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Townsend Public Library, 201 North
Spruce Street, Townsend, Montana; and
online at https://www.deq.mt.gov.
You may submit comments by any of
the following methods:
E-mail: ghallsten@mt.gov or
david_r_williams@blm.gov.
Fax: 406–444–4386 or 406–533–7660.
Send written comments to: Graymont
Western U.S., Inc. Proposed Mine
Expansion DEIS, Attention: Greg
Hallsten, Montana Department of
Environmental Quality, Director’s
Office, PO Box 200901, Helena, MT
59620–0901; or David Williams, Bureau
of Land Management, Butte Field Office,
106 North Parkmont, Butte, MT 59701.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information and/or to request a
copy of the document, contact: Greg
Hallsten, Montana Department of
Environmental Quality, PO Box 200901,
Helena, MT 59620–0901; or David
Williams, Bureau of Land Management,
Butte Field Office, 106 North Parkmont,
Butte, MT 59701.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Graymont
Western U.S., Inc. submitted a Plan of
Operations on February 22, 2006, to the
BLM and the DEQ to expand their
existing operation, located on
unpatented mining claims on public
lands west of Townsend, Montana. This
proposal is a continuation of mining
along a prominent limestone ridge
which forms the crest of the ‘‘Limestone
Hills.’’ Mining was originally permitted
here beginning in 1981 and has
continued since then. The principal
concern, developed through public
meetings and agency review, was
potential loss of mule deer and
mountain sheep habitat and winter
browse vegetation, principally mountain
mahogany.
The DEIS evaluates three alternatives:
No Action, the Proposed Action, and
Alternative A, Modified Pit Backfill,
which is the agency preferred
alternative. The No Action Alternative
would limit mine disturbance to the
currently permitted 735 acres of
disturbance, and the mine would
continue to operate until it reached the
permitted limits, estimated at 7 to 12
years. The Proposed Action Alternative
would allow for an additional 1,313
acres of disturbance and allow
operations to continue for 35 to 50
years. The Modified Pit Backfill
Alternative modifies the proposed
action to require reclamation at the site
to provide for more diverse topography
and soils that favor winter browse
species, but the Alternative does not
change the proposed disturbance
acreage or years of future operations.
The Draft EIS and documents related
to this EIS, including public comments,
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will be posted on the DEQ Web site
(https://www.deq.mt.gov) and may be
published as part of the Final EIS. The
public is invited to review and comment
on the range and adequacy of the draft
alternatives and associated
environmental effects. 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. All submissions from
organizations and businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, will be
available for public inspection in their
entirety.
Rick M. Hotaling,
Field Manager.
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BILLING CODE 4310–DN–P
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[UT–920–08–5101–ER–J108; UTU–79766,
NVN–82385]
Notice of Availability of the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for a
Proposed Liquid Petroleum Products
Pipeline from Woods Cross, UT, to
Northeast Las Vegas, NV, and Draft
Amendment of the Pony Express
Resource Management Plan
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability.
SUMMARY: In accordance with Section
102 of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C.
4321 et seq.), the Council on
Environmental Quality’s regulations
implementing the NEPA (40 CFR parts
1500–1508), and applicable agency
guidance, a Draft Environmental Impact
Statement (DEIS) and Draft Pony
Express Resource Management Plan
(RMP) amendment have been prepared
in response to UNEV, LLC’s right-of-way
(ROW) application to construct and
operate a liquid petroleum products
pipeline on public lands from Woods
Cross, Utah, to northeast Las Vegas,
Nevada.
DATES: This notice initiates a 90-day
public comment period. During this
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period, the public is invited to submit
comments on the DEIS and Draft Pony
Express RMP Amendment to be
considered in the development of the
Final EIS and Record of Decision. To
ensure comments will be considered,
the BLM must receive written comments
on the DEIS and Draft Plan Amendment
within 90 days following the date the
Environmental Protection Agency
publishes a Notice of Availability in the
Federal Register.
