Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for San Diego Gas and Electric's East County Substation Project, San Diego County, CA, 52053-52054 [2012-21170]
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Bureau of Land Management
Notice of Availability of the Record of
Decision for San Diego Gas and
Electric’s East County Substation
Project, San Diego County, CA
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) announces the
availability of the Record of Decision
(ROD) for San Diego Gas and Electric’s
(SDG&E) East County (ECO) Substation
Project, located in San Diego County,
California. The Secretary of the Interior
approved the ROD on August 21, 2012,
which constitutes the final decision of
the Department.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the ROD have
been sent to responsible Federal, State,
and local government agencies and
other interested stakholders, and are
available upon request from the Field
Manager, BLM El Centro Field Office,
1661 S. 4th Street, El Centro, California
92243, and the BLM California Desert
District Office, 22835 Calle San Juan de
Los Lagos, Moreno Valley, California
92553, or via the Internet at the
following Web site: https://www.ca.blm.
gov/elcentro.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: R.
Brian Paul, Project Manager, telephone
760–337–4400; address BLM California
Desert District Office, 22835 Calle San
Juan de Los Lagos, Moreno Valley,
California 92553–9046; email
catulewind@blm.gov.
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: SDG&E
filed right-of-way (ROW) application
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Project. The ECO Substation Project will
provide an interconnection hub for
renewable generation along SDG&E’s
existing Southwest Powerlink (SWPL)
500-kilovolt (kV) transmission line. The
project will consist of a 500/230/138 kV
substation; a SWPL Loop-In (a short
loop-in of the existing SWPL
transmission line to the proposed ECO
Susbstation); the rebuilt Boulevard
Substation (an existing substation); and
a 13.9-mile 138 kV transmission line
connecting the new ECO Substation to
the rebuilt Boulevard Substation, 0.8
mile of which is on public lands
administered by the BLM (the reminder
is located on private lands subject to the
permitting authority of the California
Public Utilties Commission). Through
the ROD, the BLM approves the 0.8-mile
portion of the 138 kV transmission line
on BLM-administered public land, and
makes no decision regarding those
portions of the ECO Substation Project
or other projects analyzed in the Final
Environmental Impact Statement/
Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR)
that are not located on BLM-managed
lands.
The project site is located
approximately 70 miles east of
downtown San Diego, south of Interstate
8, east of the town of Jacumba and along
Old Highway 80, in San Diego County,
California, within Township 18 South,
Ranges 8 East, Section(s) 02, 03, 10, and
11.
The BLM preferred alternative would
allow the construction, operation,
maintenance, and termination of the
0.8-mile underground segment of the
project’s 138 kV transmission line on
BLM-managed lands, which is necessary
for the construction of the ECO
Substation Project. In addition to the
ECO Substation Project, the Final EIS/
EIR evaluated a ROW application by
Tule Wind, LLC to construct the Tule
Wind Project, as well as the Energia
Sierra Juarez Project, and Gen-Tie,
Campo, Manzanita wind energy
projects. Although these project
components were analyzed in the same
EIS/EIR, only the 0.8-mile underground
segment of the ECO Substation Project
138 kV transmission line and portions
of the Tule Wind Project would be
located on BLM-managed lands. The
BLM issued a separate decision on Tule
Wind, LLC’s ROW application on
December 20, 2011.
This agency preferred alternative was
evaluated in the Final EIS/EIR. The
Notice of Availability of the Final EIS/
EIR for the ECO Substation Project was
published in the Federal Register on
October 14, 2011 (76 FR 381).
Because this decision is approved by
the Secretary of the Interior, it is not
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subject to administrative appeal (43 CFR
4.410(a) (3)).
Mike Pool,
Acting Director, Bureau of Land Management.
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Notice of Availability of the Proposed
Bakersfield Resource Management
Plan and Final Environmental Impact
Statement, California
Bureau of Land Management.
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 the Proposed Resource
Management Plan (RMP) and Final
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
for the Bakersfield Field Office,
California, and by this notice is
announcing its availability.
