Colorado River Indian Tribes Secure Crucial Revisions to New Transmission Line Project
January 4, 2020In order to serve urban customers with solar energy generated in the Southwest desert, DCR Transmission LLC proposed building a 125-mile transmission line across parts of Arizona and California. The Firm assisted the Colorado River Indian Tribes in participating before state and federal agencies in multi-year approval proceedings. Ultimately, the Tribes secured a revised route in 2020 that avoids sensitive cultural sites in the Mule Mountains, includes enhanced tribal monitoring, avoids nearly all prehistoric archaeological resources, and includes cutting-edge mitigation measures to facilitate appropriate cultural resource treatment.