[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 47 (Friday, March 11, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 12231]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-4729]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NV-060-3809]


Notice of Availability for the Ruby Hill Mine Expansion--East 
Archimedes Project Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

COOPERATING AGENCIES: Nevada Department of Wildlife and Eureka County.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 and the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations 
found at 40 CFR Parts 1500-1508, notice is hereby given of the 
availability of the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement 
(DSEIS) for comment, prepared by the Battle Mountain Field Office of 
the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The statement analyzes the 
environmental effects of the Proposed Action and the No Action 
Alternatives.

DATES: Written comments must be post-marked or otherwise delivered by 
4:30 p.m. (Pacific Time Zone) by no later than 45 days after the date 
of publication of this Notice in the Federal Register. Comments may 
also be submitted at public meetings to be held in Battle Mountain, NV 
and Eureka, NV. Dates of the meetings will be published in local 
newspapers.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to the Bureau of Land 
Management, attn: Caleb Hiner, Battle Mountain Field Office, 50 Bastian 
Road, Battle Mountain, Nevada 89820. Comments, including names and 
addresses of respondents, will be available for public review at the 
address listed below during regular business hours, Monday-Friday, 
excluding 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. However, we 
will not consider anonymous comments. Such requests to withhold your 
name or street address from public review will be honored to the extent 
allowed by law. All submissions from organizations or businesses, and 
from individuals identifying themselves as representatives of officials 
of organizations or businesses, will be available for public inspection 
in their entirety.
    A limited number of copies of the DSEIS may be obtained at the 
Battle Mountain BLM Field Office.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Caleb Hiner, Battle Mountain BLM at 
(775) 635-4052.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Proposed Action would develop the East 
Archimedes deposit which was defined in the original EIS (approved 
February 3, 1997) as a Reasonably Foreseeable Future Action. The 
Proposed Action would consist of an extension of the existing pit, 
expansion of the existing west and east waste rock disposal areas, the 
expansion of the existing heap leach pad, and construction of 
dewatering facilities. Under the Proposed Action, an estimated 
additional 744 acres of disturbance would occur. All disturbances 
proposed under the expansion falls within the footprint of the project 
boundary as analyzed in the original EIS.

Gerald M. Smith,
Field Manager.
[FR Doc. 05-4729 Filed 3-10-05; 8:45 am]
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