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quarter of the Northeast quarter of said 

Section 8; thence South 191.0 feet; 

thence East 228.0 feet; thence North 

191.0 feet; thence West 228.0 feet to the 

Point of Beginning. 

Except that portion of said premises, 

described as follows: 

Beginning at a point 390.0 feet East of 

the Northwest corner of said Northeast 

quarter of the Northeast quarter of said 

Section 8; thence East 206.00 feet; 

thence South 206.0 feet: thence West 

206.0 feet; thence North 206.0 feet to the 

Point of Beginning. 

Except that portion of said premises 

lying within Pekin Ferry County Road, 

and 

Except that portion of said premises 

lying within County Road No. 25; 

Except that portion conveyed to the 

State of Washington by deed recorded 

under Auditor’s File Nos. G 143551 and 

G 499101. 

Except that portion conveyed to the 

State of Washington for Interstate 5. 

Except that portion conveyed to James 

Fisher and wife, by instrument recorded 

under Auditor’s File No. G 699690, 

described as follows: 

Beginning at the Southeast corner of 

the Northeast quarter of the Northeast 

quarter of Section 8, Township 4 North, 

Range 1 East of the Willamette 

Meridian, Clark County, Washington; 

thence North 200 feet; thence West 435 

feet; thence South 200 feet to a point on 

the South line of the Northeast quarter 

of the Northeast quarter of said Section; 

thence East 435 feet to the Point of 

Beginning. 

Parcel IX 

That portion of the Northeast quarter 

of the Northeast quarter of Section 8, 

Township 4 North, Range 1 East of the 

Willamette Meridian, Clark County, 

Washington; described as follows: 

Beginning at a point 612 feet East of 

the Northwest corner of the Northeast 

quarter of the Northeast quarter of 

Section 8, Township 4 North, Range 1 

East of the Willamette Meridian, Clark 

County, Washington; thence South 191 

feet; thence East 228 feet; thence North 

191 feet; thence West 228 feet to the 

Point of Beginning. 

Except County Roads. 

Also except that portion thereof 

conveyed to the State of Washington by 

deed recorded under Auditor’s File Nos. 

G 500929 and G 143551. 

Dated: December 17, 2010. 

Larry Echo Hawk, 

Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

[LLWY920000.51010000.ER0000– 

LVRWK09K1160; WYW177893; COC72929; 

UTU87238; NVN86732] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the TransWest Express 600 kV Direct 

Current Transmission Project in 

Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada 

(DOE/EIS–0450), and Notice of 

Potential for Land Use Plan 

Amendments 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior; Western Area Power 

Administration, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) Wyoming State 

Office, Cheyenne, Wyoming, intends to 

prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) analyzing the impacts of 

a right-of-way (ROW) application for the 

TransWest Express 600-kilovolt (kV) 

Direct Current Transmission Project 

(Project) and potential land use plan 

amendments. The Western Area Power 

Administration (Western) is a joint lead 

agency with the BLM for the EIS 

preparation. Western is a powermarketing agency within the 

Department of Energy (DOE) and is 

proposing to jointly own the Project 

with TransWest Express, LLC. 

TransWest Express, LLC is a whollyowned subsidiary of the Anschutz 

Corporation. The EIS will be prepared 

in accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

amended (NEPA). 

DATES: This notice initiates a 90-day 

public scoping period that will assist in 

the preparation of a Draft EIS. The 

scoping period will end on April 4, 

2011, or 15 days after the date of the last 

public scoping meeting, whichever is 

later. 

To provide the public an opportunity 

to review the proposal and project 

information, the BLM and Western 

expect to hold 22 open-house meetings 

at various locations in Wyoming, 

Colorado, Utah, and Nevada during the 

public scoping period. The exact dates, 

times, and locations for these meetings 

will be announced at least 15 days prior 

to the event through local media, 

newspapers, newsletters, and posting on 

the BLM Web site at http:// 

www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/info/NEPA/ 

HighDesert/transwest.html. To be 

considered in the Draft EIS, comments 

must be received prior to the close of 

the scoping period. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

related to the Project by any of the 

following methods: 

Mail: Bureau of Land Management, 

Wyoming State Office, TransWest 

Express Transmission Project, P.O. Box 

20678, 5353 Yellowstone Road, 

Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003, Attention: 

Sharon Knowlton. 

E-mail: TransWest_WYMail@blm.gov. 

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

en/info/NEPA/HighDesert/ 

transwest.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sharon Knowlton, BLM Project 

Manager; telephone (307) 775–6124; email: TransWest_WYMail@blm.gov; 

mailing address: BLM, Wyoming State 

Office, P.O. Box 20678, Cheyenne, 

Wyoming 82003. 

