Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Long Canyon Mine Project, Elko County, NV, 1430-1431 [2015-00067]
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Notice of Availability of the Final
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Long Canyon Mine Project, Elko
County, NV
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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 Environmental Impact Statement
(FEIS) for the Long Canyon Mine Project
and by this notice is announcing its
availability.
SUMMARY:
The BLM will not issue a final
decision on the proposal for a minimum
of 30 days from the date that the
Environmental Protection Agency
publishes its notice in the Federal
Register.
DATES:
Copies of the FEIS for the
Long Canyon Mine Project are available
for public inspection at the BLM Elko
District Office. Interested persons may
also review the FEIS on the Internet at
www.blm.gov/rv5c.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information contact Whitney
Wirthlin, Project Manager; telephone:
775–861–6400; address: 1340 Financial
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Blvd., Reno, NV 89502; email: BLM_
NV_ELDOLongCanyonMine@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: Newmont
Mining Corporation (Newmont)
proposes to construct and operate an
open-pit gold mining operation, which
would include one open pit, a heap
leach pad, one waste rock dump, a
tailings storage facility, a natural gas
pipeline from the existing Ruby
Pipeline, an onsite power generation
plant, and other ancillary facilities. The
mine would be located on the eastern
side of the Pequop Mountain Range,
about 30 miles east of Wells, Nevada,
and 32 miles west of West Wendover,
Nevada, and 5 miles south of Interstate
80. Currently, Fronteer Development
(Fronteer), a subsidiary of Newmont, is
authorized to disturb up to 115 acres for
exploration purposes. The associated
disturbance for the proposed operations
would increase to 1,631 acres of public
land, including 480 acres of split estate
lands of Federal surface and private
subsurface. The projected life of the
mine is 8 to 14 years, including
construction, operations, and closure
and post-closure monitoring. An
estimated annual workforce for
operations would be approximately 300
to 500 people during the life of the
mine.
Fronteer is currently conducting
exploration activities in this area which
were analyzed in two environmental
assessments (EA), the NewWest Gold
USA Inc. Long Canyon Exploration
Project (July 2008, EA No. BLM/EK/PL–
2008/011) and Fronteer Development
(USA) Inc. Expanded Long Canyon
Exploration Project (June 2011, DOI–
BLM–NV–N030–2011–00001–EA). The
proposed Long Canyon Mine is in
conformance with the Wells Resource
Management Plan (RMP) and the
proposal is in conformance with the
approved decisions of the RMP.
The FEIS describes and analyzes the
proposed project site-specific impacts
(including cumulative) on all affected
resources. Two alternatives are
analyzed: the North Facilities
Alternative and the No Action
Alternative. The North Facilities
Alternative was designed in response to
several environmental issues raised by
scoping comments. Under the North
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Facilities Alternative, most of the mine
facilities would be moved to the
northern portion of the project area.
This alternative addresses impacts to
several wildlife species, cultural
resources, and responds to requests
from the cities of West Wendover,
Nevada and Wendover, Utah related to
potential impacts to their water supply.
Six other alternatives were considered
but eliminated from further analysis.
Mitigation measures are considered to
minimize environmental impacts and to
assure the proposed action does not
result in unnecessary or undue
degradation of public lands.
The Draft EIS for the Long Canyon
Mine Project was published and
available for review on March 21, 2014
(79 FR 15773). A 45-day comment
period occurred. The BLM received a
total of 34 written comment
submissions containing 105 individual
items during the public comment period
on the Draft EIS. The comments the
BLM received were submitted by
Federal and State agencies as well as
members of the general public. Key
issues raised during the public comment
period include: Potential impacts to
water resources utilized by the cities of
West Wendover, NV and Wendover, UT,
including the Johnson Springs system;
potential impacts to visual resources, air
quality, cultural resources and the
Hastings Cutoff of the California
National Historic Trail, the mule deer
migration corridor, and wetland and
riparian resources; and potential
positive impacts to local communities.
The BLM has prepared the Final EIS
in conjunction with its eight
Cooperating Agencies: Nevada
Department of Wildlife, Elko County,
City of Elko, City of West Wendover,
City of Wendover, Utah; the
Confederated Tribes of the Goshute
Indian Reservation, the Nevada Division
of Environmental Protection, and the
Environmental Protection Agency.
Comments on the Draft EIS received
from the public and internal BLM
review were considered and
incorporated as appropriate into the
FEIS. Public comments resulted in the
addition of clarifying text, but did not
significantly change the analysis.
Following a 30-day FEIS availability
and review period, a Record of Decision
(ROD) will be issued. The decision
reached in the ROD is subject to appeal
to the Interior Board of Land Appeals.
The 30-day appeal period begins with
the issuance of the ROD.
