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molten salt, the heat could later be 

extracted to provide generation when 

the demand for power exceeds the 

available generation from solar energy, 

essentially time shifting the solar power 

to respond to electric demands. 

Wet cooling technology would be 

used for cooling the power generating 

equipment. Recirculating wet cooling 

systems use about 6 to 13 acre-feet per 

year per MW for a system with 3 hours 

of thermal storage. A mechanical draft 

cooling tower, cooling water circulating 

pumps, circulating water piping, valves, 

and instrumentation would also be 

located within the facility. Multiple 

evaporation ponds would be 

constructed to hold discharge from the 

cooling towers and steam cycle that can 

no longer be recycled back into the 

plant. 

The Project would be connected to the 

electrical grid using a newly 

constructed, 3 to 4 mile, 500 kV 

generation tie-line with a point of 

interconnection at the existing Jojoba 

Substation, west of the proposed Project 

site and operated by the Salt River 

Project. If any upgrades would be 

required to the Jojoba Substation as a 

result of this Project, those upgrades 

would be included in the EIS analysis 

and ROW grant. The new transmission 

line and other related facilities that 

would be developed specifically for this 

Project would be included in the EIS 

analysis and included in the ROW grant 

as appropriate. 

The EIS for the Project will analyze 

the site-specific impacts related to air 

quality, biological resources, cultural 

resources, water resources, geological 

resources and hazards, and hazardous 

materials handling. The EIS will also 

analyze land use, noise, paleontological 

resources, socioeconomics, soils, traffic 

and transportation, visual resources, 

waste management, wildlife corridors, 

health and human safety, and fire 

protection. Additionally, information on 

facility design engineering, efficiency, 

reliability, transmission system 

engineering and transmission line safety 

and nuisance will be included in the 

EIS. Native American Tribal 

consultations will be conducted in 

accordance with policy, and Tribal 

concerns will be given due 

consideration, including impacts on 

Indian trust assets. It is anticipated that 

the EIS process will be completed by 

December 2010. 

To be most helpful, you should 

submit comments within 30 days after 

the last public meeting. 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 the public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

If the ROW were to be approved by 

BLM, the concentrated solar thermal 

power plant facility on public lands 

would be authorized in accordance with 

Title V of the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976 and the 

Federal Regulations at 43 CFR part 

2800. 

(Authority: 43 CFR part 2800) 

Helen M. Hankins, 

Acting State Director. 

[FR Doc. E9–15974 Filed 7–7–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–32–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLWYP00000–L13200000–EL0000, 

LLWYP00000–L51100000–GA0000– 

LVEMK09CK320, LLWYP00000–L51100000– 

GA0000–LVEMK09CK340, LLWYP00000– 

L51100000–GA0000–LVEMK09CK370; 

WYW164812, WYW174596, WYW172388, 

WYW172685, WYW173408, WYW176095] 

Notice of Availability and Notice of 

Hearing for the Wright Area Coal Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement That 

Includes Four Federal Coal Lease-byApplications, WY 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA) and the Federal Land 

Policy and Management Act of 1976 

(FLPMA), the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) has prepared a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

for the Wright Area Coal project that 

contains four Federal coal Lease-byApplications (LBAs), and by this Notice 

is announcing a public hearing 

requesting comments on the DEIS, on 

the Maximum Economic Recovery 

(MER), and on the Fair Market Value 

(FMV) of the Federal coal resources. 

DATES: To ensure comments will be 

considered, the BLM must receive 

written comments on the Wright Area 

Coal DEIS, MER, and FMV within 60 

days following June 26, 2009, the date 

the Environmental Protection Agency 

published the Notice of Availability in 

the Federal Register [74 FR 30570]. The 

public hearing will be held at 7 p.m. 

MST, on July 29, 2009, at the Clarion 

Inn, 2009 S. Douglas Hwy., Gillette, 

Wyoming. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• E-mail: casper_wymail@blm.gov. 