DATES: BLM planning regulations state
that any person who meets the
conditions as described in the
regulations may protest the Proposed
RMP/Final EIS. A person who meets the
conditions must file the protest within
30 days of the date that the
Environmental Protection Agency
publishes its Notice of Availability of
the Proposed RMP/Final EIS in the
Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Bakersfield
Proposed RMP/Final EIS have been sent
to affected Federal, State, and local
agencies, Native American tribes, and to
other interested parties. Copies of the
Proposed RMP/Final EIS are available
for public inspection at the Bakersfield
Field Office (3801 Pegasus Drive,
Bakersfield, California 93308) and
California State Office (2800 Cottage
Way, Sacramento, California 95825).
Interested persons may also review the
Proposed RMP/Final EIS on the Internet
at: www.blm.gov/ca/bakersfield. All
protests must be in writing and mailed
to one of the following addresses:
Regular Mail: BLM Director (210),
Attention: Brenda Williams, P.O. Box
71383, Washington, DC 20024–1383.
Overnight Mail: BLM Director (210),
Attention: Brenda Williams, 20 M
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Porter, Planning & Environmental
Coordinator, Bakersfield Field Office,
telephone: 661–391–6022; address:
Bakersfield Field Office, 3801 Pegasus
Drive, Bakersfield, California 93308;
email: cacalrmp@blm.gov. 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: The
Proposed RMP/Final EIS addresses
public land and resources managed by
the Bakersfield Field Office in an eightcounty, 17-million-acre region of central
California in Kings, San Luis Obispo,
Santa Barbara, Tulare, Ventura, Madera,
eastern Fresno, and western Kern
counties. Upon approval, this land use
plan will replace the 1997 Caliente RMP
and the 1984 Hollister RMP, as
amended, and provide updated
management decisions regarding
recreation, transportation and access,
renewable and traditional energy
development, mineral resources, land
use authorizations, livestock grazing,
biological resources, special
designations, lands with wilderness
characteristics, and other resource uses
and considerations on approximately
404,000 acres of public land and 1.2
million acres of Federal mineral estate.
The Approved RMP will apply only to
the BLM-administered public lands and
Federal mineral estate in the planning
area.
The Proposed RMP/Final EIS analyzes
five management alternatives:
• The No Action alternative
(Alternative A) would continue current
management under the existing 1997
Caliente RMP and 1984 Hollister RMP,
as amended.
• The Proposed Plan (Alternative B)
strives to balance resource conservation
and ecosystem health with the
production of commodities and public
use of the land.
• Alternative C emphasizes
conserving cultural and natural
resources, maintaining functioning
natural systems, and restoring natural
systems that are degraded.
• Alternative D follows Alternative C
in all aspects except with regard to
livestock grazing. Alternative D would
eliminate livestock grazing from BLM
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managed lands in the planning area for
the life of this land use plan.
• Alternative E emphasizes the
production of natural resources and
commodities while emphasizing public
use opportunities.
The Proposed RMP/Final EIS would
establish 18 Areas of Critical
Environmental Concern, totaling
approximately 99,500 acres, to provide
special management for the protection
of relevant and important biological,
cultural, geologic, and paleontological
resource values. The proposed plan
would also apply protective
management to approximately 3,470
acres of lands with wilderness
characteristics in six different areas.
Public lands available for energy
development, land use authorizations,
livestock grazing, systems of designated
travel routes, and other uses would be
provided for under the proposed plan,
which would delineate and, as
necessary, apply limitations on these
uses. In addition, management
parameters and prescriptions would be
applied to a variety of natural and
cultural resources, including air and
atmospheric values, water quality,
special status plant and animal species,
and other components of the biological,
physical, and cultural environment.
The land use planning process was
initiated on March 4, 2008, through a
Notice of Intent published in the
Federal Register (73 FR 11661). A
Notice of Availability of the Draft RMP/
Draft EIS was published on September
9, 2011, in the Federal Register (76 FR
55941) to announce a 90-day public
review and comment period. During
that period, the BLM held public openhouse meetings in Bakersfield, San Luis
Obispo, Lake Isabella, Three Rivers,
Taft, and Prather to assist the public in
their review of the Draft RMP/Draft EIS
and to solicit their comments. The Draft
RMP/Draft EIS was sent to multiple
Federal, State, and local government
agencies and interested parties and was
made publicly available for viewing at
the Bakersfield Field Office, the
California State Office, various public
libraries, and on the Internet.
