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it is often likely that the exclusion of land acquisition, environmental regs and expenses such as local regulatory and municipal adminiatrative costs and the lawyers that bill for this work actually puts the question on such a hypothetical basis that it is almost irrelevant to a real life decision. the recent push for new ethanol plants in corn production areas creates community issues which take months or years of haggling among factions representing growth/no growth citizens groups over every single issue involved. this bargaining is very much concerned with the traffic effects surrounding increased vechicle traffic from trucks and every imaginable aspect of how ROW will impact the townships from noise levels to saftey and estetics. How a community will treat the "permit process" has more to do with the project than the particular community's economic attractiveness. <br />i do not mean to down play the legitimate interest in the cost of track and road bed, but feel that it is worth noting that the inclusion of ancillary costs may not be a matter of raising per mile cost by 10% or 20% but rather "paperwork" may well amount to the greatest portion of the project in terms of dollars and cents as well as time to completion.
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