Upper Great Plains Wind Energy Programmatic EIS Documents

Documents related to the Upper Great Plains Wind Energy Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS).

The Final PEIS, the Notice of Availability, the Record of Decision, and related documents will be available for downloading and browsing when they are published.

The following documents are in PDF format, which requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Draft PEIS Notice of Availability

Notice of Availability of Upper Great Plains Wind Energy Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (DOE/EIS–0408) (214 KB)

Scoping Documents

	Summary of Public Scoping Comments for the Upper Great Plains Wind Energy Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (342 KB)
	Notice of Intent to Prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement to Evaluate Wind Energy Development in Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota; including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s landscape-level easement program in North Dakota, South Dakota, and eastern Montana; and to Conduct Public Scoping Meetings (69 KB)

Scoping Meeting Transcripts

Transcripts of the scoping meetings are provided below. More information about scoping meetings is available on the Public Meetings page.

	Sioux Falls SD, September 30, 2008 (206 KB)
	Bismarck ND, October 1, 2008 (210 KB)
	Billings MT, October 2, 2008 (152 KB)

Scoping Meeting Materials

Materials presented at the scoping meetings are provided below.

Scoping Meeting Presentation

Upper Great Plains Wind Energy PEIS Scoping Meeting Presentation (12 MB)

Scoping Meeting Posters

	Upper Great Plains Wind Energy PEIS: Proposed Action and Goals (196 KB)
	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Easement Program (227 KB)
	Wind Resources and Installed Wind Power Capacity in the United States (208 KB)
	Wind Energy Trends (170 KB)
	Wind Energy Facilities (161 KB)
	Upper Great Plains Wind Energy PEIS: Process and Schedule (154 KB)
	Upper Great Plains Wind Energy PEIS: How to Comment (179 KB)

Maps

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wetland and Grassland Easements in the Upper Great Plains Region (1.6 MB)

The following wind resource maps for the United States and each state within the Upper Great Plains Region are provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, on the Wind Powering America website.

• United States – 80 Meter Wind Map
• Iowa – 80 Meter Wind Map
• Minnesota – 80 Meter Wind Map
• Montana – 80 Meter Wind Map
• Nebraska – 80 Meter Wind Map
• North Dakota – 80 Meter Wind Map
• South Dakota – 80 Meter Wind Map

Technical Reports

The Design, Construction, and Operation of Long-Distance High-Voltage Electricity Transmission Technologies Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Technical Memorandum ANL/EVS/TM/08-4 (1.4 MB)

Other Documents

	A Citizen's Guide to the NEPA: Having Your Voice Heard (932 KB)
	DOE, NEPA, and You Brochure (1.46 MB)