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1 ROUTE PERNIIT The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (Commission) hereby issues this route permit to Xcel Energy (permittee) pursuant to Minnesota Statute 216E.03 and Minnesota Rules 7850. This permit authorizes the permittee to construct approximately 4.7 miles of new 115 kV transmission line and associated facilities in Benton County, Minnesota and as identified in the attached route permit maps, hereby incorporated into this document. 2 PROJECT DESCRIPTION The permittee is authorized to construct a project comprising a 4.7-mile transmission line and as described in the route permit application and evaluated in the environmental assessment. The approved route is shown on the route permit maps attached to this permit and further designated as described. The project consists of a new 4.7-mile long 115 kV transmission line and is divided into two segments. The first segment (new Line 5520) is approximately 4 miles long and will be constructed between the Mayhew Lake Substation and the Granite City Substation. The second segment (extension of existing Line 5509) is approximately 0.7 miles long and will be constructed between the intersection of Line 5509 with Lines 0887 and 0899 and Structure 39. The permitee may construct, modify, and upgrade the following for the project: • construct approximately 4 miles of new 115 kV transmission line (Line 5520) between the Mayhew Lake Substation and the Granite City Substation; • remove a 1,700 foot segment of existing single -circuit 115 kV transmission line (Line 5509) between the Granite City Substation and its intersection with Lines 0887 and 0899; • install approximately 0.7 miles of new 115 kV transmission line to extend existing Line 5509 from its intersection with Lines 0887 and 0899 to Structure 39, install either a new single -circuit pole or a new double -circuit structure near Structure 39 and connect Line 5509 from Structure 39 to existing Line 0899, thus creating newly designated Line 5509 connecting the Mayhew Lake Substation to the Benton County Substation; • remove existing Line 0887 jumper at Structure 39 so that Line 0887 is no longer connected to Benton County Substation, and keeping Line 0887 connection between the St. Cloud and Granite City substations; • disconnect the existing Line 0899 at Structure 39 to the Benton County Substation and connecting to removed Line 0887 segment from Structure 39 to Benton County Substation, and designating this revised line from Granite City to Benton County substations as Line 0899; • install fiber optic ground wire with the new 115 kV line and the remaining segment of Line 0899; and November 2010 Page 1 4