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• BLM, Fillmore Field Office, 35 East, 

500 North, Fillmore, Utah 84631. 

• BLM, Kanab Field Office, 318 

North, 100 East, Kanab, Utah 84741. 

• BLM, Moab Field Office, 82 E. 

Dogwood, Moab, Utah 84532. 

• BLM, Price Field Office, 125 South, 

600 West, Price, Utah 84501. 

• BLM, Richfield Field Office, 150 

East, 900 North, Richfield, Utah 84701. 

• BLM, St. George Field Office, 345 

East Riverside Drive, Saint. George, 

Utah 84790. 

• BLM, Salt Lake Field Office, 2370 

South, 2300 West, Salt Lake City, Utah 

84119. 

• BLM, Vernal Field Office, 170 

South, 500 East, Vernal, Utah 84078. 

• BLM, Egan Field Office, 702 North 

Industrial Way, HC33, Ely, Nevada 

89301. 

• BLM, Caliente Field Office, U.S. 

Highway. 93, Building. #1, Caliente, 

Nevada 89008. 

• BLM, Las Vegas Field Office, 4701 

N. Torrey Pines Drive, Las Vegas, 

Nevada 89130. 

• USFS (Lead Forest Office), Dixie 

National Forest Office, 1789 North 

Wedgewood Lane, Cedar City, Utah 

84721. 

Your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you may 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. 

The public scoping will help 

determine relevant issues that can 

influence the scope of the 

environmental analysis, alternatives, 

and the process for developing the EIS. 

The BLM and the USFS, other agencies, 

cooperators, and individuals have 

preliminarily identified the following 

issues that will be addressed in the EIS: 

Socioeconomic impacts; public health 

and safety; plant and animal species 

(including special and sensitive status 

species, desert tortoise and sage-grouse); 

cultural resources and historic sites; 

visual intrusions; lands with wilderness 

characteristics; national scenic and 

historic trails; wild and scenic rivers; 

and inventoried roadless areas on 

National Forests. 

Public meetings will also be held 

during the scoping period. The BLM 

staff, Western staff, and Project 

proponents will be available at the 

public meetings to explain Project 

details and gather information from 

interested individuals or groups. The 

USFS and other cooperating agencies 

are expected to participate in the public 

meetings. The BLM, Western, and 

cooperating agencies will also provide 

additional opportunities for public 

participation upon publication of the 

Draft EIS. 

Because the proposed Project may 

involve activities and construction in 

floodplains or wetlands, this NOI also 

serves as a notice of proposed 

floodplain or wetland action, in 

accordance with DOE regulations for 

Compliance with Floodplain and 

Wetlands Environmental Review 

Requirements, 10 CFR 1022.12(a). The 

EIS will include a floodplain/wetland 

assessment and, if required, a floodplain 

statement of findings will be issued 

with the Final EIS or in the RODs issued 

by Western, the BLM, and the USFS, if 

any. 

The BLM and Western will use and 

coordinate the NEPA commenting 

process to satisfy the public 

involvement process for Section 106 of 

the National Historic Preservation Act, 

16 U.S.C. 470f, as provided for in 36 

CFR 800.2(d)(3). Consultation with 

Native American Tribes will be 

conducted in accordance with 

applicable policies, and Tribal concerns, 

including impacts on Indian trust assets, 

will be given due consideration. 

Federal, State, and local agencies, along 

with other stakeholders that may be 

interested or affected by the BLM, 

USFS, or Western’s decisions on the 

project are invited to participate in the 

scoping process and, if eligible, may 

request or be requested by the BLM and 

Western to participate as a cooperating 

agency. 

Timothy J. Meeks, 

Administrator, Western Area Power 

Administration. 

Donald A. Simpson, 

Wyoming State Director, Bureau of Land 

Management. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[CACA 49698, CACA 51204, LLCAD07000, 

L51010000.FX0000, LVRWB10B3810, 

LVRWB10B3800] 

Notice of Availability of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement/Draft 

Environmental Impact Report for the 

Iberdrola Renewable/Pacific Wind 

Development Tule Wind Project and 

San Diego Gas and Electric’s East 

County Substation Project, San Diego 

County, CA 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended (NEPA), and the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and 

the California Public Utilities 

Commission (CPUC) have prepared a 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS), and Draft Environmental Impact 

Report (EIR) as a joint environmental 

analysis document for the Iberdrola 

Renewable/Pacific Wind Development 

Tule Wind Project (Tule Project) and the 

San Diego Gas and Electric’s (SDG&E) 

East County Substation Project (ECO 

Project) and by this notice are 

announcing the opening of the comment 

period on the Draft EIS/EIR. 

