Notice of Availability of the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendment for the Silver State Solar South Project, Clark County, NV, 57880-57881 [2013-22877]
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the emailed protest as an advance copy
and it will receive full consideration. If
you wish to provide the BLM with such
advance notification, please direct
emails to bhudgens@blm.gov. All
protests, including the follow-up letter
to emails, must be in writing and mailed
to the appropriate address as set forth in
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email address, or other personal
identifying information in your protest,
you should be aware that your entire
protest—including your personal
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you can ask us in your protest to
withhold your personal identifying
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cannot guarantee that we will be able to
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Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10,
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Notice of Availability of the Final
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement and Proposed Resource
Management Plan Amendment for the
Silver State Solar South Project, Clark
County, NV
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
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
Final Supplemental Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS)/Proposed
Resource Management Plan (RMP)
Amendment for the Silver State Solar
South Project located on public lands
east of Primm, Nevada, 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 BLM’s Final
Supplemental EIS/Proposed RMP
Amendment. A person who meets the
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conditions and files a protest must file
the protest within 30 days of the date
that the Environmental Protection
Agency publishes its Notice of
Availability in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Silver State
Solar South Project Final Supplemental
EIS/Proposed RMP Amendment have
been sent to affected Federal, State, and
local government agencies and to other
stakeholders including the Las Vegas
Paiute Tribe, the Fort Mojave Indian
Tribe, the Colorado River Indian Tribes,
the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, the
Moapa Band of Paiutes, and the
Pahrump Paiute Tribe. Copies of the
Silver State Solar South Final
Supplemental EIS/Proposed RMP
Amendment are available for public
inspection at the BLM Southern Nevada
District Office at 4701 North Torrey
Pines Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Interested persons may also review the
Final Supplemental EIS/Proposed RMP
Amendment on the Internet at https://
www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/lvfo/blm_
programs/energy/Silver_State_Solar_
South.html. All protests must be in
writing and mailed to one of the
following addresses:
Regular Mail: BLM Director (210),
Attention: Brenda Hudgens-Williams,
P.O. Box 71383, Washington, DC
20024–1383
Overnight Mail: BLM Director (210),
Attention: Brenda Hudgens-Williams,
20 M Street SE, Room 2134LM
Washington, DC 20003
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nancy Christ, Renewable Energy Project
Manager, telephone 702–515–5136;
address 4701 North Torrey Pines Drive,
Las Vegas, NV 89130–2301; or email
nchrist@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: Silver
State Solar Power South, LLC, has
submitted a right-of-way (ROW)
application for the construction,
operation, maintenance, and
termination of a 250–350 megawatt
(MW) solar energy generation facility
within a 13,184-acre area of public land
east of Primm, Nevada. The ROW
application is assigned BLM case
number N–89530. This application
expands on ROW application N–85801.
The proposed solar energy project
would consist of photovoltaic (PV)
panels and related infrastructure ROW
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appurtenances, including a substation
and switchyard facilities, and would
produce about 250 MWs of electricity
under the BLM Preferred Alternative.
The solar field and infrastructure would
consist of single-axis tracker systems or
fixed panels, an underground and
overhead electrical power collection
system, two step-up transformers, 230
kilovolt (kV) and 220 kV transmission
lines, an operation and maintenance
area, a switchyard, paved access and
maintenance roads, flood and drainage
controls, and a fire break. If approved,
the Silver State Solar South Project
would have a footprint of between 2,427
acres and 3,881 acres, depending on the
EIS alternative chosen and the final site
configuration. The ROW grant would
only be issued for lands needed for
project development; no ROW would be
granted for the remaining acreage within
the application area.
The Final Supplemental EIS
addresses new information associated
with N–89530 and updates as necessary
the consideration of N–85801, which
was analyzed in the Final EIS for the
Silver State Solar Energy Project, a 400–
MW PV solar energy facility. The BLM
approved a Record of Decision on
October 12, 2010, for the Silver State
Solar Energy Project, and authorized
ROW N–85077 for the construction and
operation a 50 MW PV solar energy
facility on 618 acres of BLMadministered lands, which represented
the first phase of project development
and became the Silver State Solar North
Project. The Record of Decision did not
authorize ROW application N–85801,
which is now included as part of the
Silver State Solar South Project, along
with ROW application N–89530. The
BLM would need to amend the October
1998 Las Vegas RMP to address
proposed changes in land and resource
use within the Jean Lake/Roach Lake
Special Recreation Management Area in
order to approve ROW application
N–89530. The BLM has considered
additional changes that would amend
the Las Vegas RMP, including a
proposed nomination for an Area of
Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC)
within the Ivanpah Valley, and a Visual
Resource Management change within
the project boundary from Class III to
Class IV.
