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Opponents call Lewiston district engineer

Attorney Natalie Havlina of Advocates for the west, standing at right, questions ITD District Engineer Jim Carpenter, left, at a contested-case hearing in Boise on Wednesday. (Betsy Russell)
Attorney Natalie Havlina of Advocates for the west, standing at right, questions ITD District Engineer Jim Carpenter, left, at a contested-case hearing in Boise on Wednesday. (Betsy Russell)

The intervenors have now called their next witness, James Carpenter, ITD's district engineer in Lewiston. Carpenter told attorney Natalie Havlina that when he attended a meeting in Kooskia about ExxonMobil's proposed megaloads, he was asked about traffic delays. "My response was that I was unaware of the 10-minute rule," he said. "We normally use 15 minutes, because that's what we use in construction for delays on our projects."



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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