DATES: To ensure that your comments 

will be considered, the BLM must 

receive written comments on the Draft 

EIS/EIR by close of business on 

February 16, 2011. The comment period 

began on December 23, 2010, with 

publication of the Notice of Availability 

in the Federal Register by the 

Environmental Protection Agency. 

Recognizing that the public review 

period began during the holidays, the 

BLM has decided to extend the 45-day 

comment period cited in the EPA notice 

until close of business on February 16, 

2011 (55 days total). The BLM and 

CPUC will hold two joint public 

informational workshop meetings on the 

projects; the first in Jacumba, at 7 p.m., 

on January 26, 2011, at the Jacumba 

Highland Center on 44681 Old Highway 

80, Jacumba, California 91934, and the 

second in Boulevard, at 7 p.m., on 

February 2, 2011, at the Boulevard 

Volunteer Fire Department at 39223 

Highway 94, Boulevard, California 

91905. The public will be notified in 

advance of any updates or changes to 

these public meetings through local 

media, newspapers and the BLM Web 

site at: http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/ 

elcentro.html. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

related to the Tule Wind Project and 

East County Substation Project by any of 

the following methods: 

• Web site: http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/ 

en/fo/cdd.html. 

• E-mail: catulewind@blm.gov. 

• Fax: (951) 697–5299. 

• Mail: ATTN: Greg Thomsen, BLM 

California Desert District Office (CDDO), 

22835 Calle San Juan de Los Lagos, 

Moreno Valley, California 92553–9046. 

Copies of the EIS/EIR are available on 

the BLM Web site at: http:// 

www.ca.blm.gov/elcentro and also from 

the CPUC and the CDDO at the above 

addresses and in the BLM El Centro 


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Field Office, 1661 S. 4th Street, El 

Centro, California 92243. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information and/or to have your 

name added to our mailing list, contact 

Greg Thomsen, telephone: (951) 697– 

5237; address: BLM California Desert 

District Office, 22835 Calle San Juan de 

Los Lagos, Moreno Valley, California 

92553–9046; or via e-mail to 

catulewind@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM 

has received applications for rights-ofway (ROW) for two separate, but related, 

proposed projects in eastern San Diego 

County. Pacific Wind Development 

(Iberdrola) has submitted an application 

to construct, operate, maintain and 

decommission a 200 megawatt (MW) 

wind energy generation facility known 

as the Tule Wind Project. The proposed 

project site is located on approximately 

15,390 acres of land under multiple 

jurisdictions summarized as follows: 

Private land—1,040 acres, California 

State Lands Commission land—619 

acres, BLM land—12,133 acres and 

Tribal land belonging to the Campo/ 

Cuyapaipe/Manzanita Tribes—1,598 

acres. The project site is located in the 

In-Ko-Pah Mountains near the McCain 

Valley in San Diego County, north of the 

unincorporated community of 

Boulevard. The project will consist of 

approximately 134 wind turbines (1.5 to 

3.0 MW each), an overhead and 

underground 34.5 kilovolt (kV) collector 

system leading to a collector substation, 

an operations and maintenance facility, 

and a 138 kV transmission line as the 

generation tie-in to the existing 

Boulevard Substation. 

The SDG&E has submitted an 

application to construct the ECO 

Project, including a 138 kV transmission 

line that would traverse approximately 

1.5 miles of public land managed by the 

BLM. The ECO Project includes the 

construction of a 500/230/138 kV 

substation on private land near the 

community of Jacumba, a short loop-in 

to the Southwest Power Link, the 138 

kV transmission line mentioned above, 

a rebuild of the existing Boulevard 

Substation, and a rebuild of the existing 

White Star Communication Facility. 