Please include ‘‘Wright Area Coal 

DEIS—Sarah Bucklin’’ in the subject 

line. 

• Fax: 307–261–7587, Attn: Sarah 

Bucklin. 

• Mail: Wyoming High Plains District 

Office, Bureau of Land Management, 

Attn: Sarah Bucklin, 2987 Prospector 

Drive, Casper, Wyoming 82604. 

• Written comments may also be 

hand-delivered to the BLM Wyoming 

High Plains District Office in Casper. 

Copies of the DEIS are available at the 

following BLM office locations: BLM 

Wyoming State Office, 5353 

Yellowstone Road, Cheyenne, Wyoming 

82009; and BLM Wyoming High Plains 

District Office, 2987 Prospector Drive, 

Casper, Wyoming 82604. The DEIS is 

available electronically at the following 

Web site: http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/ 

info/NEPA/cfodocs/WrightCoal.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sarah Bucklin or Mike Karbs, BLM 

Wyoming High Plains District Office, 

2987 Prospector Drive, Casper, 

Wyoming 82604. Ms. Bucklin or Mr. 

Karbs may also be reached at (307) 261– 

7600 or by e-mail at 

casper_wymail@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DEIS 

analyzes the potential impacts of issuing 

leases for six Federal coal maintenance 

tracts serialized as WYW164812 (North 

Hilight Field Tract), WYW174596 

(South Hilight Field Tract), 

WYW172388 (West Hilight Field Tract), 

WYW172685 (West Jacobs Ranch Tract), 

WYW173408 (North Porcupine Tract), 

and WYW176095 (South Porcupine 

Tract) in the decertified Powder River 

Federal Coal Production Region, 

Wyoming. The BLM is considering 

issuing these six coal leases as a result 

of four applications filed in accordance 

with 43 CFR part 3425 between October 

2005 and September 2006. 

Supplementary information by tract is 

as follows: 

North and South Hilight Field Tracts 

On October 7, 2005, Ark Land 

Company applied for Federal coal 

reserves in two maintenance tracts 

encompassing approximately 4,590.19 

acres and 588.2 million tons of coal as 

estimated by the applicant. The tracts 

are adjacent to the Black Thunder Mine 

operated by Thunder Basin Coal 

Company. BLM determined that the 

application would be processed as two 

separate tracts. The tracts are referred to 

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as the North Hilight Field Tract, case 

file number WYW164812, and the South 

Hilight Field Tract, case file number 

WYW174596. As applied for, the coal in 

the tracts would potentially extend the 

life of the mine by as many as four 

years. 

As applied for, the North Hilight Field 

Tract includes approximately 263.4 

million tons of recoverable coal 

underlying the following lands in 

Campbell County, Wyoming: 

T. 44 N., R. 70 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 19: Lots 5 through 20; 

T. 44 N., R. 71 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 23: Lots 1 through 16; 

Section 24: Lots 1 through 16; 

Section 26: Lots 1 through 16. 

Containing 2,613.50 acres, more or less. 

As applied for, the South Hilight 

Field Tract includes approximately 

213.6 million tons of recoverable coal 

underlying the following lands in 

Campbell County, Wyoming: 

T. 43 N., R.71 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 23: Lots 1 through 16; 

Section 26: Lots 1 through 16; 

Section 35: Lots 1 through 16. 

Containing 1,976.69 acres, more or less. 

West Hilight Field Tract 

On January 17, 2006, Ark Land 

Company applied for Federal coal 

reserves in a maintenance tract 

containing approximately 2,370.52 acres 

and approximately 428 million tons of 

coal as estimated by the applicant. The 

tract is adjacent to the Black Thunder 

Mine operated by Thunder Basin Coal 

Company. The tract, which is referred to 

as the West Hilight Field Tract, has been 

assigned case file number WYW172388. 

As applied for, the coal in the tract 

would potentially extend the life of the 

mine by as many as three years. 