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day public comment period was opened
through notification in the Federal
Register (79 FR 68912). In response to
requests from the public, the comment
period is being extended for an
additional 18 days. The comment period
will now officially close on March 13,
2015.
Bryan K. Fuell,
Field Manager, Wells Field Office.
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Background
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November 19, 2014, Federal Register
notice.
Bureau of Reclamation
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Notice of Public Review and Comment
Period Extension for the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for
Central Valley Project Municipal and
Industrial Water Shortage Policy,
Central Valley, California
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Reclamation is
extending the public review and
comment period for the Central Valley
Project Municipal and Industrial Water
Shortage Policy Draft Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS). The Draft EIS
was initially noticed by Reclamation on
November 19, 2014 and public
comments were originally due on
January 12, 2015. In response to public
requests, the comment period is being
extended until March 13, 2015.
DATES: Send written comments on the
Draft EIS on or before March 13, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments or
requests for copies to Mr. Tim Rust,
Bureau of Reclamation, Resources
Management Division, 2800 Cottage
Way, Sacramento, CA 95825, or via
email to trust@usbr.gov.
To request a compact disc of the Draft
EIS, please contact Mr. Tim Rust as
indicated above, or call (916) 978–5516.
The Draft EIS may be viewed at
Reclamation’s Web site at https://
www.usbr.gov/mp/cvp/mandi/
index.html. See Supplementary
Information section for locations where
copies of the Draft EIS are available for
public review.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Tim Rust, Program Manager, Bureau of
Reclamation, via email at trust@
usbr.gov, or at (916) 978–5516; or Mr.
Michael Inthavong, Natural Resources
Specialist, Bureau of Reclamation, via
email at minthavong@usbr.gov, or at
(559) 487–5295.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
comment period is being extended for
the Central Valley Project Municipal
and Industrial Water Shortage Policy
draft EIS. On November 19, 2014, a 53-
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Public Review of Draft EIS
Copies of the Draft EIS are available
for public review at the following
locations:
1. Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific
Region, Regional Library, 2800 Cottage
Way, Sacramento, CA 95825.
2. Natural Resources Library, U.S.
Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street
NW., Main Interior Building,
Washington, DC 20240–0001.
Public Disclosure
Before including your address, phone
number, email 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.
Dated: December 17, 2014.
Pablo R. Arroyave,
Deputy Regional Director.
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Notice of Availability of a Draft
Environmental Impact Statement and
Notice of Public Meetings for the
Kachess Drought Relief Pumping Plant
and Keechelus Reservoir-to-Kachess
Reservoir Conveyance, Kittitas and
Yakima Counties, Washington
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Reclamation
and Washington State Department of
Ecology have made available for public
review and comment the Kachess
Drought Relief Pumping Plant and
SUMMARY:
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Keechelus Reservoir-to-Kachess
Reservoir Conveyance Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
The Draft EIS describes the potential
environmental effects of the No Action
Alternative and five action alternatives.
The action alternatives examine
constructing and operating a pumping
plant to access up to 200,000 acre-feet
of water in Kachess Reservoir during
drought years and conveying it to the
Kachess River for irrigation use within
the Yakima Project, and constructing
and operating a gravity flow tunnel from
Keechelus Reservoir to Kachess
Reservoir that could convey up to 400
cubic feet of water per second to
Kachess Reservoir. The action
alternatives include activities to
enhance the resiliency of bull trout
populations in the Kachess and
Keechelus watersheds as well as
elsewhere in the Yakima River basin.
DATES: Send written comments on the
Draft EIS on or before March 10, 2015.
Two public meetings will be held on
the following dates:
1. Tuesday, February 3, 2015, 4:00
p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Ellensburg, WA.
2. Thursday, February 5, 2015, 4:00
p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Cle Elum, WA.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments or
requests for copies to Ms. Candace
McKinley, Bureau of Reclamation, 1917
Marsh Road, Yakima, WA 98901; or via
email to kkbt@usbr.gov. The Draft EIS is
also accessible on the following Web
sites: https://www.usbr.gov/pn/
programs/eis/kdrpp/ and
https://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/eis/
kkc/.
The public meeting locations are:
1. Ellensburg—Hal Holmes
Community Center, 209 N. Ruby Street,
Ellensburg, Washington 98926;
2. Cle Elum—U.S. Forest Service, Cle
Elum Ranger District, Tom Craven
Conference Room, 803 W. 2nd Street,
Cle Elum, Washington 98922.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Candace McKinley, 509–575–5848, ext.
603; or by email at kkbt@usbr.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This EIS
was previously identified in the Notice
of Intent to Prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement as ‘‘Keechelus
Reservoir-to-Kachess Reservoir
Conveyance and Kachess Inactive
Storage.’’ The name was changed to
better reflect the proposed action
evaluated in the EIS.
