Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 244 / Tuesday, December 21, 2010 / Notices 80069 

California Public Utilities Commission 

(CPUC) have prepared a Final 

Environmental Impact Report (EIR)/ 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) for the proposed Eldorado-Ivanpah 

Transmission Project (EITP), Clark 

County, Nevada, and San Bernardino 

County, California, and by this notice 

are announcing its availability. 

DATES: The BLM will not issue a Record 

of Decision based on the EITP Final EIR/ 

EIS until 30 days after the date the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes its Notice of Availability in 

the Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the EITP Final 

EIR/EIS are available at the Needles 

Field Office, 1303 South U.S. Highway 

95, Needles, California 92363; on the 

Internet at: http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/ 

en/fo/needles.html; and at the BLM 

California State Office, 2800 Cottage 

Way, Sacramento, California 95825. 

Electronic (CD–ROM) or paper copies 

may also be obtained by contacting 

George Meckfessel at (760) 326–7000 or 

by e-mailing your request to 

caeitp@blm.gov. Please include your 

name and mailing address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information and/or to have your 

name added to our mailing list, contact 

Tom Hurshman, Project Manager, 

address: 2465 South Townsend Avenue, 

Montrose, Colorado 81401; phone: (970) 

240–5345; fax: (970) 240–5368, or email: Tom_Hurshman@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

BLM’s purpose and need for the EITP is 

to respond to Southern California 

Edison’s (SCE) application under Title V 

of the FLPMA (43 USC 1761) for 

authorization of a right-of-way (ROW) 

on BLM-managed lands to upgrade and 

replace an existing 115-kilovolt (kV) 

transmission line on public lands with 

a new double circuit 230-kV 

transmission line in compliance with 

FLPMA, BLM’s ROW regulations, and 

other applicable Federal laws. The 

upgraded transmission line would 

extend approximately 35 miles from 

southern Clark County, Nevada (28 

miles), into northeastern San 

Bernardino County, California (7 miles). 

The project would also include a new 

Ivanpah substation in California near 

Primm, Nevada, which would serve as 

a connector hub for solar energy 

generated in the Ivanpah Valley area. 

The existing Eldorado Substation would 

be modified to accommodate the new 

EITP. The segment of transmission line 

to be replaced is approximately 36 miles 

long and originates at the existing 

Eldorado Substation in T. 25 S., R. 62 

E., Sec. 1, Mount Diablo Meridian, and 

terminates at the proposed Ivanpah 

Substation in T. 16 N., R. 14 E., Sec. 4, 

San Bernardino Meridian. 

The BLM will decide whether to 

approve, approve with modification, or 

deny issuance of a ROW authorization 

to SCE for the proposed EITP. The EITP 

would carry electricity from several 

renewable energy projects proposed in 

and around the Ivanpah Valley, 

including the Ivanpah Solar Energy 

Generation System currently under 

construction by BrightSource Energy 

Partners. The proposed transmission 

line and new substation would be 

constructed within an existing 

designated utility corridor. 

Telecommunications lines are also 

proposed. The public lands in the 

project area are managed by the BLM in 

accordance with the California Desert 

Conservation Area Plan and the Las 

Vegas Field Office Resource 

Management Plan. 

The BLM will consider approval of 

the EITP in a manner that avoids or 

reduces impacts to public lands. This 

action is consistent with Federal law 

and the Department of the Interior’s 

policy to facilitate and encourage the 

development of renewable energy 

resources on the public lands pursuant 

to Title V of FLPMA and Section 211 of 

the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (119 Stat. 

594, 660). 

In addition to the proposed action and 

the no action alternatives, the Final EIR/ 

EIS analyzes six additional action 

alternatives that address alternative 

routes for the transmission and 

telecommunications lines. As proposed, 

the transmission line has been sited to 

take advantage of existing designated 

ROW corridors which are areas 

identified by BLM land use plans as 

suitable for ROW development. 

A Notice of Intent to prepare an EIR/ 

EIS for the EITP was published in the 

Federal Register on July 27, 2009 (74 FR 

37053) followed by a 30-day public 

scoping period. A Notice of Availability 

for the Draft EIR/EIS was published in 

the Federal Register on May 7, 2010 (75 

FR 25288) followed by a 45-day public 

comment period. The BLM and the 

CPUC conducted one public meeting 

during the comment period on the Draft 

EIR/EIS. Major comments addressed in 

this Final EIR/EIS concern project 

impacts on biological resources, 

compatibility with the proposed 

Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport, 

consistency with existing BLM land use 

plans, and cumulative impacts. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 1506.10, and 43 

CFR 1610.2. 

Thomas Pogacnik, 

Deputy State Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLES956000–L14200000–BJ0000– 

LXSITRST0000] 

Eastern States: Filing of Plat of Survey 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Filing of Plat of 

Survey; Alabama. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) will file the plat of 

survey of the lands described below in 

the BLM–Eastern States office in 

Springfield, Virginia, 30 calendar days 

from the date of publication in the 

Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bureau of Land Management-Eastern 

States, 7450 Boston Boulevard, 

Springfield, Virginia 22153. Attn: 

Cadastral Survey. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

survey was requested by the Bureau of 

Indian Affairs. 

The lands surveyed are: 

St. Stephens Meridian, Alabama 

T. 17 N., R. 19 E. 

The plat of survey represents the 

dependent resurvey of Parcel No. 17, land 

held in trust for the Poarch Band of the Creek 

Indians, in Township 17 North, Range 19 

East, of the St. Stephens Meridian, in the 

State of Alabama, and was accepted 

September 28, 2010. 

We will place a copy of the plat we 

described in the open files. It will be 

available to the public as a matter of 

information. 

If BLM receives a protest against the 

survey, as shown on the plat, prior to 

the date of the official filing, we will 

stay the filing pending our 

consideration of the protest. 

We will not officially file the plat 

until the day after we have accepted or 

dismissed all protests and they have 

become final, including decisions on 

appeals. 

Dated: December 14, 2010. 

Dominica Van Koten, 

Chief Cadastral Surveyor. 

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