As applied for, the West Hilight Field 

Tract includes approximately 377.9 

million tons of recoverable coal 

underlying the following lands in 

Campbell County, Wyoming: 

T. 43 N., R. 71 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 8: Lots 1, 2, and 7 through 16; 

Section 9: Lots 1 through 16; 

Section 10: Lots 3 through 6, 11 through 14; 

Section 17: Lots 1 through 16; 

Section 20: Lots 1 through 4; 

Section 21: Lots 3, 4. 

Containing 2,370.52 acres, more or less. 

West Jacobs Ranch Tract 

On March 24, 2006, Jacobs Ranch 

Coal Company applied for Federal coal 

reserves in a maintenance tract 

containing approximately 5,944.37 acres 

and approximately 956 million tons of 

coal as estimated by the applicant. The 

tract is adjacent to the Jacobs Ranch 

Mine. The tract, which is referred to as 

the West Jacobs Ranch Tract, has been 

assigned case file number WYW172685. 

As applied for, the coal in the tract 

would potentially extend the life of the 

mine by as many as 17 years. 

As applied for, the West Jacobs Ranch 

Tract includes approximately 669.6 

million tons of recoverable coal 

underlying the following lands in 

Campbell County, Wyoming: 

T. 43 N., R. 71 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 3: Lots 2, 5 through 19; 

Section 4: Lots 5 through 20; 

Section 5: Lots 5 through 20; 

T. 44 N., R. 71 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 22: Lots 9 through 16; 

Section 27: Lots 1 through 16; 

Section 28: Lots 1 through 3, 5 through 16; 

Section 29: Lots 5 through 15 and SE1⁄4SE1⁄4; 

Section 32: Lots 1 through 15 and SW1⁄4SE1⁄4; 

Section 33: Lots 1 through 15 and NE1⁄4SE1⁄4; 

Section 34: Lots 1 through 16. 

Containing 5,944.37 acres, more or less. 

North and South Porcupine Tracts 

On September 29, 2006, BTU Western 

Resources, Inc. applied for Federal coal 

reserves in three maintenance tracts 

encompassing approximately 5,116.65 

acres and approximately 598 million 

tons of coal as estimated by the 

applicant. The tracts are adjacent to the 

North Antelope Rochelle Mine. On 

October 12, 2007, BTU Western 

Resources, Inc. filed a request with BLM 

to modify its application and increase 

the lease area and coal volume to 

approximately 8,981.74 acres and 

approximately 1,179.1 million tons of 

coal as estimated by the applicant. BLM 

determined that the modified 

application would be processed as two 

separate maintenance tracts. The tracts 

are referred to as the North Porcupine 

Tract, case file number WYW173408, 

and the South Porcupine Tract, case file 

number WYW176095. As applied for, 

the coal in the tracts would potentially 

extend the life of the mine by as many 

as ten years. 

As applied for, the North Porcupine 

Tract includes approximately 601.2 

million tons of recoverable coal 

underlying the following lands in 

Campbell County, Wyoming: 

T. 42 N., R. 70 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 19: Lots 13 through 20; 

Section 20: Lots 9 through 16; 

Section 21: Lots 9 through 16; 

Section 22: Lots 9 through 16; 

Section 26: Lots 3 through 6, 9 through 16; 

Section 27: Lots 1 through 16; 

Section 28: Lots 1 through 4; 

Section 29: Lots 1 through 4; 

Section 30: Lots 5 through 8; 

T. 42 N., R. 71 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 22: Lots 10 through 15, 21 through 

24; 

Section 23: Lots 9 through 16; 

Section 24: Lots 9 through 16; 

Section 25: Lots 1 through 4; 

Section 26: Lots 1 through 6, 11 through 14; 

Section 27: Lots 2 through 6, 9, 12, 15 

through 30; 

Section 34: Lots 1 through 3, 6 through 11; 

Section 35: Lots 3 through 6, 11 through 14. 

Containing 5,795.78 acres, more or less. 