The Draft EIS documents the potential
direct, indirect, and cumulative
physical, biological, and socioeconomic
environmental effects that may result
from the new pumping plant at Kachess
Reservoir, water conveyance from
Keechelus Reservoir to Kachess
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Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact
Statement for the Long Canyon Mine Project, Elko County, NV
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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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 Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Long Canyon Mine
Project and by this notice is announcing its availability.
DATES: The BLM will not issue a final decision on the proposal for a
minimum of 30 days from the date that the Environmental Protection
Agency publishes its notice in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the FEIS for the Long Canyon Mine Project are
available for public inspection at the BLM Elko District Office.
Interested persons may also review the FEIS on the Internet at
www.blm.gov/rv5c.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information contact
Whitney Wirthlin, Project Manager; telephone: 775-861-6400; address:
1340 Financial Blvd., Reno, NV 89502; email:
BLM_NV_ELDOLongCanyonMine@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: Newmont Mining Corporation (Newmont)
proposes to construct and operate an open-pit gold mining operation,
which would include one open pit, a heap leach pad, one waste rock
dump, a tailings storage facility, a natural gas pipeline from the
existing Ruby Pipeline, an onsite power generation plant, and other
ancillary facilities. The mine would be located on the eastern side of
the Pequop Mountain Range, about 30 miles east of Wells, Nevada, and 32
miles west of West Wendover, Nevada, and 5 miles south of Interstate
80. Currently, Fronteer Development (Fronteer), a subsidiary of
Newmont, is authorized to disturb up to 115 acres for exploration
purposes. The associated disturbance for the proposed operations would
increase to 1,631 acres of public land, including 480 acres of split
estate lands of Federal surface and private subsurface. The projected
life of the mine is 8 to 14 years, including construction, operations,
and closure and post-closure monitoring. An estimated annual workforce
for operations would be approximately 300 to 500 people during the life
of the mine.
Fronteer is currently conducting exploration activities in this
area which were analyzed in two environmental assessments (EA), the
NewWest Gold USA Inc. Long Canyon Exploration Project (July 2008, EA
No. BLM/EK/PL-2008/011) and Fronteer Development (USA) Inc. Expanded
Long Canyon Exploration Project (June 2011, DOI-BLM-NV-N030-2011-00001-
EA). The proposed Long Canyon Mine is in conformance with the Wells
Resource Management Plan (RMP) and the proposal is in conformance with
the approved decisions of the RMP.
The FEIS describes and analyzes the proposed project site-specific
impacts (including cumulative) on all affected resources. Two
alternatives are analyzed: the North Facilities Alternative and the No
Action Alternative. The North Facilities Alternative was designed in
response to several environmental issues raised by scoping comments.
Under the North Facilities Alternative, most of the mine facilities
would be moved to the northern portion of the project area. This
alternative addresses impacts to several wildlife species, cultural
resources, and responds to requests from the cities of West Wendover,
Nevada and Wendover, Utah related to potential impacts to their water
supply.
Six other alternatives were considered but eliminated from further
analysis. Mitigation measures are considered to minimize environmental
impacts and to assure the proposed action does not result in
unnecessary or undue degradation of public lands.
The Draft EIS for the Long Canyon Mine Project was published and
available for review on March 21, 2014 (79 FR 15773). A 45-day comment
period occurred. The BLM received a total of 34 written comment
submissions containing 105 individual items during the public comment
period on the Draft EIS. The comments the BLM received were submitted
by Federal and State agencies as well as members of the general public.
Key issues raised during the public comment period include: Potential
impacts to water resources utilized by the cities of West Wendover, NV
and Wendover, UT, including the Johnson Springs system; potential
impacts to visual resources, air quality, cultural resources and the
Hastings Cutoff of the California National Historic Trail, the mule
deer migration corridor, and wetland and riparian resources; and
potential positive impacts to local communities.
The BLM has prepared the Final EIS in conjunction with its eight
Cooperating Agencies: Nevada Department of Wildlife, Elko County, City
of Elko, City of West Wendover, City of Wendover, Utah; the
Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Indian Reservation, the Nevada
Division of Environmental Protection, and the Environmental Protection
Agency. Comments on the Draft EIS received from the public and internal
BLM review were considered and incorporated as appropriate into the
FEIS. Public comments resulted in the addition of clarifying text, but
did not significantly change the analysis.
Following a 30-day FEIS availability and review period, a Record of
Decision (ROD) will be issued. The decision reached in the ROD is
subject to appeal to the Interior Board of Land Appeals. The 30-day
appeal period begins with the issuance of the ROD.
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Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6; 40 CFR 1506.10.
Bryan K. Fuell,
Field Manager, Wells Field Office.
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