[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 206 (Tuesday, October 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 57648]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27867]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management


Notice of Availability of Record of Decision

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Bureau of Land Management 
(BLM) has prepared a Record of Decision (ROD) approving the Colorado 
Sodium Products Development Project (Project), located in Rio Blanco 
County and Garfield County, Colorado. American Soda L.L.P. will be 
required to obtain the necessary federal, state, and local permits and 
approvals prior to commencing the project.

DATES: A thirty day appear period will begin October 26, 1999.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: American Soda, L.L.P. (American Soda) 
intends to construct and operate a commercial hancolite solution mining 
operation in the northcentral portion of the Piceance Creek Basin in 
Rio Blanco, County, Colorado. Nahcolite is naturally occurring sodium 
bicarbonate that is found in association with oil shale deposits. After 
the hancolite is removed from the ground, it will be processed into a 
sodium carbonate solution and transported by a 44-mile pipeline south 
to a processing operation located at an existing industrial site in the 
Parachute Valley in Garfield County, Colorado. There it will be further 
processed to commercial grade sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, and 
other sodium products which would then be shipped from the processing 
facility via a 4-mile long dedicated rail spur to an interstate rail 
connection near the town of Parachute.
    This Decision selects the Agency Preferred Alternative as described 
in the Final Environmental Statement (FEIS) which incorporates five 
monitoring plans as well as project modifications resulting from public 
comments, plus any additional changes the have occurred since the 
publication of the FEIS.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Shults, White River Field 
Office, 73544 Highway 64, Meeker, Colorado 81641, Telephone (970) 878-
3601.
Jim Cagney,
Acting Field Officer Area Manager, White River Field Office.
[FR Doc. 99-27867 Filed 10-25-99; 8:45 am]
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