The Final Supplemental EIS analyzes
five alternatives, including a no action
alternative (Alternative A) and four
action alternatives. Alternative B is
Silver State’s original proposal (as
described in their Plan of Development
dated July 2011). This alternative was
introduced in initial scoping meetings
and does not include perimeter roads.
Alternative B would disturb up to 3,881
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acres of Federal land. Alternative C
would disturb up to 2,546 acres of
Federal lands, and is the project layout
for Phases II and III that were previously
evaluated in the 2010 Final EIS.
Alternative D would disturb up to 3,110
acres of Federal land and is a modified
layout of Silver State’s original proposal
(Alternative B above) that would allow
access through a historically-used
recreation route, avoid impacts to
interstate drainages, and reduce impacts
to desert tortoise and other special
status species. The BLM Preferred
Alternative is a modification of
Alternative D and was developed after
release of the Draft Supplemental EIS/
Proposed RMP Amendment to address
public and agency concerns related to
desert tortoise demographic
connectivity within the Ivanpah Valley
and agency and public interest in a
reduced-scale project. The BLM
Preferred Alternative is smaller in area
than other analyzed project alternatives
and reduces electricity generation
capacity to 250 MWs. The BLM
Preferred Alternative would disturb up
to 2,427 acres of Federal land entirely
within the footprint of alternatives
analyzed in the Draft Supplemental EIS/
Proposed RMP Amendment, and thus
involves no new areas of effect. The
BLM Preferred Alternative also includes
a 31,859-acre area for designation as an
ACEC and management prescriptions
that would be required for the
designated ACEC.
The Final Supplemental EIS/Proposed
RMP Amendment describes and
analyzes the project’s site-specific
impacts on air quality, biological
resources, cultural resources, special
designations (the Special Recreation
Management Area), water resources, and
geological resources and hazards. Also
analyzed were land and airspace use,
noise, paleontological resources, public
health, socioeconomics, soils, traffic and
transportation, visual resources,
wilderness characteristics, waste
management, worker safety, fire
protection, and hazardous materials
handling; as well as facility-design
engineering, efficiency, reliability,
transmission-system engineering,
transmission line safety, and nuisance
issues.
On October 15, 2012, the BLM
published the Notice of Availability for
the Draft Supplemental EIS/Proposed
RMP Amendment for this proposal in
the Federal Register (77 FR 62525). The
BLM accepted public comments at three
public meetings in Primm, Las Vegas,
and Jean, Nevada, and by email, mail,
and fax during a 90-day comment
period. The BLM received 381 comment
submissions from individuals,
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organizations, and agencies. Comments
primarily pertained to evaluation of an
additional conservation alternative,
consideration of desert tortoise
demographic connectivity, and delay of
the Final Supplemental EIS/Proposed
RMP Amendment until after a regional
analysis of tortoise connectivity is
completed. The BLM also received
statements in support of, or opposition
to, the proposal.
Comments on the Draft Supplemental
EIS/Proposed RMP Amendment
received from the public and internal
BLM review were considered and
incorporated as appropriate into the
proposed project and plan amendment.
Public comments resulted in the
addition of substantive revisions since
the Draft Supplemental EIS/Proposed
RMP Amendment was published in
October 2012. Substantive revisions
include (1) identification of a reduced
scale BLM Preferred Alternative to
address public and agency concerns
related to desert tortoise connectivity
within the Ivanpah Valley;
(2) additional mitigation measures
developed in response to input from
resource agencies and stakeholder
discussion; and (3) designation of a
31,859-acre ACEC. Minor revisions were
also made to correct project acreage;
these revisions are identified throughout
the document.
Instructions for filing a protest with
the Director of the BLM regarding the
Proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS
may be found in the ‘‘Dear Reader’’
letter of the Silver State Solar South
Project Final Supplemental EIS/
Proposed RMP Amendment and at 43
CFR 1610.5–2. All protests must be in
writing and mailed to the appropriate
address, as set forth in the ADDRESSES
section above. Emailed protests will not
be accepted as valid protests unless the
protesting party also provides the
original letter by either regular or
overnight mail postmarked by the close
of the protest period. Under these
conditions, the BLM will consider the
email as an advance copy and it will
receive full consideration. If you wish to
provide the BLM with such advance
notification, please direct emails to
Brenda_Hudgens-Williams@blm.gov.
