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Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Integrated Activity Plan and
Environmental Impact Statement for
the National Petroleum Reserve—
Alaska
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM), Alaska State Office,
Anchorage, Alaska, intends to prepare
an Integrated Activity Plan (IAP) with
an associated Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) for the National
Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR–A)
planning area. This notice announces
the beginning of the scoping period to
solicit public input and comments.
DATES: The public scoping period will
begin upon publication of this notice in
the Federal Register. Formal scoping
will end no sooner than 60 days from
publication of this notice; a final end
date will be announced through a press
release and the BLM–Alaska Web site,
https://www.blm.gov/ak. Comments on
management decisions, resources to be
addressed, and issues for analysis will
help define the proposed actions and
alternatives for the NPR–A IAP/EIS. You
can submit comments in writing to the
addresses listed below. The BLM will
announce all public meetings, times,
and locations through the local news
media and on the agency Web site. The
BLM will hold public scoping meetings
in Anaktuvuk Pass, Anchorage,
Atqasuk, Barrow, Fairbanks, Nuiqsut,
and Wainwright. The BLM may hold
additional public scoping meetings in
other communities if there is strong
community interest.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
• Web site: https://www.blm.gov/ak.
• Fax: 907–271–5479.
• Mail: BLM Alaska State Office,
Attention—NPR–A Planning Team, 222
West 7th Avenue, #13, Anchorage,
Alaska 99513–7599.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim
Ducker, 907– 271–3130; e-mail:
jducker@blm.gov; or by mail: Bureau of
Land Management, 222 West 7th
Avenue, #13, Anchorage, Alaska 99513–
7599. You may also request to be added
to the mailing list. Documents pertinent
to this plan may be examined at the
following Web site: https://www.blm.gov/
ak.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
document provides notice that the BLM
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intends to prepare an IAP with an
associated EIS for the NPR–A planning
area. The NPR–A IAP/EIS will consider
management of BLM-administered lands
within the NPR–A. The lands in the
NPR–A total approximately 22.1 million
acres of surface and subsurface lands,
and an additional 200,000 subsurfaceonly acres underlying Native
Corporation-owned surface lands.
The Naval Petroleum Reserves
Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6501, et seq.),
as amended, excludes the NPR–A from
the application of Section 202 of the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act (43 U.S.C. 1701, et seq.), as
amended, which is the basis for the
BLM’s Resource Management Plans. The
BLM conducts its planning within NPR–
A through IAPs. The BLM complies
with all applicable laws in the
preparation of an IAP, including the
National Environmental Policy Act, the
Endangered Species Act, Marine
Mammal Protection Act, and the
National Historic Preservation Act. The
BLM will work collaboratively with
interested parties to identify the
management decisions best suited to
local, regional, and national needs and
concerns.
The purpose of the public scoping
process is to determine the management
decisions and resources to be addressed
and the issues for analysis. This
information will influence the
development of the proposed action and
alternatives, and guide the
environmental analysis.
You may submit written comments on
management decisions and resources to
be addressed and issues for analysis to
the BLM at any of the public scoping
meetings, or use any of the methods
listed in the ADDRESSES section above.
The result of this planning effort will
supersede the current plans for the
Northwest (2004) NPR–A, Northeast
(2008) NPR–A, and Colville River
Special Area (2008). 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. BLM personnel, through
discussions within the BLM and with
other agencies, individuals, and outside
groups, have identified preliminary
issues for analysis and the proposed
scope of this plan. Most issues relate to
management of oil and gas activities and
the protection of resources and residents
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of the region from those impacts in the
NPR–A. Of special note are impacts to
the resources and uses of the area near
Teshekpuk Lake and to the Western
Arctic Caribou Herd. The BLM has
developed the following preliminary
criteria for developing the proposed
actions and alternatives:
• The plan will consider the lands
and waters administered by the BLM
within the NPR–A.
• All decisions in the plan will be
consistent with the Naval Petroleum
Reserve Production Act of 1976,
including the requirements to manage
the NPR–A consistent with the total
energy needs for the Nation and to
protect the environmental, fish and
wildlife, and historical and scenic
values of the NPR–A.
• The existing plans defer oil and gas
leasing in approximately 1.57 million
acres in northwestern NPR–A and
430,000 acres north and east of
Teshekpuk Lake. The lands in
northwestern NPR–A are deferred from
leasing until 2014 and the lands near
Teshekpuk Lake until 2018. The new
plan will make management decisions
for these areas that will become effective
at the expiration of their respective
deferral periods.
• Action alternatives will be
consistent with requirements for
protection of spectacled and Stellar’s
eiders described in the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service’s 2008 Biological
Opinion for the northern NPR–A
planning areas and any new Biological
Opinion received as a part of this
planning effort.