Public meetings will be held in the
following locations: Salt Lake City,
Tooele, Delta, and Cedar City, Utah, and
Las Vegas, Nevada. Times and dates of
these meetings will be announced
through the Utah BLM Web site
(https://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/prog/
more/lands_and_realty/major_projects/
unev_pipeline_eis.html), press releases,
local newspapers, and other local
media. The BLM will announce public
meetings and other opportunities to
submit comments on this project at least
15 days prior to the event.
Before including your address, phone
number, e-mail address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comment, be advised 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 from public review your
personal identifying information, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
If you comment as or on behalf of an
organization or business, BLM will
release your comments to the public in
their entirety, including all personal
identifying information. The BLM will
not consider a request from an
organization or business, or anyone
commenting on behalf of an
organization or business to withhold
any personal identifying information
from release to the public.
ADDRESSES: Comments related to the
DEIS should be mailed to Joe Incardine,
National Project Manager, Bureau of
Land Management, Utah State Office,
P.O. Box 45155, Salt Lake City, UT
84145–0155. Comments may also be
transmitted by facsimile to the attention
of Joe Incardine at: (801) 539–4222, sent
via e-mail to:
UT_UNEV_Pipeline_EIS@blm.gov, or
hand delivered to: BLM Utah State
Office, 440 West 200 South, Suite 500,
Salt Lake City, Utah. E-mails should
include ‘‘UNEV Draft EIS’’ in the subject
line.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joe
Incardine at the BLM Utah State Office,
P.O. Box 45155, Salt Lake City, UT
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84145–0155; by phone: (801) 524–3833;
or by e-mail: Joe_Incardine@blm.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: UNEV,
LLC is seeking a ROW grant to install
approximately 400 miles of 12-inchdiameter liquid petroleum products
pipeline from Woods Cross, Utah, to Las
Vegas, Nevada. The subsequent
construction and operation of the liquid
petroleum products pipeline and
facilities would occur in Davis, Salt
Lake, Tooele, Juab, Millard, Beaver,
Iron, and Washington Counties in Utah
and Lincoln and Clark Counties in
Nevada to increase the capacity and
improve the efficiency of the fuel
delivery system into Southern Utah and
the Las Vegas, Nevada, area. The
pipeline would be available to accept
shipments of refined products from
multiple refineries in the Salt Lake City,
Utah, area, as well as refineries in
Wyoming and Montana.
UNEV’s ROW Application
UNEV has filed its ROW application
to respond to the high population
growth and increasing demand for
petroleum products for the benefit of
Utah and Nevada’s existing and future
petroleum products consumers, while
balancing the needs of resources and
other public interests in the area. Its
pipeline is designed to:
• Follow the recommendation of the
Clark County Blue Ribbon Commission
to Improve the Reliability of Southern
Nevada’s Fuel Supply to provide a new
petroleum products pipeline to Las
Vegas from a source outside of
California.
• Increase the capacity of the fuel
delivery system into southern Utah and
Nevada to address private, commercial,
industrial, and military demand for
refined fuel products.
• Enhance the reliability and
efficiency of the current fuel delivery
system for multiple refineries in the Salt
Lake City area.
Pipeline Routes
UNEV proposes to install a 12-inch,
welded steel, common carrier mainline
pipeline for refined liquid petroleum
products such as multiple grades of
gasoline and diesel fuel. The pipeline
would extend approximately 399 miles
from a cluster of five refineries in the
North Salt Lake City area, including
Holly Corporation’s Woods Cross
Refinery, to the Apex Industrial Park
northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. A 10inch service line to the Salt Lake
International Airport would extend 2.4
miles from the mainline at milepost
(MP) 4.5. An 8-inch lateral pipeline
would extend approximately 9 miles
from the mainline at MP 256 to the
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proposed Cedar City Terminal. The
project would include an inlet pumping
station at the origin; a pressure
reduction station at a lateral terminal
northwest of Cedar City, Utah; a
pressure reduction site at MP 355.5, and
a receiving terminal near Las Vegas. The
proposed pipeline route would
generally travel west past the Salt Lake
International Airport to Lake Point,
Tooele County, and then south through
Tooele Valley. The route would
continue south passing near the
communities of Delta and Milford, Utah,
and 20–30 miles west of Cedar City and
St. George, Utah, before arriving at Apex
in Nevada. The southern third of the
utility corridor (from MP 250 to the Las
Vegas Terminal) contains two natural
gas pipelines owned by Kern River Gas
Transmission Company, the most recent
of which was completed in 2003.
