Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Chevron Energy Solutions Lucerne Valley Solar Project, San Bernardino County, CA, and the Draft California Desert Conservation Area Plan Amendment, 6057-6058 [2010-2299]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[CACA 49561, LLCAD08000L5101
ER0000LVRWB09B3220]
Notice of Availability of the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Proposed Chevron Energy
Solutions Lucerne Valley Solar Project,
San Bernardino County, CA, and the
Draft California Desert Conservation
Area Plan Amendment
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability.
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended, and the Federal Land
Policy and Management Act of 1976, as
amended, the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) has prepared a Draft
California Desert Conservation Area
(CDCA) Plan Amendment and a Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
for the proposed Chevron Energy
Solutions Lucerne Valley Solar 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 CDCA Plan
Amendment and Draft EIS within 90
days following the date the
Environmental Protection Agency
publishes this Notice of Availability 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,
or mailings.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
related to the proposed Chevron Energy
Solutions Lucerne Valley Solar Project
by any of the following methods:
• Web site: https://www.blm.gov/ca/st/
en/fo/barstow.html.
• E-mail: LucerneSolar@blm.gov.
• Fax: (951) 697–5299.
• Mail or other delivery service: Greg
Thomsen, BLM California Desert
District Office, 22835 Calle San Juan de
Los Lagos, Moreno Valley, California
92553.
Copies of the Draft EIS and Draft
CDCA Plan Amendment for the
proposed Chevron Energy Solutions
Lucerne Valley Solar Project are
available in the California Desert
District Office at the above address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information contact Greg
Thomsen, Project Manager; telephone
(951) 697–5237 or at the address and email address above.
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Chevron
Energy Solutions has requested a 516acre right-of-way (ROW) authorization
to construct and operate a 45-megawatt
solar photovoltaic project and connect it
to an existing Southern California
Edison 33 kV distribution system on
public lands located approximately 8
miles east of Lucerne Valley, San
Bernardino County, California.
The proposed project would include a
solar array, switchyard, a control and
maintenance building, and parking area.
The Draft EIS analyzes the site-specific
impacts to the environment from the
proposed project. Alternatives include:
• A no action alternative with a plan
amendment making the project area
unavailable to other solar energy
projects;
• A no action alternative with a plan
amendment making the project area
available to other solar energy projects;
• The proposed action;
• A modified proposed action that
reduces visual and biological impacts;
and
• A reduced footprint/reduced
megawatts modified proposed action.
Pursuant to BLM’s CDCA Plan (1980,
as amended), sites associated with
power generation or transmission not
identified in the CDCA Plan will be
considered through the plan
amendment process.
A Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS
and CDCA Plan amendment for the
Lucerne Valley Solar Project was
published in the Federal Register on
July 23, 2009. This was followed by a
30-day public scoping period which
ended August 22, 2009. Scoping
meetings were held on July 23, 2009 in
Lucerne Valley, California, and on July
30 in San Bernardino, California.
Numerous public scoping comments
were received.
The main concerns included potential
impacts to biological species, visual
resources, and cultural resources, and
appropriate use of public land. The
issues and concerns identified in the
scoping comments were addressed in
the DEIS.
Please note that public comments will
be available for public review and
disclosure at the above address during
regular business hours (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.),
Monday through Friday, except
holidays.
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
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information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6; 40 CFR
1506.10; 43 CFR 1610.2.
Thomas Pogacnik,
Deputy State Director, California.
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Game Fish Hatchery and Stocking
Program
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability: Final
environmental impact report/
environmental impact statement (EIR/
EIS).
SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (FWS) announces the
availability of the final EIR/EIS for the
California Department of Fish and
Game’s (CDFG) Fish Hatchery and
Stocking Program (Program). FWS is
lead agency, under the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of
1969, as amended, for the EIR/EIS
jointly prepared with CDFG. Under the
Sport Fish Restoration Act (SFRA), FWS
proposes to fund actions associated with
the operation of CDFG’s 14 trout
hatcheries and the Mad River Hatchery
for the anadromous steelhead, and
stocking from the 15 hatcheries. The
Federal action does not include funding
CDFG’s other anadromous fish
hatcheries and associated stocking, nor
its issuance of private stocking permits.
SFRA funding may also support CDFG’s
Fishing in the City and Classroom
Aquarium Education Programs. CDFG is
the lead agency under the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and
proposes to implement hatchery
operations and stocking funded by FWS,
as well as all other components of the
CDFG Program, including anadromous
fish hatchery operations and associated
stocking, and issuance of stocking
permits to private parties seeking to
stock fish in California’s inland waters.
The final EIR/EIS presents Program
impact analysis, mitigation for impacts,
selection of the preferred alternative,
and response to comments received
during the comment period for the draft
EIR/EIS.
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DATES: We anticipate that a Record of
Decision will be issued by FWS in 2010,
but no sooner than 30 days after the
Federal Register publication date for
this notice of availability.
