[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 37 (Friday, February 25, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9378-9379]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3630]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NV-020-1990-EX]


Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement 
(EIS) and To Initiate the Public Scoping Process

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management; Interior.

ACTION: Notice of intent.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2) (c) of the National Environmental 
PolicyAct (NEPA) of 1969, and the Federal Land Policy and Management 
Act (FLPMA) of 1976, notice is hereby given that the Winnemucca Field 
Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is initiating the 
preparation of an EIS to analyze a proposed silver and gold mine 
expansion, closure, and reclamation plan as proposed by Coeur 
Rochester, Inc. (CRI), in Plan of Operations Amendment 7 for the Coeur 
Rochester Mine, located in Pershing County, Nevada.

DATES: The public scoping period will commence with the publication of 
this notice and will end 30 days after publication. Public meetings 
will be announced through the local news media, and a BLM Web site at 
least 15 days prior to the event. Comments should be received on or 
before the end of the scoping period at the address listed below.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to the Winnemucca Field 
Office, Bureau of Land Management, 5100 East Winnemucca Blvd., 
Winnemucca, Nevada 89445, via fax at (775) 623-1503 or online at: 
http://www.nv.blm.gov/winnemucca. Comments, including names and 
addresses of respondents will be available for public review at the

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BLM WFO, during regular hours 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, 
except holidays. Individual respondents may request confidentiality. If 
you wish to withhold your name or street address from public review or 
from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, you must state 
this prominently at the beginning of your written comment. Such 
requests will be honored to the extent of the law. All submissions from 
organizations and businesses, and from individuals identifying 
themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or 
businesses, will be available for public inspection in their entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information and/or to have 
your name added to our mailing list, contact Lynn Harrison or Sharlet 
Berentsen, telephone (775) 623-1500.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Coeur Rochester, Inc., operates the 
Rochester Mine located on private and public lands in the south-central 
portion of the Humboldt Range in northwestern Nevada. CRI also operates 
a satellite deposit known as the Nevada Packard Mine located 
immediately southwest of the Rochester Mine. The original mine plan 
plus numerous modifications were analyzed in various environmental 
assessments. The proposal would include 103 acres of new disturbance 
and 1,817.4 acres of reclamation. Currently, the mine is approved to 
disturb approximately 1,704 acres. In November 2003, Coeur Rochester, 
Inc., submitted a Plan of Operation modification referred to as 
Amendment 7. As proposed in Amendment 7, the plan would disturb an 
additional 103 acres and would include expansion and deepening of the 
existing Rochester Open Pit, a heap leach pad facility 30-feet height 
increase, alteration of existing haul roads and a new heap leach pad 
facility. Amendment 7 also included proposed closure and reclamation 
activities, including potential for a pit lake, heap leach pad closure, 
waste rock facility closure, re-evaluation of an existing waste rock 
management plan, and final closure descriptions for all other 
facilities.

    Dated: January 11, 2005.
Vicki L. Wood,
Acting Field Manager.
[FR Doc. 05-3630 Filed 2-24-05; 8:45 am]
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