The Airport alternative route is 3.35
miles long and would diverge from the
proposed alignment at MP 6.6 and
rejoin it at MP 10. At MP 6.6 the
alternative alignment would continue
west on the west side of the airport but
within property owned by the
Blackhawk Duck Club. This alternative
was developed to address concerns from
local duck clubs.
The Tooele County alternative route
was developed to address concerns of
the Tooele County Commission
regarding the proposed route along the
eastern side of the northern Tooele
Valley from approximately MP 25.3
(near Lake Point) to MP 38.7 (north of
the Tooele Ordinance Depot). The
alternative route would split from the
proposed route near Lake Point and run
west southwest, crossing State Highway
36, proceeding southwest and along the
north side of State Highway 138, north
of the Tooele Airport. The route would
cross the highway along the east side of
Sheep Lane where the route would head
south, running east of the Miller Motor
Sports Park. Near the south end of the
Park, the route would turn southeast
and parallel an abandoned railroad
ROW. The alternative route would run
southeast and then curve south to rejoin
the proposed UNEV route south of the
crossing of State Highway 112.
The Rush Lake alternative route in
Tooele County was developed to
address concerns of the Salt Lake Field
Office about an area having possible soil
contamination within the Jacob Smelter
Superfund Site OU2 Boundary, as well
as to address the building of the
proposed pipeline within wetlands
adjacent to Rush Lake which are
frequently inundated. This alternative
departs from the proposed route
alignment at the northern end of Rush
Lake east of Stockton, Utah, and
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parallels the proposed alignment
approximately 0.25 mile to the west. It
would rejoin the proposed route at
approximately MP 49.
The Millard County alternative route
was developed to reduce impacts to
private land owners that would result
from the proposed alignment between
MP 132.5 to MP 143.2. This alternative
pipeline alignment would be located
west of Lynndyl and Delta, Utah, and
would split from the proposed route
near MP 110, continue west around
Delta, and tie back into the original
route at approximately MP 161. This
alternative route is approximately 63
miles long.
Draft RMP Amendment
The proposed pipeline ROW
alignment would fall outside of current
utility corridors designated by the BLM
in the Pony Express RMP. For the
project to be in compliance with the
Pony Express RMP, this RMP would
need to be amended to designate a new
utility corridor. The DEIS addresses the
establishment of a new utility corridor
that would accommodate the proposed
pipeline ROW.
The planning issues for the draft RMP
amendment include:
• Access to and transportation on the
public lands.
• Wildlife habitat and management of
summer and winter ranges and
migration corridors for antelope, mule
deer, and elk.
• Cumulative effect of land uses and
human activities on Threatened,
Endangered, Candidate, and Sensitive
species and their habitats.
• Vegetation, including impacts of
invasive non-native species.
• Management of cultural and
paleontological resources, including
National Historic Trails.
• North Oquirrh Management Area.
• Visual Resource Management.
• Air and water quality.
• Sociology and economics.
The planning criteria for the draft
RMP amendment include:
• Recognize valid existing rights.
• Comply with laws, regulations,
executive orders and BLM supplemental
program guidance.
• Comply with the Endangered
Species Act and follow interagency
agreements with the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service regarding consultation.
• Ensure, within applicable laws and
policies, that management prescriptions
and planning actions complement those
of neighboring federal, tribal, state,
county and municipal planning
jurisdictions.
• Coordinate with Indian Tribes to
identify sites, areas and objects
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important to their culture and religious
heritage.