• The plan will address oil and gas
leasing and will use scoping to identify
other management decisions and
resources to be addressed.
• The resource protection measures
applied to oil and gas authorizations
will be as consistent as possible in all
areas covered by the plan, recognizing
the differing values within the NPR–A.
• The BLM will consider subsistence
resources and users and minimize
adverse impacts to subsistence uses in
accordance with Section 810 of the
Alaska National Interest Lands
Conservation Act (ANILCA).
• The plan will protect valid existing
rights.
• The BLM will consider plans and
policies of adjacent land owners/
managers.
Julia Dougan,
Acting State Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Notice of Availability of the Final
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Imperial Valley Solar, LLC Project,
California and the Proposed California
Desert Conservation Area Plan
Amendment
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended (NEPA), and the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has
prepared a Proposed Resource
Management Plan (RMP) Amendment/
Final Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) for the Imperial Valley Solar, LLC
(IVS) Project and by this notice is
announcing its availability.
DATES: The BLM planning regulations
state that any person who meets the
conditions described in the regulations
may protest the BLM’s Proposed RMP
Amendment. A person who meets the
conditions must file the protest within
30 days after the date the Environmental
Protection Agency publishes its notice
of availability in the Federal Register.
The BLM will also be accepting
additional public comments on the
RMP/EIS within 30 days after the date
that the Environmental Protection
Agency publishes its Notice of
Availibility in the Federal Register.
Comments can be sent to Jim Stobaugh
at the addresses given below. All
substantive comments will be reviewed
and responded to in the Record of
Decision.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Proposed RMP
Amendment/Final EIS are available for
public inspection at the El Centro Field
Office, 1661 S. 4th Street, El Centro,
California 92243. Interested persons
may also review the Proposed RMP
Amendment/Final EIS on the following
Web site: https://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/
fo/elcentro/nepa/stirling.html. All
protests must be in writing and mailed
to one of the following addresses:
SUMMARY:
Regular mail
Overnight mail
BLM Director (210),
Attention: Brenda
Williams, P.O. Box
66538, Washington,
DC 20035.
BLM Director (210),
Attention: Brenda
Williams, 1620 L
Street, NW., Suite
1075, Washington,
DC 20036.
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All comments must be in writing and
sent to Jim Stobaugh, BLM Project
Manager, by mail at Bureau of Land
Management, P.O. Box 12000, Reno,
Nevada 89520; or by e-mail at
Jim_Stobaugh@blm.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim
Stobaugh, BLM Project Manager, by
telephone at (775) 861–6478; through
mail at Bureau of Land Management,
P.O. Box 12000, Reno, Nevada 89520; or
by e-mail at Jim_Stobaugh@blm.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Stirling
Energy Systems (SES) filed right-of-way
(ROW) application CACA–47740 for the
SES Solar Two Project. Afrter merging
with Tessera Soar the applicant changed
its name to Imperial Valley Solar, LLC.
The project name, SES Solar Two, has
also been changed to the Imperial Valley
Solar, LLC project. The proposed IVS
Project is a concentrated solar electrical
generating facility capable of generating
709 megawatts (MW) of renewable
power. The entire project encompasses
approximately 6,144 acres of BLMmanaged lands. The project site is in
Imperial County, California,
approximately 4 miles east of Ocotillo
and 14 miles west of El Centro.
Generally, the site is bounded on the
north by the San Diego Metropolitan
Transit System/San Diego and Arizona
Eastern Railway and on the south by
Interstate Highway 8. The eastern
boundary is approximately 1.5 miles
west of Dunaway Road and the western
boundary is the westerly section line in
Section 22 in Township 16 South,
Range 12 East. An additional 110-acre
laydown construction area is proposed
east of Dunaway Road.
IVS proposes to use SunCatcher
technology on the site. A SunCatcher is
a 25-kilowatt solar dish designed to
automatically track the sun and collect
and focus solar energy onto a power
conversion unit (PCU), which generates
electricity. The system consists of a 38foot high by 40-foot wide solar
concentrator in a dish structure that
supports an array of curved glass mirror
facets. These mirrors concentrate solar
energy onto the solar receiver of the
PCU.
The project also includes an electrical
transmission line, water supply
pipeline, and access road. A new 230kilovolt (kV) substation would be
constructed in approximately the center
of the project site near a main services
complex that is also part of the
proposal. The substation would be
connected to the existing San Diego Gas
and Electric Imperial Valley Substation
by a 10.3-mile long, double-circuit 230kV transmission line. Approximately 7.6
miles of this new line would be outside
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Notice of Intent To Prepare an Integrated Activity Plan and
Environmental Impact Statement for the National Petroleum Reserve--
Alaska
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Alaska State Office,
Anchorage, Alaska, intends to prepare an Integrated Activity Plan (IAP)
with an associated Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the
National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) planning area. This notice
announces the beginning of the scoping period to solicit public input
and comments.
