[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 73 (Friday, April 16, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19992-19993]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-8780]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

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Notice of Availability of the Supplemental Draft Environmental 
Impact Statement for the Proposed Ivanpah Solar Electric Generation 
System Project, San Bernardino County, CA

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared a 
Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the 
Proposed Ivanpah Solar Electric Generation System (ISEGS) Project and 
by this notice is announcing the opening of the comment period.

DATES: To ensure that comments will be considered, the BLM must receive 
written comments on the Supplemental Draft EIS within 45 days following 
the date the Environmental Protection Agency publishes its Notice of 
Availability of this Supplemental Draft EIS in the Federal Register. 
The BLM will announce future meetings or hearings and any other public 
involvement activities at least 15 days in advance through public 
notices, media releases, and/or mailings.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on issues related to the ISEGS 
Supplemental Draft EIS by any of the following methods:
     E-mail: [email protected] Attn: ISEGS.
     Fax: (760) 326-7099 Attn: George Meckfessel, or
     Mail: George Meckfessel, Planning and Environmental 
Coordinator, Bureau of Land Management, Needles Field

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Office, 1303 South Highway 95, Needles, California 92363.
    Documents pertinent to this proposal may be examined at the Needles 
Field Office at the above address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information and/or to have 
your name added to our mailing list, contact Tom Hurshman, Project 
Manager, telephone: (970) 240-5345; address: Bureau of Land Management, 
2465 South Townsend Avenue, Montrose, Colorado 81401; e-mail: 
[email protected] Attn: Ivanpah SEGS.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Bright Source Energy has applied for a 
right-of-way grant on public land to develop a 400-megawatt solar 
thermal power plant on approximately 4,073 acres of public land 4.5 
miles south of Primm, Nevada in San Bernardino County, California. The 
BLM published a Notice of Availability of the Draft Ivanpah Solar 
Electric Generation System EIS and the Draft California Desert 
Conservation Area Plan Amendment in the Federal Register on November 
10, 2009 (74 FR 58043). The Draft EIS was available for a 90-day public 
comment period which closed on February 11, 2010. This Supplemental 
Draft EIS analyzes two additional alternatives: (1) Reducing the 
footprint of the ISEGS in order to reduce impacts to sensitive plant 
and animal species; and (2) relocating a portion of the ISEGS closer to 
the Interstate 15 corridor. The Supplemental Draft EIS also clarifies 
the BLM's purpose and need for the project. The Supplemental Draft EIS 
does not address comments received on the Draft EIS other than those 
relevant to the above listed elements of the Supplemental Draft EIS. 
Comments on the Draft EIS that refer to issues other than the two 
alternatives listed above will be addressed in the ISEGS Final EIS. The 
Supplemental Draft EIS does not propose any changes to the proposed 
plan amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area Plan as 
outlined in the ISEGS Draft EIS.
    Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or 
other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be 
aware that your entire comment --including your personal identifying 
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can 
ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying 
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be 
able to do so.

    Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6 and1506.10 and 43 CFR 1610.2.

Thomas Pogacnik,
Deputy State Director.
[FR Doc. 2010-8780 Filed 4-15-10; 8:45 am]
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