• Evaluate cultural and
paleontological resources for possible
interpretation, preservation,
conservation and enhancement.
• Management decisions will
consider a reasonable range of
alternatives that focus on the relative
values of resources and ensure
responsiveness to the issues.
Management prescriptions will reflect
multiple use resource principles.
• Address the social and economic
impacts of the alternatives.
• Include management direction for
public lands managed by BLM.
• Provide for public safety and
welfare.
Selma Sierra,
State Director.
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BILLING CODE 4310–DQ–P
Bureau of Land Management
[UTU 6443, UTU 012532, and UTU 0146037]
Opening of National Forest System
Lands; Utah
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Realty Action.
SUMMARY: Public Land Order No. 7708
partially revoked 3 Public Land Orders
and revoked 1 Public Land Order in its
entirety. This order opens part of those
previously withdrawn lands to mining
and opens the remainder to such forms
of disposition as may by law be made
of National Forest System lands and to
mining.
DATES: Effective Date: January 20, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rhonda Flynn, BLM Utah State Office,
440 West 200 South, Suite 500, Salt
Lake City, Utah 84101–1345, 801–539–
4132.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 1. Public
Land Order No. 7708 (73 FR 31880
(2008)) revoked Public Land Order No.
1391 (22 FR 1003 (1957)) insofar as it
affected the lands described below. The
United States Forest Service has
decided that those previously
withdrawn lands, described below, can
be opened to such forms of disposition
as may by law be made of National
Forest System lands, including location
and entry under the United States
mining laws:
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Uinta Special Meridian
T. 1 N., R. 11 W.,
Sec. 29, SW1⁄4SW1⁄4SE1⁄4 and
SE1⁄4SE1⁄4SW1⁄4;
Sec. 32, NW1⁄4NW1⁄4NE1⁄4,
NE1⁄4NE1⁄4NW1⁄4, W1⁄2NE1⁄4NW1⁄4, and
E1⁄2NW1⁄4NW1⁄4.
T. 1 S., R. 11 W.,
Sec. 23, SW1⁄4SW1⁄4SE1⁄4 and
SE1⁄4SE1⁄4SW1⁄4;
Sec. 26, W1⁄2NW1⁄4NE1⁄4 and
E1⁄2NE1⁄4NW1⁄4.
The areas described aggregate 140 acres in
Wasatch County.
2. Public Land Order No. 7708 (73 FR
31880 (2008)) revoked Public Land
Order Nos. 4060 (31 FR 10033 (1966)),
4567 (34 FR 1139 (1969)), and 4664 (34
FR 8915 (1969)) insofar as they affected
the lands described below. The United
States Forest Service has decided that
those previously withdrawn lands,
described below, can be opened to
location and entry under the United
States mining laws:
Uinta National Forest
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Uinta National Forest
Uinta Special Meridian
T. 3 S., R. 12 W.,
Sec. 23, SE1⁄4SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, S1⁄2SW1⁄4SE1⁄4,
and SW1⁄4SE1⁄4SE1⁄4;
Sec. 26, NE1⁄4NE1⁄4NW1⁄4, N1⁄2NW1⁄4NE1⁄4,
and NW1⁄4NE1⁄4NE1⁄4.
Salt Lake Meridian
T. 4 S., R. 2 E.,
Sec. 1, all lands West of the 7,600 foot
elevation contour in lots 1 and 8 (lands
inside the Lone Peak Wilderness).
T. 10 S., R. 2 E.,
Sec. 3, SE1⁄4SE1⁄4NW1⁄4, W1⁄2SW1⁄4NE1⁄4,
and NE1⁄4SW1⁄4NE1⁄4.
T. 12 S., R. 2 E.,
Sec. 20, NE1⁄4SE1⁄4NE1⁄4, W1⁄2SE1⁄4NE1⁄4,
and SW1⁄4NE1⁄4.
