Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Moapa Cement Plant, Limestone Quarry and Associated Facilities, Moapa Indian Reservation, Clark County, NV, 8607-8608 [05-3238]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Proposed Moapa Cement Plant,
Limestone Quarry and Associated
Facilities, Moapa Indian Reservation,
Clark County, NV
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice advises the public
that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA),
in cooperation with the Moapa Band of
Paiute Indians (Tribe), Bureau of Land
Management (BLM), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers (ACOE), and Ash
Grove Cement Company (Ash Grove),
will be gathering information needed for
the preparation of an Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) and permits that
may be issued by individual regulatory
agencies. The information included in
the EIS will be used to support the
approval of multiple leases, right-of-way
easements, special use permits, and/or
other agreements between the Tribe and
Ash Grove for the construction,
operation, and maintenance of a
proposed cement plant, a limestone
quarry, other raw material extraction
site(s) and infrastructure on the Moapa
River Indian Reservation (Reservation)
in Clark County, Nevada. The purpose
and need for this proposed project is to
provide an economic development
opportunity for the Tribe, to provide a
new source of cement in the
southwestern United States, and to
address the growing demand for cement
in the United States. This notice also
announces public scoping meetings to
identify potential issues and alternatives
for inclusion in the EIS.
DATES: Written comments on the scope
and implementation of this proposal
must arrive by March 23, 2005. The
public scoping meetings will be held
March 9 and 10, 2005, from 6 p.m. to
8 p.m.
ADDRESSES: You may mail, hand carry
or telefax written comments to (1) Amy
L. Heuslein, Regional Environmental
Protection Officer, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, Western Regional Office, P.O.
Box 10, Phoenix, Arizona 85001, 400
North Fifth Street, Phoenix, Arizona
85004, Telefax (602) 379–3833; or (2)
Kellie Youngbear, Agency
Superintendent, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, Southern Paiute Agency, 180
North 200 East, St. George, Utah 84771,
Telefax (435) 674–9714.
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The March 9, 2005, public scoping
meeting will be held at the Moapa
Tribal Hall, Number 1 Lincoln Street,
Moapa River Indian Reservation,
Moapa, Nevada. The March 10, 2005,
meeting will be held at the BLM Field
Office, 4701 North Torrey Pines Drive,
Las Vegas, Nevada.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Amy Heuslein, (602) 379–6750, or Paul
Schlafly, (435) 674–9720.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EIS
will assess the environmental
consequences of BIA, BLM, EPA, ACOE
and Tribal approval of the proposed
long-term leases, right-of-way
easements, special use permits and/or
other agreements collectively involved
in the development of a maximum of
2,200 acres of Reservation lands,
encompassing all of the proposed
project components described below.
The proposed project area is located in
the southern portion of the Reservation,
in Township 16 South, Range 64 East
and Township 16 South, Range 65 East
in Clark County, approximately 35 miles
northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. Ash
Grove intends to construct, operate, and
maintain the proposed project on the
Reservation for a period of 75 years.
The proposed cement plant would be
constructed within a footprint
encompassing approximately 160 acres
(‘‘plant site’’), and have a production
capacity of approximately 1.5 to 2.0
million tons of cement per year.
Components of the cement production
process include a quarry, grinding mills,
unloading and storage areas, a kiln feed
system, a 500 foot tall pre-heater tower,
and a clinker and cement cooling
system. A core building on the proposed
plant site would include a control room,
offices, maintenance shops and an
equipment fueling station. The
proposed quarry location would include
a small office, a maintenance shop
building and an equipment fueling
station.
Fuel for plant components would
principally be coal, possibly augmented
by natural gas, oil/used oil, tire derived
fuel and/or petroleum coke. Fuel would
be shipped to the site via rail or truck.
Natural gas would be supplied by
buried pipeline from the existing Kern
River Gas transmission pipeline, which
is located in the Utility Right-of-Way
through the Reservation. Coal, liquid
fuels, raw materials, in-process
materials and final product would be
stored on the proposed plant site in
silos, aboveground storage tanks or
other enclosed structures. Electricity for
the plant would be supplied by an
overhead power line that would be
constructed from either the Crystal
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Substation located approximately onehalf mile to the south of the Reservation
boundary, the Tortoise Substation
located near the Reid Gardner power
plant, or other source(s).
A total of approximately 500 acre-feet
per year of water would be used in the
manufacturing process and for dust
control in the proposed project. The
water would be supplied from the
Tribe’s groundwater or surface water
rights, or if sufficient tribal water is not
available, acquired from yet to be
identified non-tribal sources off of the
Reservation. Water would be
transported by construction of a new
pipeline to the proposed plant site,
quarry, and/or other locations as
required for dust control, and stored in
aboveground tanks.
