Notice of Availability of the Crimson Solar Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Impact Report and Draft Land Use Plan Amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area Plan, 58738-58739 [2019-23825]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Notice of Availability of the Crimson
Solar Project Draft Environmental
Impact Statement and Environmental
Impact Report and Draft Land Use Plan
Amendment to the California Desert
Conservation Area Plan
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) 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 Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS), Environmental Impact Report
(EIR), and draft Land Use Plan
Amendment to the California Desert
Conservation Area Plan (CDCA) for the
Crimson Solar Project (Project), and by
this notice is announcing the opening of
the 90-day public comment period.
DATES: To ensure that all comments will
be considered, the BLM must receive
written comments on the draft plan
amendment and Draft EIS/EIR within 90
days following the date the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
publishes its Notice of Availability in
the Federal Register. The BLM will
announce future meetings and any other
public involvement activities at least 15
days in advance through public notices,
news releases, the project website, and/
or mailings.
ADDRESSES: The public may submit
comments related to the project during
the public comment period by using any
of the following methods:
• Website: https://bit.ly/2xntD5u
• Email: blm_ca_crimsonsolar@blm.gov
• Mail: Crimson Solar Project, Bureau of
Land Management Palm SpringsSouth Coast Field Office, 1201 Bird
Center Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Copies of the Draft EIS/EIR and draft
plan amendment are available at the
BLM-Palm Springs-South Coast Field
Office at the above address and at the
BLM California Desert District Office,
22835 Calle San Juan De Los Lagos,
Moreno Valley, CA 92553, and
electronically on the project website
referenced earlier.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Miriam Liberatore, BLM project
manager, telephone: (541) 618–2412;
email: mliberat@blm.gov; address
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Bureau of Land Management, 3040
Biddle Road, Medford, OR 97504.
Persons who use a telecommunication
device for the deaf may call the Federal
Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339
to contact Ms. Liberatore during normal
business hours. The FRS is available 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a
message or questions. You will receive
a reply during normal business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Sonoran
West Solar Holdings LLC (the
Applicant), a wholly owned subsidiary
of Recurrent Energy LLC, applied for a
right-of-way (ROW) grant for a
photovoltaic solar project with the BLM.
The applicant proposes to construct,
operate, maintain, and decommission a
maximum 350-megawatt solar
photovoltaic facility with integrated
battery storage and necessary ancillary
facilities, including project substations,
access roads, operations and
maintenance buildings, and lay down
areas. The proposed project includes
2,500 acres of BLM-administered land
in the Riverside East Solar Energy Zone.
The BLM is the lead NEPA agency
and will make Federal decisions
regarding the proposed plan amendment
and the ROW for the Project. The U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service is a
Cooperating Agency and will issue a
Biological Opinion for the project. The
EPA (Region 9) is a Cooperating Agency,
but does not have a direct permitting
role in the project. The California
Department of Fish and Wildlife is the
lead agency under the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and
will make State decisions on
applications filed by the Applicant for
an Incidental Take Permit and a Lake
and Streambed Alteration Agreement.
This Draft EIS/EIR was prepared as a
joint Federal/State environmental
document that analyzes the impacts of
the project under both NEPA and CEQA.
In addition to the proposed action
(Alternative A), the Draft EIS/EIR
considers a no action alternative and
two action alternatives. Alternative B,
Alternative Design, would include one
or more of three design elements to
reduce grading, trenching, and
vegetation removal during construction.
Alternative C, Reduced Acreage
Alternative, would be the same as
described under Alternative A in the
number and size of project-related
facilities, but the project area would be
reduced by about 300 acres. All
alternatives would amend the CDCA
plan to allow the project. Alternative C
is the BLM preferred alternative.
Public input on these alternatives or
other issues is important and will be
considered in the Final EIR/EIS.
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Please note that public comments and
information submitted, including
names, street addresses, and email
addresses of persons who submit
comments, will be available for public
review and disclosure at the address
listed in the ADDRESSES section during
regular business hours (8:00 a.m. to 4:00
p.m.), Monday through Friday, except
holidays.
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.
Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10,
43 CFR 1610.2.
Danielle Chi,
Deputy State Director, Resources.
