John Thune's project moves ahead:
The federal Surface Transportation Board Friday reaffirmed its approval for the Dakota Minnesota and Eastern Railroad’s Powder River Basin Project.
The STB released its final supplemental environmental impact statement on the project. In it, the STB lays out only one new condition for the railroad. It requires the DM&E to do community liaison work to help towns through which the railroad’s coal trains pass to establish quiet zones if those communities choose to have them.
The DM&E’s Powder River Basin plans call for the largest new railroad construction in more than 100 years.
In addition to renovating its entire line across Minnesota and South Dakota, the DM&E plans to build more than 200 miles of new rail line south around the Black Hills, then north to Wyoming’s Powder River Basin coalfields.
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