During the comment period, the
Bakersfield Field Office received 274
written comment submissions from
comment forms, which were completed
during one of the public open-house
meetings, as well as comment letters
and emails. Each submission was
carefully reviewed to identify
substantive comments in accordance
with the implementing regulations of
NEPA (40 CFR 1503.4).
Comments on the Draft RMP/Draft EIS
received from the public and internal
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[CACA-51625, LLCAD07000, L51010000, ER0000, LVRWB10B3800]
Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for San Diego
Gas and Electric's East County Substation Project, San Diego County, CA
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the availability
of the Record of Decision (ROD) for San Diego Gas and Electric's
(SDG&E) East County (ECO) Substation Project, located in San Diego
County, California. The Secretary of the Interior approved the ROD on
August 21, 2012, which constitutes the final decision of the
Department.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the ROD have been sent to responsible Federal,
State, and local government agencies and other interested stakholders,
and are available upon request from the Field Manager, BLM El Centro
Field Office, 1661 S. 4th Street, El Centro, California 92243, and the
BLM California Desert District Office, 22835 Calle San Juan de Los
Lagos, Moreno Valley, California 92553, or via the Internet at the
following Web site: https://www.ca.blm.gov/elcentro.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: R. Brian Paul, Project Manager,
telephone 760-337-4400; address BLM California Desert District Office,
22835 Calle San Juan de Los Lagos, Moreno Valley, California 92553-
9046; email catulewind@blm.gov.
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: SDG&E filed right-of-way (ROW) application
CACA-51625 for the ECO Substation Project. The ECO Substation Project
will provide an interconnection hub for renewable generation along
SDG&E's existing Southwest Powerlink (SWPL) 500-kilovolt (kV)
transmission line. The project will consist of a 500/230/138 kV
substation; a SWPL Loop-In (a short loop-in of the existing SWPL
transmission line to the proposed ECO Susbstation); the rebuilt
Boulevard Substation (an existing substation); and a 13.9-mile 138 kV
transmission line connecting the new ECO Substation to the rebuilt
Boulevard Substation, 0.8 mile of which is on public lands administered
by the BLM (the reminder is located on private lands subject to the
permitting authority of the California Public Utilties Commission).
Through the ROD, the BLM approves the 0.8-mile portion of the 138 kV
transmission line on BLM-administered public land, and makes no
decision regarding those portions of the ECO Substation Project or
other projects analyzed in the Final Environmental Impact Statement/
Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) that are not located on BLM-
managed lands.
The project site is located approximately 70 miles east of downtown
San Diego, south of Interstate 8, east of the town of Jacumba and along
Old Highway 80, in San Diego County, California, within Township 18
South, Ranges 8 East, Section(s) 02, 03, 10, and 11.
The BLM preferred alternative would allow the construction,
operation, maintenance, and termination of the 0.8-mile underground
segment of the project's 138 kV transmission line on BLM-managed lands,
which is necessary for the construction of the ECO Substation Project.
In addition to the ECO Substation Project, the Final EIS/EIR evaluated
a ROW application by Tule Wind, LLC to construct the Tule Wind Project,
as well as the Energia Sierra Juarez Project, and Gen-Tie, Campo,
Manzanita wind energy projects. Although these project components were
analyzed in the same EIS/EIR, only the 0.8-mile underground segment of
the ECO Substation Project 138 kV transmission line and portions of the
Tule Wind Project would be located on BLM-managed lands. The BLM issued
a separate decision on Tule Wind, LLC's ROW application on December 20,
2011.
This agency preferred alternative was evaluated in the Final EIS/
EIR. The Notice of Availability of the Final EIS/EIR for the ECO
Substation Project was published in the Federal Register on October 14,
2011 (76 FR 381).
Because this decision is approved by the Secretary of the Interior,
it is not
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subject to administrative appeal (43 CFR 4.410(a) (3)).
Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6
Mike Pool,
Acting Director, Bureau of Land Management.
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