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Notice of Availability of the Bakersfield
Field Office Hydraulic Fracturing Final
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement, California
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended (NEPA), the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) has prepared
a Final Supplemental Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) analyzing the
potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing
on new oil and gas leases within the
Bakersfield Field Office planning area,
and by this notice the BLM is
announcing its availability.
DATES: The BLM will not issue a final
decision on the proposal for a minimum
of 30 days after the date that the
Environmental Protection Agency
publishes its Notice of Availability in
the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Bakersfield
Field Office Hydraulic Fracturing Final
Supplemental EIS are available for
public inspection during regular
business hours at 3801 Pegasus Drive,
SUMMARY:
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Bakersfield, CA 93308. Interested
persons may also review the Final
Supplemental EIS online at https://
go.usa.gov/xE3Nw.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carly Summers, Supervisory Natural
Resources Specialist; telephone: 661–
391–6000; email: csummers@blm.gov;
address Bureau of Land Management,
3801 Pegasus Drive, Bakersfield, CA
93308. Persons who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Relay
Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to
contact Carly Summers during normal
business hours. The FRS is available 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a
message or question. You will receive a
reply during normal business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Bakersfield Field Office planning area is
located in eastern Fresno, western Kern,
Kings, Madera, San Luis Obispo, Santa
Barbara, Tulare, and Ventura counties in
California and encompasses
approximately 1.2 million acres of
Federal minerals and roughly 400,000
surface acres of BLM-managed public
land.
The supplemental environmental
analysis is being conducted in response
to a May 2017, U.S. District Court Order.
The U.S. District Court upheld the range
of alternatives analyzed in the 2012
Proposed Resource Management Plan
(RMP)/Final EIS. The five management
alternatives analyzed in the Proposed
RMP/Final EIS were:
• The No Action alternative
(Alternative A)—continue current
management under the existing 1997
Caliente RMP and 1984 Hollister RMP,
as amended;
• The Proposed Plan (Alternative
B)—balance resource conservation and
ecosystem health with the production of
commodities and public use of the land;
• Alternative C—emphasize
conserving cultural and natural
resources, maintaining functioning
natural systems, and restoring degraded
natural systems;
• Alternative D—same as Alternative
C, except that Alternative D would
eliminate livestock grazing from BLMmanaged lands in the planning area; and
• Alternative E—emphasize the
production of natural resources,
commodities and public use
opportunities.
The 2012 Proposed RMP/Final EIS
identified public lands available to
fluid-mineral leasing and no changes to
those designations are proposed through
the Final Supplemental EIS.
Preliminary resource issues were
presented for public scoping review and
comment in the August 8, 2018, Federal
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Register Notice of Intent (83 FR 39116).
Issues identified by BLM personnel;
Federal, State, and local agencies; and
other stakeholders and analyzed in the
Final Supplemental EIS include: Air
and atmospheric values; water quality
and quantity; seismicity; special status
species; and mineral resources (oil and
gas.)
The Draft Supplemental EIS was
available for a 45-day public comment
period initiated on April 26, 2019,
Federal Register Notice of Availability
(84 FR 17885). The BLM held public
meetings on May 21, 22, and 23, 2019,
in Bakersfield, San Luis Obispo, and
Santa Barbara, respectively.
Approximately 600 individuals
attended the three meetings and
approximately 16,000 written comments
were received through ePlanning and
standard mail.
Responses to substantive comments
are presented in Appendix B: Public
Comment Summary Report of the Final
Supplemental EIS.
The results of this final supplemental
analysis regarding the impacts of
hydraulic fracturing, additive to those
identified in the 2012 Final EIS, did not
show a notable increase in total impacts.
No conflicts were found between the
estimated impacts of hydraulic
fracturing and the resource or program
management goals and objectives stated
in the 2014 RMP. The range of
alternatives has not changed between
the approved 2014 RMP and its 2012
Final EIS and the Final Supplemental
EIS. Therefore, no amendment to the
2014 RMP is necessary. In addition, no
protest period is required because no
changes are proposed to the 2014 RMP
planning decisions. The BLM has fully
analyzed the effects of hydraulic
fracturing in accordance with the order
of the court, and although the 2012 EIS
has been supplemented, no changes are
proposed to the 2014 RMP planning
decisions. Because there are no changes
to the RMP, no protest period is
required and none is given.