For information about Western’s 

involvement, contact Liana Reilly, 

Western NEPA Document Manager; 

telephone (720) 962–7253; e-mail: 

reilly@wapa.gov; address: Western Area 

Power Administration, P.O. Box 281213, 

Lakewood, Colorado 80228–8213. 

For general information on the DOE’s 

NEPA review procedures or on the 

status of a NEPA review, contact Carol 

M. Borgstrom, Director of NEPA Policy 

and Compliance, GC–54, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, telephone (202) 

586–4600 or toll free at (800) 472–2756. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 

Federal law, the BLM, the U.S. Forest 

Service (USFS), and the Bureau of 

Reclamation (Reclamation) are each 

responsible for responding to right-ofway (ROW) applications for lands 

within their respective jurisdictions. 

Some of the land that may be 

considered for this right-of-way is 

within the jurisdictions of the USFS and 

Reclamation. The USFS and 

Reclamation are cooperating agencies in 

the preparation of this EIS. This notice 

announces the beginning of a 90-day 

public scoping process for the EIS. 

TransWest Express, LLC has filed a 

ROW application with the BLM, the 

USFS, and Reclamation proposing to 

construct, operate, maintain, and 

decommission the Project. The Project 

consists of an overhead transmission 

line extending approximately 725 miles 

from south-central Wyoming crossing 

Colorado and Utah, with a potential 

interconnection at the Intermountain 

Power Project near Delta, Utah, and 

terminating at the Marketplace Hub in 

southern Nevada. This Project would 

include two AC/DC converter stations, 


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about 200 acres in size at each 

terminating point, a fiber optic network 

communications system, and two 

ground electrode facilities, each about 

600 acres in size. When completed, this 

Project would transmit about 3,000 

megawatts of electricity per year 

generated primarily from renewable 

resources at planned facilities in 

Wyoming. 

The requested right-of-way width on 

Federal lands is 250 feet. The proposal 

would predominantly use steel lattice 

towers 100 to 180 feet in height with 

average spans between towers of 900 to 

1,500 feet. Temporary access roads up to 

24-feet wide would be required. 

Temporary workspace would be needed 

during construction for batch plant 

sites, structure work areas and materials 

storage, conductor tensioning sites, and 

vehicles and equipment. Proposed 

routes cross Federal, State and private 

lands and include portions of 

designated utility corridors on Federal 

land and parallel portions of existing 

overhead and underground utilities and 

roadways, as well as portions of 

undisturbed areas. 

Under Section 402 of the American 

Reinvestment and Recovery Act 

(Recovery Act), 42 U.S.C. 16421a, Public 

Law 111–5, 123 Stat. 141, Div A, Title 

IV, 402 (2009) (adding Section 301 to 

the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984, 

Pub. L. 98–381, Title III, 301), Western 

may borrow funds from the United 

States Treasury to construct, finance, 

facilitate, plan, operate, maintain, and/ 

or study construction of new or 

upgraded electric power transmission 

lines and related facilities with at least 

one terminus in Western’s marketing 

area, that deliver or facilitate the 

delivery of power from renewable 

resources constructed or reasonably 

expected to be constructed after the date 

of enactment of the Recovery Act. 

Western is proposing to participate as a 

joint owner in the Project and as part of 

that proposal, Western is evaluating 

obtaining the ROWs necessary for those 

portions of the Project on private and 

State lands. Western may also apply for 

ROW grants over part of the Federal 

land and if this occurs, TransWest 

Express would concurrently modify its 

application to describe the remaining 

portions of the Federal land. 

Actions that result in a change in the 

scope of resource uses, terms and 

conditions, and decisions of Federal 

agency land use plans may require 

amendment of those plans. Approval of 

this proposal may result in the 

amendment(s) of USFS Land 

Management Plans (LMPs) and BLM 

Resource Management Plans (RMPs). 

Because of the congestion in the Las 

Vegas, Nevada area an alternative may 

be considered that would require a 

National Park Service (NPS) 

Management Plan amendment to 

implement. As required by 43 CFR 

1610.2(c), the BLM notifies the public of 

potential amendments to RMPs and, 

pursuant to 36 CFR 219.9, the USFS 

notifies the public of potential 

amendments to LMPs. Any 

authorizations and actions proposed for 

approval in the EIS will be evaluated to 

determine if they conform to the 

decisions in the referenced land use 

plans. If amendments are needed, the 

BLM and the USFS would integrate the 

land-use planning process as described 

in 43 CFR part 1610 and 36 CFR 219.8, 

respectively, with this EIS process as 

they proceed with NEPA compliance for 

the proposed Project. If the BLM or the 

USFS determine that plan amendments 

are necessary, compliance with NEPA 

for any land use plan amendments 

would occur simultaneously with the 

consideration of the Project. 