A new paved service road and
railroad underpass would be
constructed to provide access from the
plant site to one of three Interstate 15
interchanges: the Crystal—Interstate 15
Interchange; the Apex—Interstate 15
Interchange; or the Ute—Interstate 15
Interchange. A railroad siding and loop
track would be constructed to provide
access to the Union Pacific railroad line.
The various Portland cement products
manufactured in this proposed plant
would be loaded in trucks and rail cars
on the plant site for shipment to
customers via Interstate 15 and the
Union Pacific Railroad.
The quarry where drilling and
blasting for limestone would occur
would be developed in the Arrow
Canyon Range on Reservation lands,
involving approximately 1,300 acres in
Sections 5, 6, 7, and 8 of Township 16
South, Range 64 East. The quarried
limestone would be crushed and
delivered to the proposed cement plant
site by belt conveyor, where it would be
stored in an enclosed structure. Other
additives or materials used in the
cement manufacturing process would be
delivered to the proposed plant site by
truck or railroad and stored in enclosed
structures. These materials mainly
include coal, iron, silica, clay, alumina
source and gypsum. Some additives or
materials may be extracted from areas
located on the Reservation, but if so,
would be subject to separate leases or
special use permits.
The proposed cement plant is
expected to generate limited amounts of
hazardous waste per month from
maintenance and laboratory activity,
thus would be classified as a
Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity
Generator. Any hazardous wastes
generated would be inventoried and
disposed of appropriately at an
approved off-reservation hazardous
waste recycling or disposal facility. In
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this and in all other respects, the
proposed cement plant project would
meet or exceed all federal, state and/or
tribal criteria under applicable law.
Significant issues to be addressed in
the EIS include, but are not limited to
air quality, geology and soils, surface
and groundwater resources, biological
resources including threatened and
endangered species, cultural resources,
socioeconomic conditions, land use,
aesthetics or visual resources,
environmental justice, and Indian trust
resources. The range of issues and
alternatives to be addressed in the EIS
may be expanded or reduced, based on
comments received in response to this
notice and at the public scoping
meetings.
Public Comment Availability
Comments, including names and
addresses of respondents, will be
available for public review at the BIA
address shown in the ADDRESSES
section, during business hours, 8 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except holidays. Individual respondents
may request confidentiality. If you wish
us to withhold your name and/or
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. Such requests will be
honored to the extent allowed by the
law. We will not, however, consider
anonymous comments. 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.
Authority
This notice is published in
accordance with section 1503.1 of the
Council of Environmental Quality
Regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500 through
1508) implementing the procedural
requirements of the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 4371 et seq.),
Department of the Interior Manual (516
DM 1–6), and is in the exercise of
authority delegated to the Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary—Indian
Affairs by 209 DM 8.1.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Indian Gaming
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of approved Tribal—
State Class III Gaming Compact.
AGENCY:
This notice publishes the
approval of the Tribal—State Compact
between the Winnebago Tribe of
Nebraska and the State of Iowa.
EFFECTIVE DATE: February 22, 2005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
George T. Skibine, Director, Office of
Indian Gaming Management, Office of
the Deputy Assistant Secretary—Policy
and Economic Development,
Washington, DC 20240, (202) 219–4066.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under
Section 11 of the Indian Gaming
Regulatory Act of 1988 (IGRA), Public
Law 100–497, 25 U.S.C. 2710, the
Secretary of the Interior shall publish in
the Federal Register notice of approved
Tribal-State compacts for the purpose of
engaging in Class III gaming activities
on Indian lands. This Compact
authorizes gaming conducted in
accordance with IGRA and Iowa State
law and clarifies the regulatory scheme.
SUMMARY:
Dated: February 9, 2005.
Michael D. Olsen,
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—
Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 05–3227 Filed 2–18–05; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[CO–100–04–1990–00]
Emergency Route Restriction Order
Within the Upper Hughes Creek
Allotment (#4410), Moffat County, CO
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of emergency closure.
AGENCY:
Dated: February 10, 2005.
Michael D. Olsen,
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—
Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 05–3238 Filed 2–18–05; 8:45 am]
SUMMARY: This order closes two
unauthorized construction routes on
public lands to motorized use in the
areas within the Upper Hughes Creek
Allotment, Moffat County, Colorado.
This order does not modify the current
Off Highway Vehicle (OHV)
classification of ‘‘open’’ in this area. The
order is an emergency measure that
prohibits the use of any motorized
wheeled vehicles on the identified
routes.
