Tri-State is a wholesale power supplier serving eight electric cooperatives in Wyoming including High Plains Power, Carbon Power and Light and Big Horn Rural Electric Company. Tri-State applied for a five-year, temporary-use permit for a 288-foot access road in remote Natrona County for $250 a year. “This is an access road. I can’t guarantee what all is associated with that access road.” Meier warned of denying Tri-State access to power facilities “in this extreme drought area.”