ADDRESSES: Download copies of the
final EIR/EIS from the CDFG Web site at
https://www.dfg.ca.gov/news/pubnotice/
hatchery/. Alternatively, you may send
your request for copies of the final EIR/
EIS to Mr. Bart Prose by mail at U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, 2800 Cottage
Way, Room W–1729, Sacramento, CA
95825; by e-mail to bart_prose@fws.gov;
or by fax to (916) 978–6155.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Bart Prose: (916) 978–6152 (phone);
bart_prose@fws.gov (e-mail).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
SFRA (Pub. L. 106–408), FWS has
authority to grant Federal funds from
the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating
Trust Fund to support actions
associated with CDFG’s Program. The
Trust Fund is financed through
collection of excise taxes on sportfishing equipment, electric motors, and
sonar; import duties on fishing tackle,
yachts, and pleasure craft; the portion of
gasoline tax attributable to motorboats
and small engines; and interest on the
Fund.
CDFG has been rearing and stocking
fish in the inland waters of California
since the late 1800s, when the State of
California enacted legislation to restore
and preserve fish in State waters. This
legislation called for the newly formed
California State Fish and Game
Commission to establish ‘‘fish
breederies’’ to stock and supply streams,
lakes, and bays with both foreign and
domestic fish. Since that time in the late
1800s, CDFG has continued that
mandate by rearing and stocking both
inland trout and anadromous species of
fish reared at 24 hatcheries and planting
bases located throughout the State.
For the past approximately 100 years,
CDFG has stocked nonnative trout
throughout the State. CDFG’s Program
currently operates 14 trout hatcheries
throughout the State, rearing 6 trout
species and 3 salmon species. Trout
hatcheries rear rainbow, golden,
cutthroat, brown, lake, and brook trout.
Salmon species reared include Chinook,
Coho, and kokanee. CDFG’s Mad River
Hatchery for anadromous fish presently
rears only steelhead. Over the past 5
years, CDFG planted over 3.6 million
pounds of combined trout and inland
salmon, annually, from its 14 trout
hatcheries into hundreds of locations,
including high mountain lakes, lowelevation reservoirs, and various
streams and creeks. The Mad River
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[FR Doc No: 2010-2299]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[CACA 49561, LLCAD08000L5101 ER0000LVRWB09B3220]
Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact
Statement for the Proposed Chevron Energy Solutions Lucerne Valley
Solar Project, San Bernardino County, CA, and the Draft California
Desert Conservation Area Plan Amendment
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, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of
1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared a
Draft California Desert Conservation Area (CDCA) Plan Amendment and a
Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Chevron
Energy Solutions Lucerne Valley Solar 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 CDCA Plan Amendment and Draft EIS within 90
days following the date the Environmental Protection Agency publishes
this Notice of Availability 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, or mailings.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments related to the proposed Chevron
Energy Solutions Lucerne Valley Solar Project by any of the following
methods:
Web site: https://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/barstow.html.
E-mail: LucerneSolar@blm.gov.
Fax: (951) 697-5299.
Mail or other delivery service: Greg Thomsen, BLM
California Desert District Office, 22835 Calle San Juan de Los Lagos,
Moreno Valley, California 92553.
Copies of the Draft EIS and Draft CDCA Plan Amendment for the
proposed Chevron Energy Solutions Lucerne Valley Solar Project are
available in the California Desert District Office at the above
address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information contact Greg
Thomsen, Project Manager; telephone (951) 697-5237 or at the address
and e-mail address above.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Chevron Energy Solutions has requested a
516-acre right-of-way (ROW) authorization to construct and operate a
45-megawatt solar photovoltaic project and connect it to an existing
Southern California Edison 33 kV distribution system on public lands
located approximately 8 miles east of Lucerne Valley, San Bernardino
County, California.
The proposed project would include a solar array, switchyard, a
control and maintenance building, and parking area. The Draft EIS
analyzes the site-specific impacts to the environment from the proposed
project. Alternatives include:
A no action alternative with a plan amendment making the
project area unavailable to other solar energy projects;
A no action alternative with a plan amendment making the
project area available to other solar energy projects;
The proposed action;
A modified proposed action that reduces visual and
biological impacts; and
A reduced footprint/reduced megawatts modified proposed
action.
Pursuant to BLM's CDCA Plan (1980, as amended), sites associated
with power generation or transmission not identified in the CDCA Plan
will be considered through the plan amendment process.
A Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS and CDCA Plan amendment for
the Lucerne Valley Solar Project was published in the Federal Register
on July 23, 2009. This was followed by a 30-day public scoping period
which ended August 22, 2009. Scoping meetings were held on July 23,
2009 in Lucerne Valley, California, and on July 30 in San Bernardino,
California. Numerous public scoping comments were received.
The main concerns included potential impacts to biological species,
visual resources, and cultural resources, and appropriate use of public
land. The issues and concerns identified in the scoping comments were
addressed in the DEIS.
Please note that public comments will be available for public
review and disclosure at the above address during regular business
hours (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.), Monday through Friday, except holidays.
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; 40 CFR 1506.10; 43 CFR 1610.2.
Thomas Pogacnik,
Deputy State Director, California.
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