As applied for, the South Porcupine 

Tract includes approximately 309.7 

million tons of recoverable coal 

underlying the following lands in 

Campbell County, Wyoming: 

T. 41 N., R. 70 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 7: Lots 7 through 10, 15 through 18; 

Section 18: Lots 6 through 11, 14 through 19; 

T. 41 N., R. 71 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 1: Lots 5 through 20; 

Section 12: Lots 1 through 16; 

Section 13: Lots 1 through 16; 

Section 14: Lots 1, 8, 9, 16; 

Section 23: Lots 1, 8 (N1⁄2); 

Section 24: Lots 2 through 4, 5 (N1⁄2), 6 (N1⁄2), 

7 (N1⁄2). 

Containing 3,185.96 acres, more or less. 

Consistent with Federal regulations 

under NEPA and the Mineral Leasing 

Act of 1920, as amended, the BLM must 

prepare an environmental analysis prior 

to holding competitive Federal coal 

lease sales. The Powder River Regional 

Coal Team recommended that BLM 

process these four coal lease 

applications after they reviewed the 

tracts that were applied for by Ark Land 

Company and Jacobs Ranch Coal 

Company at a public meeting held on 

April 19, 2006, in Casper, Wyoming, 

and the tracts that were applied for by 

BTU Western Resources, Inc., at a 

public meeting held on January 18, 

2007, in Casper, Wyoming. 

Lands in the North Hilight Field, 

South Hilight Field, West Hilight Field, 

North Porcupine, and South Porcupine 

Tracts contain Federal surface 

administered by the Forest Service and 

private surface estate which overlies the 

Federal coal. Lands in the West Jacobs 

Ranch Tract contain all private surface 

estate which overlies the Federal coal. 

Cooperating agencies in the 

preparation of this EIS include: The 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement (OSM), U.S. 

Department of Agriculture Forest 

Service (USFS), Wyoming Department 

of Transportation, Wyoming Department 

of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) Land 

Quality and Air Quality Divisions, and 

the Converse County Board of 

Commissioners. Before the tracts can be 

leased, the Forest Service must consent 

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to leasing the federal coal that is located 

on USFS-administered lands. 

The Black Thunder Mine, Jacobs 

Ranch Mine, and North Antelope 

Rochelle Mine are operating under 

approved mining permits from the 

WDEQ Land Quality and Air Quality 

Divisions. 

If the tracts are leased to existing 

mines, the new leases must be 

incorporated into the existing mining 

and reclamation plans for the adjacent 

mines. Before the Federal coal in each 

tract can be mined, the Secretary of the 

Interior must approve the revised 

Mineral Leasing Act (MLA) mining plan 

for the mine in which each tract will be 

included. OSM is the Federal agency 

that is responsible for recommending 

approval, approval with conditions, or 

disapproval of the revised MLA mining 

plan to the Office of the Secretary of the 

Interior. 

The DEIS analyzes and discloses to 

the public the direct, indirect, and 

cumulative environmental impacts 

associated with leasing six Federal coal 

tracts in the Wyoming portion of the 

Powder River Basin. A copy of the DEIS 

has been sent to affected Federal, State, 

and local government agencies; persons 

and entities identified as potentially 

being affected by a decision to lease the 

Federal coal in each of the tracts; and 

persons who indicated to the BLM that 

they wished to receive a copy of the 

DEIS. The purpose of the public hearing 

is to solicit comments on the DEIS, on 

the proposed competitive sales of the 

six Federal coal lease maintenance 

tracts, and on the FMV and MER of the 

Federal coal. 

