[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 12 (Friday, January 17, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3244-3245]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-00885]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLNVSO0000 L51010000 ER0000 LVRWF13F8740.241A; MO 4500061313; 
14-08807;]


Notice to Extend Mineral Segregation for the Searchlight Wind 
Energy Project, Clark County, NV

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice serves to extend the segregation of the identified 
lands for an additional 6 months from appropriation under the public 
land laws, including location under the Mining Law, but not the Mineral 
Leasing Act or the Materials Act, subject to valid existing rights. 
This segregation extension is warranted to allow for the orderly 
administration of the public lands to facilitate the development of 
valuable renewable resources and to avoid conflicts between renewable 
energy generation and mining claims.

DATES: This segregation extension for the lands identified in this 
notice is effective on January 17, 2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gregory Helseth, Renewable Energy 
Project Manager, 702-515-5173; 4701 North Torrey Pines Drive, Las 
Vegas, NV 89130-2301; email: [email protected]. Persons who use a telecommunications 
device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay 
Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to contact the above individual during 
normal business hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a 
week, to leave a message or question with the above individual. You 
will receive a reply during normal business hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Searchlight Wind Energy, LLC (SWE), a wholly 
owned subsidiary of Duke Energy, applied to the BLM for a right-of-way 
(ROW) grant on public lands to develop a 200-megawatt (MW) wind energy 
facility. The ROW application area encompasses approximately 18,789.71 
acres of BLM-administered public lands adjacent to Searchlight, located 
approximately 60 miles southeast of Las Vegas, in Clark County, Nevada. 
The project is in conformance with the 1998 Las Vegas Resource 
Management Plan.
    Segregation of Lands: A Final Rule, published in the Federal 
Register (78 FR 25204) on April 30, 2013, amended the BLM regulations 
found in 43 CFR part 2090 and 2800 providing provisions allowing the 
BLM to temporarily segregate from the operation of the public land 
laws, by publication of a Federal Register notice, public lands 
included in a pending wind energy generation ROW application in order 
to promote the orderly administration of the public lands. The Final 
Rule for segregation allows a State Director to extend the project-
specific segregation if that segregation would expire before a decision 
can be made.
    The initial 2-year segregation would expire on January 20, 2014. 
The segregation is necessary to prevent the filing of mining claims in 
the project area that would hinder the development of the project and 
increase costs to the development of the project. This temporary 
segregation extension does not affect valid existing rights in mining 
claims located before this segregation notice. Licenses, permits, 
cooperative agreements, or discretionary land use authorizations of a 
temporary nature which would not impact lands identified in this notice 
may be allowed with the approval of an authorized officer of the BLM 
during the segregative period. The lands segregated under this notice 
are legally described as follows:

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Mount Diablo Meridian

T. 28 S., R. 63 E.,
    Sec. 22, that portion of the E\1/2\SE\1/4\ lying east of the 
easterly right-of-way of S.R. 95 NVCC-020733;
    Sec. 23, that portion lying east of the easterly right-of-way of 
S.R. 95 NVCC-020733, excepting Patent No. 27-72-0013, and patented 
mineral surveys;
    Sec. 24, excepting patented mineral surveys;
    Sec. 25, excepting patented mineral surveys;
    Sec. 26, excepting patented mineral surveys;
    Sec. 27, those portions of lots 1, 8, 9, 10, 14, and 15 lying 
east of the easterly right-of-way of S.R. 95 NVCC-020733.
T. 29 S., R. 63 E.,
    Sec. 1;
    Sec. 11, that portion lying east of airport leases NEV-065340 
and N-81843;
    Sec. 13;
    Sec. 14, that portion lying east of the easterly right-of-way of 
S.R. 95 NVCC-020845, excepting airport lease NEV-065340;
    Sec. 24, that portion lying east of the easterly right-of-way of 
S.R. 95 NVCC-020845;
    Sec. 25, that portion lying east of the easterly right-of-way of 
S.R. 95 NVCC-020845.
T. 28 S., R. 64 E.,
    Secs. 19 and 20;
    Sec. 26, those portions of the N\1/2\NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, N\1/2\NW\1/
4\SW\1/4\, and W\1/2\NW\1/4\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, lying north of the 
northerly right-of-way of Cottonwood Cove Road;
Secs. 27 and 28;
    Sec. 29, excepting patented mineral surveys;
    Sec. 30, excepting patented mineral surveys;
    Sec. 31, excepting patented mineral surveys;
    Sec. 32, excepting patented mineral surveys;
    Secs. 33 and 34.
T. 29 S., R. 64 E.,
    Sec. 4;
    Sec. 5, excepting patented mineral surveys;
    Secs. 6 to 8 inclusive, 17 to 20 inclusive, and 29 and 30.

    The area described contains 18,789.71 acres, more or less, in Clark 
County, Nevada. The segregation extension of lands identified in this 
notice will not exceed 6 months from the date of publication. 
Termination of the segregation, as provided in the Final Rule, is the 
date that is the earliest of the following: Upon issuance of a decision 
by the authorized officer granting, granting with modifications, or 
denying the application for a ROW; automatically at the end of the six 
month segregation; or upon publication of a Federal Register notice of 
termination of the segregation.
    Upon termination of segregation of these lands, all lands subject 
to this segregation will automatically reopen to appropriation under 
the public land laws.

    (Authority: 43 CFR 2800 and 2090).

Amy Lueders,
State Director.
[FR Doc. 2014-00885 Filed 1-16-14; 8:45 am]
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