DATES: The public scoping period will begin upon publication of this
notice in the Federal Register. Formal scoping will end no sooner than
60 days from publication of this notice; a final end date will be
announced through a press release and the BLM-Alaska Web site, https://www.blm.gov/ak. Comments on management decisions, resources to be
addressed, and issues for analysis will help define the proposed
actions and alternatives for the NPR-A IAP/EIS. You can submit comments
in writing to the addresses listed below. The BLM will announce all
public meetings, times, and locations through the local news media and
on the agency Web site. The BLM will hold public scoping meetings in
Anaktuvuk Pass, Anchorage, Atqasuk, Barrow, Fairbanks, Nuiqsut, and
Wainwright. The BLM may hold additional public scoping meetings in
other communities if there is strong community interest.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Web site: https://www.blm.gov/ak.
Fax: 907-271-5479.
Mail: BLM Alaska State Office, Attention--NPR-A Planning
Team, 222 West 7th Avenue, 13, Anchorage, Alaska 99513-7599.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Ducker, 907- 271-3130; e-mail:
jducker@blm.gov; or by mail: Bureau of Land Management, 222 West 7th
Avenue, 13, Anchorage, Alaska 99513-7599. You may also request
to be added to the mailing list. Documents pertinent to this plan may
be examined at the following Web site: https://www.blm.gov/ak.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document provides notice that the BLM
intends to prepare an IAP with an associated EIS for the NPR-A planning
area. The NPR-A IAP/EIS will consider management of BLM-administered
lands within the NPR-A. The lands in the NPR-A total approximately 22.1
million acres of surface and subsurface lands, and an additional
200,000 subsurface-only acres underlying Native Corporation-owned
surface lands.
The Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6501, et
seq.), as amended, excludes the NPR-A from the application of Section
202 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (43 U.S.C. 1701, et
seq.), as amended, which is the basis for the BLM's Resource Management
Plans. The BLM conducts its planning within NPR-A through IAPs. The BLM
complies with all applicable laws in the preparation of an IAP,
including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species
Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, and the National Historic
Preservation Act. The BLM will work collaboratively with interested
parties to identify the management decisions best suited to local,
regional, and national needs and concerns.
The purpose of the public scoping process is to determine the
management decisions and resources to be addressed and the issues for
analysis. This information will influence the development of the
proposed action and alternatives, and guide the environmental analysis.
You may submit written comments on management decisions and
resources to be addressed and issues for analysis to the BLM at any of
the public scoping meetings, or use any of the methods listed in the
ADDRESSES section above. The result of this planning effort will
supersede the current plans for the Northwest (2004) NPR-A, Northeast
(2008) NPR-A, and Colville River Special Area (2008). 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. BLM
personnel, through discussions within the BLM and with other agencies,
individuals, and outside groups, have identified preliminary issues for
analysis and the proposed scope of this plan. Most issues relate to
management of oil and gas activities and the protection of resources
and residents
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of the region from those impacts in the NPR-A. Of special note are
impacts to the resources and uses of the area near Teshekpuk Lake and
to the Western Arctic Caribou Herd. The BLM has developed the following
preliminary criteria for developing the proposed actions and
alternatives:
The plan will consider the lands and waters administered
by the BLM within the NPR-A.
All decisions in the plan will be consistent with the
Naval Petroleum Reserve Production Act of 1976, including the
requirements to manage the NPR-A consistent with the total energy needs
for the Nation and to protect the environmental, fish and wildlife, and
historical and scenic values of the NPR-A.
The existing plans defer oil and gas leasing in
approximately 1.57 million acres in northwestern NPR-A and 430,000
acres north and east of Teshekpuk Lake. The lands in northwestern NPR-A
are deferred from leasing until 2014 and the lands near Teshekpuk Lake
until 2018. The new plan will make management decisions for these areas
that will become effective at the expiration of their respective
deferral periods.
Action alternatives will be consistent with requirements
for protection of spectacled and Stellar's eiders described in the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service's 2008 Biological Opinion for the northern
NPR-A planning areas and any new Biological Opinion received as a part
of this planning effort.
The plan will address oil and gas leasing and will use
scoping to identify other management decisions and resources to be
addressed.
The resource protection measures applied to oil and gas
authorizations will be as consistent as possible in all areas covered
by the plan, recognizing the differing values within the NPR-A.
The BLM will consider subsistence resources and users and
minimize adverse impacts to subsistence uses in accordance with Section
810 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA).
The plan will protect valid existing rights.
The BLM will consider plans and policies of adjacent land
owners/managers.
Julia Dougan,
Acting State Director.
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