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EFFECTIVE DATE:
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Maps of the trespass roads
will be available at the Little Snake
Field Office, 455 Emerson Street, Craig,
Colorado.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
E. Husband, Field Manager, Little Snake
Field Office, 455 Emerson Street, Craig,
Colorado 81625; Telephone (970) 826–
5000.
ADDRESSES:
This order
is issued under the authority of 43 CFR
8341.2, 43 CFR 8364.1, and 43 CFR
9268.3(d)(1) as an emergency measure.
This action qualifies as a Categorical
Exclusion under 516 DM 6, Appendix
5.4, Number: _G_.(_3_) and has been
considered in Categorical Exclusion
CO–100–2005–001CX, which was
signed on December 9, 2004. Further
investigation is proceeding and plans
for reclamation of damaged resources
are being developed.
This order affects public lands in
Moffat County, Colorado, thus
described:
(1) Public Lands within: T.4N.,
R.96W., Sections 15 and 22, Sixth
Principal Meridian;
(2) Approximately: 3 acres of public
lands.
This restriction order shall be
effective on February 22, 2005, and shall
remain in effect until resource
reclamation objectives have been
achieved and the order is then
rescinded by the Authorized Officer.
During the summer of 2004, an
unknown person used heavy
construction equipment to widen an
existing trail and build a new route on
public lands that accommodates full
size pickup truck vehicle use. Use of
these routes by wheeled motorized
vehicles has the potential to cause
considerable adverse effects to soil,
water, and cultural resources.
The designated area affected by this
order will be posted with appropriate
regulatory signs. Persons who are
exempt from restriction contained in
this notice include:
1. Any Federal, State, or local officers
engaged in fire, emergency, and law
enforcement activities.
2. Persons or agencies holding a
special use permit or right-of-way for
access to exercise their permit within
the restricted area, for purposes related
to access for maintenance and operation
of authorized facilities, and provided
such motorized use is limited to the
routes specifically identified in the
special use permit or right-of-way.
3. Grazing permittees holding a valid
grazing permit for the restricted area.
Such permittees will contact the
Authorized Officer, when possible, prior
to motorized vehicle use of the route(s)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for
the Proposed Moapa Cement Plant, Limestone Quarry and Associated
Facilities, Moapa Indian Reservation, Clark County, NV
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice advises the public that the Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA), in cooperation with the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians
(Tribe), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE), and Ash Grove Cement
Company (Ash Grove), will be gathering information needed for the
preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and permits that
may be issued by individual regulatory agencies. The information
included in the EIS will be used to support the approval of multiple
leases, right-of-way easements, special use permits, and/or other
agreements between the Tribe and Ash Grove for the construction,
operation, and maintenance of a proposed cement plant, a limestone
quarry, other raw material extraction site(s) and infrastructure on the
Moapa River Indian Reservation (Reservation) in Clark County, Nevada.
The purpose and need for this proposed project is to provide an
economic development opportunity for the Tribe, to provide a new source
of cement in the southwestern United States, and to address the growing
demand for cement in the United States. This notice also announces
public scoping meetings to identify potential issues and alternatives
for inclusion in the EIS.
DATES: Written comments on the scope and implementation of this
proposal must arrive by March 23, 2005. The public scoping meetings
will be held March 9 and 10, 2005, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
ADDRESSES: You may mail, hand carry or telefax written comments to (1)
Amy L. Heuslein, Regional Environmental Protection Officer, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Western Regional Office, P.O. Box 10, Phoenix, Arizona
85001, 400 North Fifth Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85004, Telefax (602)
379-3833; or (2) Kellie Youngbear, Agency Superintendent, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Southern Paiute Agency, 180 North 200 East, St. George,
Utah 84771, Telefax (435) 674-9714.
The March 9, 2005, public scoping meeting will be held at the Moapa
Tribal Hall, Number 1 Lincoln Street, Moapa River Indian Reservation,
Moapa, Nevada. The March 10, 2005, meeting will be held at the BLM
Field Office, 4701 North Torrey Pines Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amy Heuslein, (602) 379-6750, or Paul
Schlafly, (435) 674-9720.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EIS will assess the environmental
consequences of BIA, BLM, EPA, ACOE and Tribal approval of the proposed
long-term leases, right-of-way easements, special use permits and/or
other agreements collectively involved in the development of a maximum
of 2,200 acres of Reservation lands, encompassing all of the proposed
project components described below. The proposed project area is
located in the southern portion of the Reservation, in Township 16
South, Range 64 East and Township 16 South, Range 65 East in Clark
County, approximately 35 miles northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. Ash
Grove intends to construct, operate, and maintain the proposed project
on the Reservation for a period of 75 years.