Before including your phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your protest,
you should be aware that your entire
protest—including your personal
identifying information—may be made
publicly available at any time. While
you can ask us in your protest to
withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
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Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR
1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2; 43 CFR 1610.5.
Gayle Marrs-Smith,
Las Vegas Field Manager (Acting).
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLNVS03000. L51010000.ER0000. LVRWF1304100; N-85801, N-89530, N-90050,
and N-90823; MO 4500053894; TAS: 14X5017]
Notice of Availability of the Final Supplemental Environmental
Impact Statement and Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendment for
the Silver State Solar South Project, Clark County, NV
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
Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/Proposed
Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment for the Silver State Solar
South Project located on public lands east of Primm, Nevada, 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 BLM's Final
Supplemental EIS/Proposed RMP Amendment. A person who meets the
conditions and files a protest must file the protest within 30 days of
the date that the Environmental Protection Agency publishes its Notice
of Availability in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Silver State Solar South Project Final
Supplemental EIS/Proposed RMP Amendment have been sent to affected
Federal, State, and local government agencies and to other stakeholders
including the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, the
Colorado River Indian Tribes, the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, the Moapa
Band of Paiutes, and the Pahrump Paiute Tribe. Copies of the Silver
State Solar South Final Supplemental EIS/Proposed RMP Amendment are
available for public inspection at the BLM Southern Nevada District
Office at 4701 North Torrey Pines Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada. Interested
persons may also review the Final Supplemental EIS/Proposed RMP
Amendment on the Internet at https://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/lvfo/blm_programs/energy/Silver_State_Solar_South.html. All protests must be
in writing and mailed to one of the following addresses:
Regular Mail: BLM Director (210), Attention: Brenda Hudgens-Williams,
P.O. Box 71383, Washington, DC 20024-1383
Overnight Mail: BLM Director (210), Attention: Brenda Hudgens-Williams,
20 M Street SE, Room 2134LM Washington, DC 20003
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Christ, Renewable Energy Project
Manager, telephone 702-515-5136; address 4701 North Torrey Pines Drive,
Las Vegas, NV 89130-2301; or email nchrist@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: Silver State Solar Power South, LLC, has
submitted a right-of-way (ROW) application for the construction,
operation, maintenance, and termination of a 250-350 megawatt (MW)
solar energy generation facility within a 13,184-acre area of public
land east of Primm, Nevada. The ROW application is assigned BLM case
number N-89530. This application expands on ROW application N-85801.
The proposed solar energy project would consist of photovoltaic (PV)
panels and related infrastructure ROW appurtenances, including a
substation and switchyard facilities, and would produce about 250 MWs
of electricity under the BLM Preferred Alternative. The solar field and
infrastructure would consist of single-axis tracker systems or fixed
panels, an underground and overhead electrical power collection system,
two step-up transformers, 230 kilovolt (kV) and 220 kV transmission
lines, an operation and maintenance area, a switchyard, paved access
and maintenance roads, flood and drainage controls, and a fire break.
If approved, the Silver State Solar South Project would have a
footprint of between 2,427 acres and 3,881 acres, depending on the EIS
alternative chosen and the final site configuration. The ROW grant
would only be issued for lands needed for project development; no ROW
would be granted for the remaining acreage within the application area.
The Final Supplemental EIS addresses new information associated
with N-89530 and updates as necessary the consideration of N-85801,
which was analyzed in the Final EIS for the Silver State Solar Energy
Project, a 400-MW PV solar energy facility. The BLM approved a Record
of Decision on October 12, 2010, for the Silver State Solar Energy
Project, and authorized ROW N-85077 for the construction and operation
a 50 MW PV solar energy facility on 618 acres of BLM-administered
lands, which represented the first phase of project development and
became the Silver State Solar North Project. The Record of Decision did
not authorize ROW application N-85801, which is now included as part of
the Silver State Solar South Project, along with ROW application N-
89530. The BLM would need to amend the October 1998 Las Vegas RMP to
address proposed changes in land and resource use within the Jean Lake/
Roach Lake Special Recreation Management Area in order to approve ROW
application N-89530. The BLM has considered additional changes that
would amend the Las Vegas RMP, including a proposed nomination for an
Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) within the Ivanpah
Valley, and a Visual Resource Management change within the project
boundary from Class III to Class IV.