The DEIS analyzes leasing the six 

Wright Area coal tracts as the Proposed 

Action. Under the Proposed Action, a 

competitive sale would be held and a 

lease issued for Federal coal contained 

in the tracts as applied for by each of the 

applicants. As part of the coal leasing 

process, the BLM is evaluating adding 

additional Federal coal to the tracts to 

avoid bypassing coal or to prompt 

competitive interest in unleased Federal 

coal in the area. The alternate tract 

configurations for each of the LBAs that 

BLM is evaluating are described and 

analyzed as separate alternatives in the 

DEIS. Under these alternatives, 

competitive sales would be held and 

leases would be issued for Federal coal 

lands included in tracts modified by the 

BLM. The DEIS also analyzes the 

alternative of rejecting the application(s) 

to lease Federal coal as the No Action 

Alternative. The Proposed Actions and 

alternatives for each of the LBAs being 

considered in the DEIS are in 

conformance with the Approved 

Resource Management Plan for Public 

Lands Administered by the Bureau of 

Land Management Buffalo Field Office 

(2001) and the USDA-Forest Service 

Land and Resource Management Plan 

for the Thunder Basin National 

Grassland (2002). 

Requests to be included on the 

mailing list for this project and requests 

for copies of the DEIS may be sent in 

writing, by fax, or electronically to the 

addresses previously stated at the 

beginning of this notice. For those 

submitting comments on the DEIS, 

please make the comments as specific as 

possible with reference to page numbers 

and sections of the document. 

Comments that contain only opinions or 

preferences will not receive a formal 

response; however, they will be 

considered as part of the BLM decisionmaking process. 

Please note that public comments and 

information submitted to the BLM 

including the commenter’s name, street 

address, and e-mail address will be 

available for public review and 

disclosure at the above address during 

regular business hours (7:45 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m.), Monday through Friday, except 

holidays. 

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. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6. 

Mary E. Trautner, 

Acting Associate State Director. 

[FR Doc. E9–16048 Filed 7–7–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[ID–957–1420–BJ] 

Idaho: Filing of Plats of Survey 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of filing of plats of 

surveys. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) has officially filed 

the plats of survey of the lands 

described below in the BLM Idaho State 

Office, Boise, Idaho, effective 9 a.m., on 

the dates specified. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bureau of Land Management, 1387 

South Vinnell Way, Boise, Idaho 83709– 

1657. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: These 

surveys were executed at the request of 

the Bureau of Land Management to meet 

their administrative needs. The lands 

surveyed are: 

The plat representing the dependent 

resurvey of a portion of the 

subdivisional lines and the subdivision 

of sections 4, 9, 10, 11, and 12 in T. 11 

N., R. 16 E., Boise Meridian, Idaho, 

Group Number 1264, was accepted 

April 28, 2009. 

The field notes representing the 

perpetuation of Angle Point Number 1, 

in section 27 in T. 9 S., R. 20 E., Boise 

Meridian, Idaho, Group Number 1000, 

were accepted May 7, 2009. 

The plat representing the dependent 

resurvey of portions of the south 

boundary, subdivisional lines, and 

subdivision of section lines, and the 

subdivision of sections 26, 29, 32, 33, 

and 34, and the metes-and-bounds 

survey of lot 2 in section 20, T. 7 S., R. 

35 E., Boise Meridian, Idaho, Group 

Number 1148, was accepted May 7, 

2009. 

The supplemental plat of section 20, 

lots 1 and 2, T. 7 S., R. 35 E., Boise 

Meridian, Idaho, was prepared to amend 

certain erroneous acreages as depicted 

on the plat accepted May 7, 2009. 

The plat representing the dependent 

resurvey of a portion of the south 

boundary and a portion of the 

subdivisional lines, and subdivision of 

sections 27 and 34, T. 14 S., R. 22 E., 

Boise Meridian, Idaho, Group Number 

1276, was accepted June 25, 2009. 

Dated: July 2, 2009. 

Stanley G. French, 

Chief Cadastral Surveyor for Idaho. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLORB00000.L10600000.HG0000; HAG 09– 

0224] 

Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

DOI. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) Burns District has 

scheduled a public meeting to discuss 

agency procedures for gathering wild 

horses and how helicopters and other 

motorized equipment help the process. 

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