The proposed cement plant would be constructed within a footprint
encompassing approximately 160 acres (``plant site''), and have a
production capacity of approximately 1.5 to 2.0 million tons of cement
per year. Components of the cement production process include a quarry,
grinding mills, unloading and storage areas, a kiln feed system, a 500
foot tall pre-heater tower, and a clinker and cement cooling system. A
core building on the proposed plant site would include a control room,
offices, maintenance shops and an equipment fueling station. The
proposed quarry location would include a small office, a maintenance
shop building and an equipment fueling station.
Fuel for plant components would principally be coal, possibly
augmented by natural gas, oil/used oil, tire derived fuel and/or
petroleum coke. Fuel would be shipped to the site via rail or truck.
Natural gas would be supplied by buried pipeline from the existing Kern
River Gas transmission pipeline, which is located in the Utility Right-
of-Way through the Reservation. Coal, liquid fuels, raw materials, in-
process materials and final product would be stored on the proposed
plant site in silos, aboveground storage tanks or other enclosed
structures. Electricity for the plant would be supplied by an overhead
power line that would be constructed from either the Crystal Substation
located approximately one-half mile to the south of the Reservation
boundary, the Tortoise Substation located near the Reid Gardner power
plant, or other source(s).
A total of approximately 500 acre-feet per year of water would be
used in the manufacturing process and for dust control in the proposed
project. The water would be supplied from the Tribe's groundwater or
surface water rights, or if sufficient tribal water is not available,
acquired from yet to be identified non-tribal sources off of the
Reservation. Water would be transported by construction of a new
pipeline to the proposed plant site, quarry, and/or other locations as
required for dust control, and stored in aboveground tanks.
A new paved service road and railroad underpass would be
constructed to provide access from the plant site to one of three
Interstate 15 interchanges: the Crystal--Interstate 15 Interchange; the
Apex--Interstate 15 Interchange; or the Ute--Interstate 15 Interchange.
A railroad siding and loop track would be constructed to provide access
to the Union Pacific railroad line. The various Portland cement
products manufactured in this proposed plant would be loaded in trucks
and rail cars on the plant site for shipment to customers via
Interstate 15 and the Union Pacific Railroad.
The quarry where drilling and blasting for limestone would occur
would be developed in the Arrow Canyon Range on Reservation lands,
involving approximately 1,300 acres in Sections 5, 6, 7, and 8 of
Township 16 South, Range 64 East. The quarried limestone would be
crushed and delivered to the proposed cement plant site by belt
conveyor, where it would be stored in an enclosed structure. Other
additives or materials used in the cement manufacturing process would
be delivered to the proposed plant site by truck or railroad and stored
in enclosed structures. These materials mainly include coal, iron,
silica, clay, alumina source and gypsum. Some additives or materials
may be extracted from areas located on the Reservation, but if so,
would be subject to separate leases or special use permits.
The proposed cement plant is expected to generate limited amounts
of hazardous waste per month from maintenance and laboratory activity,
thus would be classified as a Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity
Generator. Any hazardous wastes generated would be inventoried and
disposed of appropriately at an approved off-reservation hazardous
waste recycling or disposal facility. In
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this and in all other respects, the proposed cement plant project would
meet or exceed all federal, state and/or tribal criteria under
applicable law.
Significant issues to be addressed in the EIS include, but are not
limited to air quality, geology and soils, surface and groundwater
resources, biological resources including threatened and endangered
species, cultural resources, socioeconomic conditions, land use,
aesthetics or visual resources, environmental justice, and Indian trust
resources. The range of issues and alternatives to be addressed in the
EIS may be expanded or reduced, based on comments received in response
to this notice and at the public scoping meetings.
Public Comment Availability
Comments, including names and addresses of respondents, will be
available for public review at the BIA address shown in the ADDRESSES
section, during business hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except holidays. Individual respondents may request
confidentiality. If you wish us to withhold your name and/or 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. Such requests will be honored to the extent allowed by the
law. We will not, however, consider anonymous comments. 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.
Authority
This notice is published in accordance with section 1503.1 of the
Council of Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500 through
1508) implementing the procedural requirements of the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4371 et seq.),
Department of the Interior Manual (516 DM 1-6), and is in the exercise
of authority delegated to the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary--
Indian Affairs by 209 DM 8.1.
Dated: February 10, 2005.
Michael D. Olsen,
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 05-3238 Filed 2-18-05; 8:45 am]
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