The Final Supplemental EIS analyzes five alternatives, including a
no action alternative (Alternative A) and four action alternatives.
Alternative B is Silver State's original proposal (as described in
their Plan of Development dated July 2011). This alternative was
introduced in initial scoping meetings and does not include perimeter
roads. Alternative B would disturb up to 3,881
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acres of Federal land. Alternative C would disturb up to 2,546 acres of
Federal lands, and is the project layout for Phases II and III that
were previously evaluated in the 2010 Final EIS. Alternative D would
disturb up to 3,110 acres of Federal land and is a modified layout of
Silver State's original proposal (Alternative B above) that would allow
access through a historically-used recreation route, avoid impacts to
interstate drainages, and reduce impacts to desert tortoise and other
special status species. The BLM Preferred Alternative is a modification
of Alternative D and was developed after release of the Draft
Supplemental EIS/Proposed RMP Amendment to address public and agency
concerns related to desert tortoise demographic connectivity within the
Ivanpah Valley and agency and public interest in a reduced-scale
project. The BLM Preferred Alternative is smaller in area than other
analyzed project alternatives and reduces electricity generation
capacity to 250 MWs. The BLM Preferred Alternative would disturb up to
2,427 acres of Federal land entirely within the footprint of
alternatives analyzed in the Draft Supplemental EIS/Proposed RMP
Amendment, and thus involves no new areas of effect. The BLM Preferred
Alternative also includes a 31,859-acre area for designation as an ACEC
and management prescriptions that would be required for the designated
ACEC.
The Final Supplemental EIS/Proposed RMP Amendment describes and
analyzes the project's site-specific impacts on air quality, biological
resources, cultural resources, special designations (the Special
Recreation Management Area), water resources, and geological resources
and hazards. Also analyzed were land and airspace use, noise,
paleontological resources, public health, socioeconomics, soils,
traffic and transportation, visual resources, wilderness
characteristics, waste management, worker safety, fire protection, and
hazardous materials handling; as well as facility-design engineering,
efficiency, reliability, transmission-system engineering, transmission
line safety, and nuisance issues.
On October 15, 2012, the BLM published the Notice of Availability
for the Draft Supplemental EIS/Proposed RMP Amendment for this proposal
in the Federal Register (77 FR 62525). The BLM accepted public comments
at three public meetings in Primm, Las Vegas, and Jean, Nevada, and by
email, mail, and fax during a 90-day comment period. The BLM received
381 comment submissions from individuals, organizations, and agencies.
Comments primarily pertained to evaluation of an additional
conservation alternative, consideration of desert tortoise demographic
connectivity, and delay of the Final Supplemental EIS/Proposed RMP
Amendment until after a regional analysis of tortoise connectivity is
completed. The BLM also received statements in support of, or
opposition to, the proposal.
Comments on the Draft Supplemental EIS/Proposed RMP Amendment
received from the public and internal BLM review were considered and
incorporated as appropriate into the proposed project and plan
amendment. Public comments resulted in the addition of substantive
revisions since the Draft Supplemental EIS/Proposed RMP Amendment was
published in October 2012. Substantive revisions include (1)
identification of a reduced scale BLM Preferred Alternative to address
public and agency concerns related to desert tortoise connectivity
within the Ivanpah Valley; (2) additional mitigation measures developed
in response to input from resource agencies and stakeholder discussion;
and (3) designation of a 31,859-acre ACEC. Minor revisions were also
made to correct project acreage; these revisions are identified
throughout the document.
Instructions for filing a protest with the Director of the BLM
regarding the Proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS may be found in the
``Dear Reader'' letter of the Silver State Solar South Project Final
Supplemental EIS/Proposed RMP Amendment and at 43 CFR 1610.5-2. All
protests must be in writing and mailed to the appropriate address, as
set forth in the ADDRESSES section above. Emailed protests will not be
accepted as valid protests unless the protesting party also provides
the original letter by either regular or overnight mail postmarked by
the close of the protest period. Under these conditions, the BLM will
consider the email as an advance copy and it will receive full
consideration. If you wish to provide the BLM with such advance
notification, please direct emails to Brenda_Hudgens-Williams@blm.gov.
Before including your phone number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your protest, you should be aware
that your entire protest--including your personal identifying
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can
ask us in your protest 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; 43 CFR
1610.5.
Gayle Marrs-Smith,
Las Vegas Field Manager (Acting).
[FR Doc. 2013-22877 Filed 9-19-13; 8:45 am]
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