Proposed resolution sets drainage crossing fees, repair procedures for pipeline

Dakota Access LLC officials apparently aren’t going to protest a proposed $7,500 crossing fee for each of 33 drainage facility crossings in Calhoun County, and the company has agreed to move the pipeline if a drainage facility needs to be adjusted.
Those terms are several laid out in a 17-page proposed resolution, the result of negotiations between Dakota Access officials and the Calhoun County Board of Supervisors. Pipeline officials protested an earlier resolution last month, filing an injunction to keep that previous resolution from taking effect.
The new resolution, released Sept. 23, has not been approved, but the board and pipeline officials on Sept. 22 authorized each other to share with interested parties.
Brant Leonard, an attorney working for the pipeline company, told supervisors he expected company officials to be a bit disappointed that the supervisors could not adopt the resolution at that meeting. One reason they did not, Calhoun County’s drainage attorney David Wollenzien said, was the absence of Supervisors Chairman Gary Nicholson, who had to leave the meeting early. 
Read more in the Sept. 30 edition.