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Vantage to Pomona Heights Chapter 4
<br />230 kV Transmission Line Project FEIS Environmental Consequences
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<br />BLOCK GROUP ACTION ALTERNATIVES
<br />TOTAL BELOW POVERTY LEVEL BELOW 1.5 TIMES POVERTY LEVEL BELOW TWICE POVERTY LEVEL
<br /># # % # % # %
<br />Block Group 1,
<br />Census Tract 6,
<br />Yakima County
<br />A, B, C, D, E, F,
<br />G, H, NNR - MR
<br />Subroute
<br />1,305 631 48.4 896 68.7 1,007 77.2
<br />Block Group 2,
<br />Census Tract 6,
<br />Yakima County
<br />A, B, C, D, E, F,
<br />G, H, NNR - MR
<br />Subroute
<br />2,319 1,068 46.1 1,439 62.1 1,708 73.7
<br />Block Group 1,
<br />Census Tract 2,
<br />Yakima County
<br />A, B, C, D, E, F,
<br />G, H, NNR - MR
<br />Subroute
<br />2,512 1,053 41.9 1,755 69.9 1,988 79.1
<br />Block Group 3,
<br />Census Tract 2,
<br />Yakima County
<br />A, B, C, D, E, F,
<br />G, H, NNR - MR
<br />Subroute
<br />1,358 501 36.9 665 49.0 852 62.7
<br />Block Group 2,
<br />Census Tract 2,
<br />Yakima County
<br />A, B, C, D, E, F,
<br />G, H, NNR - MR
<br />Subroute
<br />1,395 480 34.4 765 54.8 826 59.2
<br />Block Group 1,
<br />Census Tract 9814,
<br />Grant County
<br />A, B, C, D, E, F,
<br />G, H, NNR - MR
<br />Subroute
<br />1,234 422 34.2 747 60.5 927 75.1
<br />Block Group 4,
<br />Census Tract 9814,
<br />Grant County
<br />A, B, C, D, E, F,
<br />G, H, 5,515 1,198 21.7 2,946 53.4 3,455 62.6
<br />FOUR-COUNTY PROJECT STUDY AREA 464,966 76,518 16.5 129,456 27.8 176,489 38.0
<br />Source: U.S. Census 2000
<br />Nine Census Block Groups were included under these criteria. These Block Groups are similar to those
<br />identified under the race and ethnicity analysis. However, it should be noted that the two Block Groups
<br />identified in Grant County in Table 4.10-2, which is from the 2000 Census, were renamed and redrawn
<br />prior to the 2010 Census from which the race and ethnicity analysis data were collected. Block Group 1,
<br />Census Tract 9814 in Grant County is equivalent to Block Group 4, Census Tract 114.02 in Table 4.10-1.
<br />Block Group 4, Census Tract 9814 in Grant County is equivalent to the combination of Block Groups 1
<br />and 3, Census Tract 114.02 in Table 4.10-1. Block Group 1 Census Tract 188, Benton County was the
<br />only Block Group to meet the threshold in the race and ethnicity analysis, but not in the low income
<br />analysis. Block Group 1, Census Tract 1, Yakima County was the only Block Group to meet the threshold
<br />in the low income analysis, but not in the race and ethnicity analysis.
<br />Having identified the potentially affected Block Groups, the populations within each Block Group were
<br />examined in greater detail. The result was that, with a few exceptions, there were no appreciable low-
<br />income communities within one mile of the Action Alternatives. The exceptions were the small
<br />incorporated community of Beverly in Grant County, which is located about one mile from Route
<br />Segments 3b and 3c which are a part of all Action Alternatives except the NNR Alternative with or
<br />without the MR Subroute. Although Beverly had a high proportion of low-income persons in 1999, the
<br />absolute number was very small (under 50 persons). At the Pomona Heights Substation, all Action
<br />Alternatives approach the Substation from the east. There are no low-income populations due east of the
<br />Pomona Heights Substation. To the west of the Pomona Heights Substation, an appreciable population is
<br />no closer than a mile, with the city boundary for Selah approximately one mile away. There are no
<br />appreciable low-income communities within three miles of the NNR Alternative with or without the MR
<br />Subroute.
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