My place is in So.Tx. in Duval County and I got the packet in the mail just over a year ago or so. I got involved and decided to bring a lawyer on board that deals with this stuff. One thing he mentioned to me was that the more people get involved on the line that's going thru your place the better. Im a small fry. I have just over 200 acres and was the first person to sign up to fight on the line thru my place. That lawyer then went to the other adjacent land owners along the line and made his case to fight it. The PUC factors in the cost and the least path of resistance as well. Get involved and make your case. The more resistance on your line the better. Thankfully I wasn't on the cheapest cost line but we did have a lot of resistance. My line was not chosen. I was blessed. The cost of that lawyer was around 5 or 6k in my case.

My point is, if you dont do anything, you are enabling the PUC to choose your line. At least if you get involved and get chosen, you get to fight for every last dollar you can with a good attorney. The alternative is to complain on Texags and hope and pray things work out. Ya, Im out the money. But at least there were some bigger land owners down the line that I dont know that decided to get involved when they saw others willing to fight too.

Good luck to all you landowners. If you fight and lose at least you fought for something and didnt just lay down and take it. If you dont fight, you kind of get what you get in the end.