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As part of the Bowline 3 project, GenOn will seek to continue its past track record of being an active and engaged community partner. Bowline Generation Station employees currently volunteer time and provide financial support to several community causes in Rockland County. These meaningful contributions will continue to benefit local organizations whose work advances and/or promotes health, welfare, education, economic development, or other important public interests within the local community. As a brownfield development project, Bowline 3 will minimize impacts in areas typically of concern to the local community, particularly when compared to projects utilizing greenfield sites. while we continue to investigate the impact of the proposed project, at this time GenOn does not believe that adding a third generation unit to the existing Bowline facility will have negative implications; rather, the facility will be a boon to the economic development of the area and the facility will contribute to revitalization and continued improvements in the community - the goals of a smart growth policy. fInancIal Please see the response provided under the financial heading in the "Required Information"section of this document. envIRonmental Brownfield development projects such as Bowline 3, by definition, minimize impacts on the environment and the surrounding community. From an air emissions standpoint, the highly-efficient, clean, state-of-the-art combustion turbine generation technology that will be utilized by Bowline 3 will provide important environmental benefits to the surrounding region and the state of new York. Given Bowline 3’s high efficiency, GenOn anticipates that the plant will be dispatched ahead of older, less efficient, less clean generation units in the downstate region. This displacement of higher emissions units will constitute a net benefit to the region’s air quality. Bowline 3's CO2 performance will also exceed that of units it will displace. Bowline 3 will also benefit new York’s water resources. For example, we anticipate that Bowline 3 will displace the operation of once-through-cooled units in downstate new York. Adding to Bowline 3’s beneficial impact on water resources is the fact that the unit’s use of dry cooling will not require cooling water discharges and therefore will not produce aquatic ecology impacts to the Hudson River from such discharges. when the Bowline 3 site was cleared and prepared for construction, a small federal wetland (which was identified as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approval) was relocated. Beyond this, GenOn expects that any additional ecological impacts will be minimal given that the site is essentially “shovel-ready.” GenOn does not anticipate that the project will require any significant additional mitigation measures. pRoject contRact / Request foR pRoposal (Rfp) status The Bowline 3 project has not been submitted to any new York State agency or authority in response to a request for proposals (RFP). www.GEnOnBOwLInE.COm 10
puBlIc outReach and staKeholdeR enGaGement GenOn seeks to be an active and engaged partner in all of the communities across the United States where we own and operate generation assets or seek to execute development projects. As an essential component of the Bowline 3 project, GenOn will seek to identify key stakeholder groups and affected individuals. The company will also seek to develop a comprehensive public outreach and information program designed to ensure that stakeholders understand the important benefits that the project will provide to the state of new York and to the surrounding community. This program will provide ample opportunities for members of the public to ask questions and discuss concerns that they may have about the project. www.GEnOnBOwLInE.COm 11
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