[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 138 (Wednesday, July 19, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41042-41043]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-11462]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NV-040-5101-ER-F345; N-78803]


Notice to Reopen the Public Scoping Process for the Proposed 
Clark, Lincoln, and White Pine Counties Groundwater Development Project

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice to Reopen Scoping.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Bureau of Land Management, 
Nevada State Office, will reopen the public scoping period for the 
proposed Clark, Lincoln and White Pine Counties Groundwater Development 
to provide opportunity for comment on substantive project changes. The 
additional public scoping input will be used to prepare the Draft EIS. 
A notice of intent to prepare and EIS was published in the Federal 
Register on April 8, 2005, 70 FR 18043-18044.

DATES: The scoping public comment period will commence with the 
publication of this notice, and will end 60 days after its publication. 
Comments on the scope of the EIS, including concerns, issues, or 
proposed alternatives that should be considered in the EIS should be 
submitted in writing to the address below and will be accepted 
throughout the scoping period. The reopening scoping notice will be 
distributed to those who commented during the original scoping period 
April-August 2005. This distribution will occur by mail on or about the 
date of this notice. Information concerning the reopening of scoping 
will also appear on the Nevada BLM Web site at www.nv.blm.gov. No 
additional public scoping meetings are planned.

ADDRESSES: Please mail written comments to the BLM Nevada State Office, 
1340 Financial Boulevard, P.O. Box 12000, Reno, Nevada 89520-0006. FAX: 
775-861-6689. Comments submitted during this EIS process, including 
names and street addresses of respondents will be available for public 
review at the Nevada State Office during regular business hours 7:30 
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. Individual 
respondents may request confidentiality. If you wish to withhold your 
name and address from public review or disclosure under the Freedom of 
Information Act, you must state this prominently at the beginning of 
your comments. Such requests will be honored to the extent allowed by 
law. All submissions from organizations or businesses, and from 
individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of 
organizations or businesses, will be made available for public 
inspection in their entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information or to have 
your name added to the EIS mailing list, contact Penny Woods at the 
Nevada State Office (see address above), telephone 775-861-6466.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The proposed Clark, Lincoln, and White Pine 
Counties Groundwater Development Project (GWD) is proposed by the 
Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) and would be located in central 
and eastern Nevada in Clark, Lincoln, and White Pine Counties. The 
proposed project would develop and convey existing and proposed 
groundwater under rights authorized by the Nevada Division of Water 
Resources (Office of the State Engineer) to the Southern Nevada Water 
Authority and the Lincoln County Water District (LCWD).
    The following are the substantive project changes that have 
resulted in the BLM decision to reopen public scoping:
    1. In January 2006, SNWA and the LCWD completed an agreement under 
which the SNWA would convey existing LCWD groundwater rights from 
Spring and Lake Valleys in the SNWA pipeline system. It is anticipated 
that SNWA would convey approximately 36,000 acre feet per year for the 
LCWD. The total volume that could be conveyed by the entire system 
would be about 200,000 acre feet per year.
    2. The SNWA has withdrawn its proposal to develop groundwater from 
the Tikaboo Valley North Basin, as well as to construct the associated 
pipeline that would interconnect with the proposed mainline pipeline 
system.
    All other aspects described in the notice of intent published in 
the Federal Register on April 8, 2005, 70 FR 18043-18044, remain the 
same.
    A map of the proposed project is available for viewing at the 
Bureau of Land Management State Office at 1340 Financial Boulevard, 
Reno, Nevada, and

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the Ely Field Office, 702 North Industrial Way, Ely NV.

Amy Lueders,
Associate State Director.
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