T. 7 S., R. 4 E.,
Sec. 24, E1⁄2NW1⁄4SE1⁄4, SW1⁄4NW1⁄4SE1⁄4,
and NW1⁄4NE1⁄4SE1⁄4.
T. 8 S., R. 5 E.,
Sec. 11, N1⁄2NW1⁄4NE1⁄4 and
SW1⁄4NW1⁄4NE1⁄4.
The areas described aggregate 287 acres in
Utah and Wasatch Counties.
3. At 10 a.m. on January 20, 2009, the
lands described in Paragraph 1 shall be
opened to such forms of disposition as
may by law be made of National Forest
System lands, including location and
entry under the United States mining
laws and the lands described in
Paragraph 2 shall be opened to location
and entry under the United States
mining laws, subject to valid existing
rights, the provisions of existing
withdrawals, other segregations of
record, and the requirements of
applicable law. Appropriation of lands
described in this order under the
general mining laws prior to the date
and time of restoration is unauthorized.
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Any such attempted appropriation,
including attempted adverse possession
under 30 U.S.C. 38 (2000), shall vest no
rights against the United States. Acts
required to establish a location and to
initiate a right of possession are
governed by State law where not in
conflict with Federal law. The Bureau of
Land Management will not intervene in
disputes between rival locators over
possessory rights since Congress has
provided for such determinations in
local courts.
Authority: 43 CFR 2091.6.
Dated: December 11, 2008.
Selma Sierra,
State Director.
[FR Doc. E8–29891 Filed 12–18–08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310–11–P
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[UTU 42838]
Opening of National Forest System
Lands; Utah
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Realty Action.
SUMMARY: Public Land Order No. 7657
partially revoked the Secretarial Order
dated December 15, 1906 and revoked
the Secretarial Order dated July 27, 1907
in its entirety. This order opens those
previously withdrawn lands to such
forms of disposition as may by law be
made of National Forest System lands
and to mining.
DATES: Effective Date: January 20, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rhonda Flynn, BLM Utah State Office,
440 West 200 South, Suite 500, Salt
Lake City, Utah 84101–1345, 801–539–
4132.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 1. Public
Land Order No. 7657 (71 FR 12712
(2006)) partially revoked the Secretarial
Order dated December 15, 1906 and
revoked the Secretarial Order dated July
27, 1907, in its entirety. The United
States Forest Service has decided that
those previously withdrawn lands,
described below, can be opened to such
forms of disposition as may by law be
made of National Forest System lands,
including location and entry under the
United States mining laws:
a. Secretarial Order dated December
15, 1906.
Dixie National Forest
Salt Lake Meridian
T. 36 S., R. 7 W.,
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[UT-920-08-5101-ER-J108; UTU-79766, NVN-82385]
Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact
Statement for a Proposed Liquid Petroleum Products Pipeline from Woods
Cross, UT, to Northeast Las Vegas, NV, and Draft Amendment of the Pony
Express Resource Management Plan
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 102 of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the Council on
Environmental Quality's regulations implementing the NEPA (40 CFR parts
1500-1508), and applicable agency guidance, a Draft Environmental
Impact Statement (DEIS) and Draft Pony Express Resource Management Plan
(RMP) amendment have been prepared in response to UNEV, LLC's right-of-
way (ROW) application to construct and operate a liquid petroleum
products pipeline on public lands from Woods Cross, Utah, to northeast
Las Vegas, Nevada.
DATES: This notice initiates a 90-day public comment period. During
this period, the public is invited to submit comments on the DEIS and
Draft Pony Express RMP Amendment to be considered in the development of
the Final EIS and Record of Decision. To ensure comments will be
considered, the BLM must receive written comments on the DEIS and Draft
Plan Amendment within 90 days following the date the Environmental
Protection Agency publishes a Notice of Availability in the Federal
Register.