The BLM plans that may be amended 

include the Colorado Canyons National 

Conservation Area RMP, the Rawlins 

RMP, the Rock Springs RMP, the 

Kemmerer RMP, the Grand Junction 

RMP, the Glenwood Springs RMP, the 

Little Snake RMP, the White River RMP, 

the Cedar-Beaver-Garfield-Antimony 

RMP, the House Range RMP, the Warm 

Springs RMP, the Kanab RMP, the Moab 

RMP, the Price RMP, the Richfield RMP, 

the St. George RMP, the Vernal RMP, 

Beaver Dam Wash Area of Critical 

Environmental Concern RMP, the Ely 

RMP, the Caliente RMP, and the Las 

Vegas RMP. The USFS Plans that may 

be amended include the Ashley 

National Forest Plan, the White River 

National Forest Revised Plan, the Dixie 

National Forest Plan, the Fishlake 

National Forest Plan, the Manti-La Sal 

National Forest Plan, the Uinta National 

Forest Plan, the Humboldt National 

Forest Plan, and the Toiyabe National 

Forest Plan. The NPS Plan that may be 

considered for amendment is the Lake 

Mead National Recreation Area Lake 

Management Plan. Only the BLM may 

amend a BLM RMP; only the USFS may 

amend a Forest Plan; and only the NPS 

may amend a National Park Service 

Plan. The NPS is not a formal 

cooperator in this EIS so any plan 

amendment process it may undertake 

would be considered separately. 

A Programmatic EIS was prepared by 

the Department of the Interior and the 

Department of Energy for energy 

corridors in 11 western States and 

completed in January 2009. The Records 

of Decision for this EIS designated 

energy transmission corridors and 

provided guidance, best management 

practices, and mitigation measures to be 

used for any power lines proposed to be 

constructed within the corridors. The 

Project proposes to use the corridors 

identified in the ROD to the maximum 

extent possible. No BLM plan 

amendments will be needed if the rightof-way remains within designated 

corridors. 

The BLM and Western are joint lead 

agencies for this EIS as defined at 40 

CFR 1501.5. Agencies with jurisdiction 

by law or special expertise have been 

invited to participate as cooperating 

agencies in preparation of the EIS. The 

following agencies have agreed to 

participate as cooperating agencies: The 

USFS, Intermountain Region; the U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers South Pacific 

Division; Reclamation, Lower Colorado 

Region; the U.S. Navy Region 

Southwest; the States of Wyoming, 

Colorado, Utah, and Nevada; Garfield, 

Mesa, Moffat, and Rio-Blanco counties 

in Colorado; Beaver, Duchesne, Emery, 

Juab, Millard, Piute, Sanpete, Uintah, 

Wasatch, and Washington counties in 

Utah; Lincoln and Clark counties in 

Nevada and the Little Snake River 

Conservation District, Medicine Bow 

Conservation District, SaratogaEncampment-Rawlins Conservation 

District, and Sweetwater County 

Conservation District, Wyoming. The 

Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, the Moapa 

Band of Paiute, and the Las Vegas Paiute 

Tribe are also cooperating agencies. 

During the public scoping period, the 

BLM and Western will solicit public 

comments on behalf of all cooperating 

agencies regarding issues, concerns, and 

opportunities that should be considered 

in the analysis of the proposed action. 

Comments on issues and potential 

impacts, or suggestions for additional or 

different alternatives may be submitted 

to the addresses listed in the ADDRESSES

section. Documents pertinent to the 

ROW application for the project may be 

examined at: 

• BLM, Wyoming State Office, 5353 

Yellowstone Road, Cheyenne, Wyoming 

82009. 

• BLM, Rawlins Field Office, 1300 N. 

Third Street, Rawlins, Wyoming 82301. 

• BLM, Rock Springs Field Office, 

280 Highway. 191 N., Rock Springs, 

Wyoming 82901. 

• BLM, Little Snake Field Office, 455 

Emerson Street, Craig, Colorado 81625. 

• BLM, White River Field Office, 220 

East Market Street, Meeker, Colorado 

81641. 

• BLM, Grand Junction Field Office, 

2815 H Road, Grand Junction, Colorado 

81506. 

• BLM, Cedar City Field Office, 176 

D.L. Sargent Drive, Cedar City, Utah 

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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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BILLING CODE 4310–22–P 

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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