[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 110 (Wednesday, June 8, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33270-33271]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-14066]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy


Cancellation of the Notice of Intent To Prepare a Programmatic 
Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Geothermal Development 
Program, Naval Air Facility El Centro, Imperial County, CA

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy (DoN) announces the cancellation of 
its Notice of Intent to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact 
Statement (PEIS) for the proposed Geothermal Development Program, Naval 
Air Facility El Centro, Imperial County, CA, as published in the 
Federal Register, May 5, 2008 (73 FR 87). It has been determined that 
preparation of a PEIS is not appropriate at this time when considering 
the current project scale and stage of geothermal energy development at 
Superstition Mountain on Naval Air Facility El Centro. The DoN will 
develop an internal document known as an environmental and operational 
feasibility study. This internal document will analyze the 
environmental and operational framework within which a geothermal 
development may proceed and will provide the DoN with information 
required to determine the DoN's geothermal energy program needs at 
Naval Air Facility El Centro. Should geothermal development be 
indicated as feasible and a project to be developed, the appropriate 
level of National Environmental Policy Act analysis and process will be 
performed.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Bjornstad, United States Navy 
Geothermal Program Office (PW-8), Naval Air Weapons Station, 429 East 
Bowen Road, Mail Stop 4011, China Lake, CA 93555-6108, telephone: 760-
939-4048, e-mail: [email protected].


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    Dated: June 1, 2011.
D. J. Werner,
Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy, 
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-14066 Filed 6-7-11; 8:45 am]
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