Public meetings will be held in the following locations: Salt Lake
City, Tooele, Delta, and Cedar City, Utah, and Las Vegas, Nevada. Times
and dates of these meetings will be announced through the Utah BLM Web
site (https://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/prog/more/lands_and_realty/major_
projects/unev_pipeline_eis.html), press releases, local newspapers,
and other local media. The BLM will announce public meetings and other
opportunities to submit comments on this project at least 15 days prior
to the event.
Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or
other personal identifying information in your comment, be advised 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 from public review your personal identifying
information, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
If you comment as or on behalf of an organization or business, BLM
will release your comments to the public in their entirety, including
all personal identifying information. The BLM will not consider a
request from an organization or business, or anyone commenting on
behalf of an organization or business to withhold any personal
identifying information from release to the public.
ADDRESSES: Comments related to the DEIS should be mailed to Joe
Incardine, National Project Manager, Bureau of Land Management, Utah
State Office, P.O. Box 45155, Salt Lake City, UT 84145-0155. Comments
may also be transmitted by facsimile to the attention of Joe Incardine
at: (801) 539-4222, sent via e-mail to: UT_UNEV_Pipeline_
EIS@blm.gov, or hand delivered to: BLM Utah State Office, 440 West 200
South, Suite 500, Salt Lake City, Utah. E-mails should include ``UNEV
Draft EIS'' in the subject line.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joe Incardine at the BLM Utah State
Office, P.O. Box 45155, Salt Lake City, UT
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84145-0155; by phone: (801) 524-3833; or by e-mail: Joe_
Incardine@blm.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: UNEV, LLC is seeking a ROW grant to install
approximately 400 miles of 12-inch-diameter liquid petroleum products
pipeline from Woods Cross, Utah, to Las Vegas, Nevada. The subsequent
construction and operation of the liquid petroleum products pipeline
and facilities would occur in Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele, Juab, Millard,
Beaver, Iron, and Washington Counties in Utah and Lincoln and Clark
Counties in Nevada to increase the capacity and improve the efficiency
of the fuel delivery system into Southern Utah and the Las Vegas,
Nevada, area. The pipeline would be available to accept shipments of
refined products from multiple refineries in the Salt Lake City, Utah,
area, as well as refineries in Wyoming and Montana.
UNEV's ROW Application
UNEV has filed its ROW application to respond to the high
population growth and increasing demand for petroleum products for the
benefit of Utah and Nevada's existing and future petroleum products
consumers, while balancing the needs of resources and other public
interests in the area. Its pipeline is designed to:
Follow the recommendation of the Clark County Blue Ribbon
Commission to Improve the Reliability of Southern Nevada's Fuel Supply
to provide a new petroleum products pipeline to Las Vegas from a source
outside of California.
Increase the capacity of the fuel delivery system into
southern Utah and Nevada to address private, commercial, industrial,
and military demand for refined fuel products.
Enhance the reliability and efficiency of the current fuel
delivery system for multiple refineries in the Salt Lake City area.
Pipeline Routes
UNEV proposes to install a 12-inch, welded steel, common carrier
mainline pipeline for refined liquid petroleum products such as
multiple grades of gasoline and diesel fuel. The pipeline would extend
approximately 399 miles from a cluster of five refineries in the North
Salt Lake City area, including Holly Corporation's Woods Cross
Refinery, to the Apex Industrial Park northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. A
10-inch service line to the Salt Lake International Airport would
extend 2.4 miles from the mainline at milepost (MP) 4.5. An 8-inch
lateral pipeline would extend approximately 9 miles from the mainline
at MP 256 to the proposed Cedar City Terminal. The project would
include an inlet pumping station at the origin; a pressure reduction
station at a lateral terminal northwest of Cedar City, Utah; a pressure
reduction site at MP 355.5, and a receiving terminal near Las Vegas.
The proposed pipeline route would generally travel west past the Salt
Lake International Airport to Lake Point, Tooele County, and then south
through Tooele Valley. The route would continue south passing near the
communities of Delta and Milford, Utah, and 20-30 miles west of Cedar
City and St. George, Utah, before arriving at Apex in Nevada. The
southern third of the utility corridor (from MP 250 to the Las Vegas
Terminal) contains two natural gas pipelines owned by Kern River Gas
Transmission Company, the most recent of which was completed in 2003.
