[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 164 (Thursday, August 24, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44041-44042]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-20958]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[CA-060-5101-10-B016,CACA 27497]


Notice of Availability of the Supplemental Final Cajon Pipeline 
Environmental Impact Statement

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 202 of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969, the Bureau of Land Management, California Desert 
District, has prepared a Supplemental Final Environmental Impact 
Statement (EIS) for a proposed revision to the previously approved 
Cajon Pipeline Project. This Supplemental Final EIS describes the 
Project and summarizes the impacts, as previously approved, and 
analyzes the changes in those impacts resulting from the proposed 
revisions to the Project. This Project, as revised, will traverse both 
Federal and private lands in San Bernardino County, California.

DATES: Written comments will be accepted until September 25, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to the District Manager, 
Bureau of Land Management, 6221 Box Springs Blvd., Riverside, CA 92507-
0714, ATTN: Cajon Pipeline Project.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stephen L. Johnson, Special Projects Manager, California Desert 
District Office, 6221 Box Springs Blvd, Riverside, CA 92507-0714; phone 
(909) 697-5233.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Discoveries in the Santa Barbara Channel off 
the coast of California along the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and on-
shore through thermal enhanced oil recovery in the San Joaquin Valley 
(SJV) have yielded significant new reserves of heavy, high sulphur 
crude oil. As a result of these discoveries and the desire of producers 
to transport this heavy crude to the Los Angeles Basin refineries, a 
heated pipeline system capable of handling this crude in its ``neat'' 
state is being considered. Existing pipelines do not have the capacity 
to handle the anticipated volume. In addition, heavy crude requires the 
addition of heat to allow it to be efficiently pumped through 
pipelines, and no heated common carrier pipeline exists today into the 
Los Angeles Basin.
    To connect the producers and refiners, the Cajon Pipeline Company 
has been granted a permit to build a 142-mile-long, 20-inch diameter 
insulated buried pipeline from 12-Gauge Lake (27 miles west of 
Barstow), California, to the Los Angeles crude oil terminals in Carson 
and Long Beach. The Final EIS (June, 1993) for the Cajon Pipeline 
Project includes an analysis of the environmental impacts of the 
proposed pipeline system during construction and operation. The Cajon 
Pipeline Company is now intending to amend the approved project by 
constructing a much shorter pipeline. Following the original route from 
12-Gauge Lake to the City of Adelanto. Within the vicinity of Adelanto 
two minor realignments are proposed to provide increased separation 
between the pipeline and two new schools; Adelanto Middle School and 
Quail Valley Middle School. The remainder follows the original route 
through the Cajon Pass and on into the Los Angeles Basin but the Cajon 
Pipeline Company now proposes to terminate their pipeline in the City 
of Rancho Cucamonga. This would be Company now proposes to terminate 
their pipeline in the City of Rancho Cucamonga. This would be with a 
tie-in to the existing Edison Pipeline and Terminal Company's (EPTC) 
system at Edison's Etiwanda Generating System and from there the 
existing EPTC Pipeline would be used to transport the crude oil to the 
various refineries and terminals near the coast.
    This Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for 
the proposed evaluating those changes to the Cajon Pipeline Project has 
been prepared in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act 
(NEPA). The Bureau of Land Management's preferred alternative is to 
accept the proposed changes to the approved Project, as proposed and 

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described in the Supplemental Final EIS.
    Since the Final EIS was completed in June of 1993, Executive Order 
12898, entitled Executive Order on Federal Actions to Address 
Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income 
Populations, has been issued. In compliance with Executive Order 12898 
a section entitled Environmental Justice has now been added and 
included in the Supplemental Final EIS for the Cajon Pipeline Project.

    Dated: August 17, 1995.
Henri R. Bisson,
District Manager.
[FR Doc. 95-20958 Filed 8-23-95; 8:45 am]
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