The BLM’s purpose and need for the 

Tule and ECO Projects is to respond to 

Iberdrola Renewable/Pacific Wind 

Development and SDG&E applications 

for a ROW grant to construct, operate, 

and decommission an energy generation 

project and a 138 kV transmission line 

on public lands in compliance with 

Title V of FLPMA (43 U.S.C. 1761), BLM 

ROW regulations, and other applicable 

Federal laws and regulations. The BLM 

will decide whether to approve, approve 

with modification, or deny issuance of 

a ROW grant to Iberdrola Renewable/ 

Pacific Wind Development and SDG&E 

for the proposed Tule and ECO Projects, 

respectively. The BLM will take into 

consideration the provisions of the 

Energy Policy Act of 2005 and 

Secretarial Orders 3283 Enhancing 

Renewable Energy Development on the 

Public Lands and 3285 Renewable 

Energy Development by the Department 

of the Interior in responding to the 

Iberdrola and SDG&E applications. 

The BLM’s proposed action in the 

EIS/EIR is to authorize the Tule Project 

and the ECO Project in response to the 

applications received from Iberdrola 

Renewable/Pacific Wind Development 

and SDG&E, respectively. The BLM will 

analyze the following alternatives: for 

the ECO project; the Proposed Action 

and No Action alternatives; for the Tule 

Wind Project; the Proposed Action, 

authorization of the proposed project 

with a relocation of the 138 kV 

generation tie-in line, authorization of 

the proposed project with a reduction in 

the number of wind turbines, 

authorization of the 113 wind turbines, 

but moving them away from critical 

habitat and areas having wilderness 

characteristics, and a No Action 

alternative. 

The BLM will use the NEPA process 

to satisfy the public involvement 

requirement for Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act (16 

U.S.C. 470f) as provided in 36 CFR 

800.2(d)(3). Native American Tribal 

consultations are being conducted in 

accordance with BLM and Department 

of the Interior policy, and Tribal 

concerns will be given due 

consideration, including impacts on 

Indian trust assets. 

The BLM has entered into a 

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) 

with the CPUC to conduct a joint 

environmental review of the Tule/ECO 

Projects on Federal land managed by the 

BLM. The CPUC is the CEQA lead 

agency preparing the EIR and the BLM 

is the lead agency preparing the EIS. 

The BLM and CPUC have agreed 

through the MOU to conduct joint 

environmental review of the project in 

a single combined NEPA/CEQA process 

and document. The Draft EIS/EIR 

evaluates the potential impacts of the 

proposed Tule and ECO Projects’ 

impacts on air quality, biological 

resources, cultural resources, water 

resources, geological resources and 

hazards, land use, noise, paleontological 

resources, public health, 

socioeconomics, soils, traffic and 

transportation, visual resources, 

wilderness characteristics, and other 

resources. A Notice of Intent to Prepare 

an EIS/EIR for the Tule and ECO 

Projects in San Diego County, California 

was published in the Federal Register 

on December 29, 2009 (74 FR 68860). 

The BLM held two public scoping 

meetings in Jacumba and Boulevard, 

California, on January 27 and 28, 2010, 

respectively. The formal scoping period 

ended on February 15, 2010. Please note 

that public comments will be available 

for public review and disclosure at the 

above address during regular business 

hours (8 a.m. to 4 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 and 1506.10 and 

43 CFR 1610.2. 

Thomas Pogacnik, 

Deputy State Director, Natural Resources. 

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National Park Service 

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National Register of Historic Places; 

Notification of Pending Nominations 

and Related Actions 

Nominations for the following 

properties being considered for listing 

or related actions in the National 

Register were received by the National 

Park Service before December 4, 2010. 

Pursuant to sections 60.13 or 60.15 of 36 

CFR part 60, written comments are 

being accepted concerning the 

significance of the nominated properties 

under the National Register criteria for 

evaluation. Comments may be 

forwarded by United States Postal 

Service, to the National Register of 

Historic Places, National Park Service, 

1849 C St., NW., MS 2280, Washington, 

DC 20240; by all other carriers, National 

Register of Historic Places, National 

Park Service, 1201 Eye St., NW., 8th 

floor, Washington DC 20005; or by fax, 

202–371–6447. Written or faxed 

comments should be submitted by 

January 19, 2011. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail address, or other 

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