The Airport alternative route is 3.35 miles long and would diverge
from the proposed alignment at MP 6.6 and rejoin it at MP 10. At MP 6.6
the alternative alignment would continue west on the west side of the
airport but within property owned by the Blackhawk Duck Club. This
alternative was developed to address concerns from local duck clubs.
The Tooele County alternative route was developed to address
concerns of the Tooele County Commission regarding the proposed route
along the eastern side of the northern Tooele Valley from approximately
MP 25.3 (near Lake Point) to MP 38.7 (north of the Tooele Ordinance
Depot). The alternative route would split from the proposed route near
Lake Point and run west southwest, crossing State Highway 36,
proceeding southwest and along the north side of State Highway 138,
north of the Tooele Airport. The route would cross the highway along
the east side of Sheep Lane where the route would head south, running
east of the Miller Motor Sports Park. Near the south end of the Park,
the route would turn southeast and parallel an abandoned railroad ROW.
The alternative route would run southeast and then curve south to
rejoin the proposed UNEV route south of the crossing of State Highway
112.
The Rush Lake alternative route in Tooele County was developed to
address concerns of the Salt Lake Field Office about an area having
possible soil contamination within the Jacob Smelter Superfund Site OU2
Boundary, as well as to address the building of the proposed pipeline
within wetlands adjacent to Rush Lake which are frequently inundated.
This alternative departs from the proposed route alignment at the
northern end of Rush Lake east of Stockton, Utah, and parallels the
proposed alignment approximately 0.25 mile to the west. It would rejoin
the proposed route at approximately MP 49.
The Millard County alternative route was developed to reduce
impacts to private land owners that would result from the proposed
alignment between MP 132.5 to MP 143.2. This alternative pipeline
alignment would be located west of Lynndyl and Delta, Utah, and would
split from the proposed route near MP 110, continue west around Delta,
and tie back into the original route at approximately MP 161. This
alternative route is approximately 63 miles long.
Draft RMP Amendment
The proposed pipeline ROW alignment would fall outside of current
utility corridors designated by the BLM in the Pony Express RMP. For
the project to be in compliance with the Pony Express RMP, this RMP
would need to be amended to designate a new utility corridor. The DEIS
addresses the establishment of a new utility corridor that would
accommodate the proposed pipeline ROW.
The planning issues for the draft RMP amendment include:
Access to and transportation on the public lands.
Wildlife habitat and management of summer and winter
ranges and migration corridors for antelope, mule deer, and elk.
Cumulative effect of land uses and human activities on
Threatened, Endangered, Candidate, and Sensitive species and their
habitats.
Vegetation, including impacts of invasive non-native
species.
Management of cultural and paleontological resources,
including National Historic Trails.
North Oquirrh Management Area.
Visual Resource Management.
Air and water quality.
Sociology and economics.
The planning criteria for the draft RMP amendment include:
Recognize valid existing rights.
Comply with laws, regulations, executive orders and BLM
supplemental program guidance.
Comply with the Endangered Species Act and follow
interagency agreements with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
regarding consultation.
Ensure, within applicable laws and policies, that
management prescriptions and planning actions complement those of
neighboring federal, tribal, state, county and municipal planning
jurisdictions.
Coordinate with Indian Tribes to identify sites, areas and
objects
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important to their culture and religious heritage.
Evaluate cultural and paleontological resources for
possible interpretation, preservation, conservation and enhancement.
Management decisions will consider a reasonable range of
alternatives that focus on the relative values of resources and ensure
responsiveness to the issues. Management prescriptions will reflect
multiple use resource principles.
Address the social and economic impacts of the
alternatives.
Include management direction for public lands managed by
BLM.
Provide for public safety and welfare.
Selma Sierra,
State Director.
[FR Doc. E8-30101 Filed 12-18-08; 8:45 am]
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