YOUNGSTOWN — A FirstEnergy subsidiary will have a second public open house June 4 on its revised 6-mile power line project with plans to file an application for approval by the Ohio Power Siting Board within 90 days of that meeting.

The initial plan for a high-tension line through downtown Youngstown was rejected in May 2022 by the siting board after objections from city officials and about 300 local residents about its location.

American Transmission Systems Inc., the FirstEnergy subsidiary, redesigned and proposed the relocation of the power line after that.

This updated 6-mile, 138-kilovolt project would still connect the Riverbend and Lincoln Park substations, going through sections of Youngstown and Campbell, and expand the Riverbend substation to install new equipment.

FirstEnergy officials provided information about the project to a Youngstown City Council committee in April 2023.

It will have an open house for the public to look at the proposal and provide feedback.

The open house is from 6 to 8 p.m. June 4 at the Tyler History Center, 325 W. Federal St.

There will be no formal presentation, but the public can learn more about the project.

A similar open house took place June 12, 2024, at Tyler.

Lauren Siburkis, a FirstEnergy senior representative of transmission and policy communications, said the June 4 meeting would be the last “for this project. We will file our application with the Siting Board within 90 days following the meeting.”

City officials have said they are pleased FirstEnergy listened to concerns and redesigned the project.

The main objection to the first proposal was the 5.2-mile line — which would have included high-tension power lines — would have been parallel to the north side of the Mahoning River, going behind the Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre, through Wean Park, over the Market Street Bridge and behind the Covelli Centre in downtown Youngstown.

There were going to be five to seven utility towers with the two tallest being 140 feet and adjacent to the Market Street Bridge. The others would have been about 100 to 115 feet tall.

The updated proposal would still need one steel power line pole on either side of the Peace Officers Memorial Bridge on South Avenue that crosses the Mahoning River. Those two poles would be about 100 feet high.

The rest of the lines would largely be on steel poles, about 70 to 80 feet high, south of the Mahoning River along roads including Woodland Avenue, Poland Avenue, Center Street to the city’s East Side before ending at the Lincoln Park substation in Campbell.

If approved, the project would take more than a year to complete.

The project would upgrade the Riverbend substation to a more advanced design to help decrease the frequency and duration of power outages. It would also upgrade the Lincoln Park station to accommodate the new line, according to FirstEnergy.

It would help about 15,000 residential customers as well as St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, Youngstown State University and several commercial and industrial facilities, according to FirstEnergy.