The BLM has utilized and
coordinated the NEPA process to help
fulfill the public involvement process
under the National Historic Preservation
Act (54 U.S.C. 306108), as provided in
36 CFR 800.2(d)(3). The BLM will
continue to consult with Indian tribes
on a government-to-government basis,
in accordance with Executive Order
13175 and other policies. Tribal
concerns, including impacts on Indian
trust assets and potential impacts to
cultural resources, will continue to be
given due consideration.
BLM review were considered and
incorporated, as appropriate, into the
Final Supplemental EIS. Public
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[(LLCAD06000.51010000.ER0000.LVRWB19B5120.19X5017AP) CACA51967 (MO#
4500135522)]
Notice of Availability of the Crimson Solar Project Draft
Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Impact Report and
Draft Land Use Plan Amendment to the California Desert Conservation
Area Plan
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) 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 Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), Environmental
Impact Report (EIR), and draft Land Use Plan Amendment to the
California Desert Conservation Area Plan (CDCA) for the Crimson Solar
Project (Project), and by this notice is announcing the opening of the
90-day public comment period.
DATES: To ensure that all comments will be considered, the BLM must
receive written comments on the draft plan amendment and Draft EIS/EIR
within 90 days following the date the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) publishes its Notice of Availability in the Federal Register. The
BLM will announce future meetings and any other public involvement
activities at least 15 days in advance through public notices, news
releases, the project website, and/or mailings.
ADDRESSES: The public may submit comments related to the project during
the public comment period by using any of the following methods:
Website: https://bit.ly/2xntD5u
Email: [email protected]
Mail: Crimson Solar Project, Bureau of Land Management Palm
Springs-South Coast Field Office, 1201 Bird Center Drive, Palm Springs,
CA 92262
Copies of the Draft EIS/EIR and draft plan amendment are available
at the BLM-Palm Springs-South Coast Field Office at the above address
and at the BLM California Desert District Office, 22835 Calle San Juan
De Los Lagos, Moreno Valley, CA 92553, and electronically on the
project website referenced earlier.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Miriam Liberatore, BLM project
manager, telephone: (541) 618-2412; email: [email protected]; address
Bureau of Land Management, 3040 Biddle Road, Medford, OR 97504.
Persons who use a telecommunication device for the deaf may call
the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to contact Ms.
Liberatore during normal business hours. The FRS is available 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or questions. You will receive
a reply during normal business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Sonoran West Solar Holdings LLC (the
Applicant), a wholly owned subsidiary of Recurrent Energy LLC, applied
for a right-of-way (ROW) grant for a photovoltaic solar project with
the BLM. The applicant proposes to construct, operate, maintain, and
decommission a maximum 350-megawatt solar photovoltaic facility with
integrated battery storage and necessary ancillary facilities,
including project substations, access roads, operations and maintenance
buildings, and lay down areas. The proposed project includes 2,500
acres of BLM-administered land in the Riverside East Solar Energy Zone.
The BLM is the lead NEPA agency and will make Federal decisions
regarding the proposed plan amendment and the ROW for the Project. The
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a Cooperating Agency and will issue a
Biological Opinion for the project. The EPA (Region 9) is a Cooperating
Agency, but does not have a direct permitting role in the project. The
California Department of Fish and Wildlife is the lead agency under the
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and will make State
decisions on applications filed by the Applicant for an Incidental Take
Permit and a Lake and Streambed Alteration Agreement. This Draft EIS/
EIR was prepared as a joint Federal/State environmental document that
analyzes the impacts of the project under both NEPA and CEQA.
In addition to the proposed action (Alternative A), the Draft EIS/
EIR considers a no action alternative and two action alternatives.
Alternative B, Alternative Design, would include one or more of three
design elements to reduce grading, trenching, and vegetation removal
during construction. Alternative C, Reduced Acreage Alternative, would
be the same as described under Alternative A in the number and size of
project-related facilities, but the project area would be reduced by
about 300 acres. All alternatives would amend the CDCA plan to allow
the project. Alternative C is the BLM preferred alternative.
Public input on these alternatives or other issues is important and
will be considered in the Final EIR/EIS.
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Please note that public comments and information submitted,
including names, street addresses, and email addresses of persons who
submit comments, will be available for public review and disclosure at
the address listed in the ADDRESSES section during regular business
hours (8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.), Monday through Friday, except holidays.
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.
Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2.
Danielle Chi,
Deputy State Director, Resources.
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