Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 156 / Friday, August 14, 2009 / Notices 41157 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5280–N–31] 

Federal Property Suitable as Facilities 

to Assist the Homeless 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Community Planning and 

Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This Notice identifies 

unutilized, underutilized, excess, and 

surplus Federal property reviewed by 

HUD for suitability for possible use to 

assist the homeless. 

DATES: Effective Date: August 14, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathy Ezzell, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 Seventh 

Street, SW., Room 7262, Washington, 

DC 20410; telephone (202) 708–1234; 

TTY number for the hearing- and 

speech-impaired (202) 708–2565, (these 

telephone numbers are not toll-free), or 

call the toll-free Title V information line 

at 800–927–7588. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the December 12, 1988 

court order in National Coalition for the 

Homeless v. Veterans Administration, 

No. 88–2503–OG (D.D.C.), HUD 

publishes a Notice, on a weekly basis, 

identifying unutilized, underutilized, 

excess and surplus Federal buildings 

and real property that HUD has 

reviewed for suitability for use to assist 

the homeless. Today’s Notice is for the 

purpose of announcing that no 

additional properties have been 

determined suitable or unsuitable this 

week. 

Dated: August 6, 2009. 

Mark R. Johnston, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs. 

[FR Doc. E9–19244 Filed 8–13–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLIDI02000. 

L71220000.EO0000.LVTFD0980300] 

Notice of Availability of Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed Blackfoot Bridge Mine, 

Idaho 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has 

prepared a Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement (DEIS) for the proposed 

Blackfoot Bridge Mine and by this 

Notice is announcing the opening of the 

comment period. 

DATES: To ensure comments will be 

considered, the BLM must receive 

written comments on the Blackfoot 

Bridge Mine DEIS within 45 days 

following the date the Environmental 

Protection Agency publishes the Notice 

of Availability in the Federal Register. 

The BLM will announce future meetings 

or hearings and any other public 

involvement activities at least 15 days 

in advance through public notices, 

media news releases, and/or mailings. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• E-mail: Blackfoot.Bridge@arcadisus.com. 

• Fax: (720) 344–3535. 

• Mail: Blackfoot Bridge Project, 

ARCADIS, 630 Plaza Drive, Highlands 

Ranch, CO 80129. 

Copies of the Blackfoot Bridge Mine 

DEIS are available in the BLM Pocatello 

Field Office at the following address: 

4350 Cliffs Drive, Pocatello, ID 83204. In 

addition, an electronic copy of the DEIS 

is available at the following Web 

address: http://www.blm.gov/id/st/en/ 

prog/0.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kyle 

Free, Bureau of Land Management, 

Pocatello Field Office, 4350 Cliffs Drive, 

Pocatello, Idaho 83204, phone (208) 

478–6368, fax (208) 478–6376. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: P4 

Production, LLC (P4), a subsidiary of 

Monsanto Company, holds mineral 

leases issued by the United States 

granting them exclusive rights to 

develop phosphate minerals in the 

Blackfoot Bridge area. P4 has submitted 

a Mine and Reclamation Plan (MRP) for 

BLM to consider the environmental 

impacts that may occur from 

implementation of the MRP, including 

the possible modification of existing 

leases. P4 must receive approval of the 

MRP and obtain additional Federal and 

state permits prior to mining under the 

proposed mine plan. The BLM has 

prepared a DEIS to evaluate effects of 

the Blackfoot Bridge Mine upon the 

human environment, including the 

potential effects of selenium and other 

contaminants, and to consider 

appropriate mitigation measures. 

As required by the Mineral Leasing 

Act of 1920 and 43 CFR Part 3590, the 

BLM is to evaluate and respond to the 

MRP from P4 that proposes the recovery 

of phosphate ore reserves contained 

within Federal Phosphate Leases I– 

05613 and I–013709. The BLM is 

required to evaluate the MRP, 

considering the no action alternative 

and other reasonable alternatives, and 

issue decisions related to development 

of the phosphate leases and whether to 

modify the existing leases. The U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers is required to 

evaluate and respond to P4’s application 

for a permit under Section 404 of the 

Clean Water Act that is needed to 

implement the MRP. The DEIS provides 

the analysis upon which the BLM and 

other involved agencies can base such 

decisions. The Proposed Action is 

needed to ensure economically viable 

development of the phosphate 

resources, as required by Federal law 

and the Federal leases, and to allow the 

lessee to exercise its right to develop the 

leases mentioned above. 

The Proposed Action consists of P4’s 

MRP as revised in 2008. The Blackfoot 

Bridge Mine would be developed using 

open pit mining methods to extract 

phosphate ore that would be hauled 

about 8 miles to P4’s existing Soda 

Springs elemental phosphorus plant for 

processing. Ore would be recovered 

from three separate mine pits called the 

North, Mid and South Pits. Mining 

would begin in the Mid Pit, followed by 

the North Pit and South Pit. Mining of 

the North Pit and portions of the Mid Pit 

are predicted to extend below 

groundwater level and would require 

dewatering during portions of the 17- 

year mine life. All overburden would 

either be backfilled into mined-out 

portions of the mine pits or placed in 

the external East Overburden Pile (EOP) 

or Northwest Overburden Pile (NWOP). 

Other mine-related facilities would 

include an ore stockpile, a tipple (truck 

loading facility), an ore truck 

turnaround loop, an equipment yard, 

two water management ponds, topsoil 

stockpiles, roads and sediment control 

structures. Approximately 739 acres of 

surface are expected to be disturbed 

over the life of the project, with about 

640 acres (85 percent) planned to be revegetated. Fifteen percent of the mine 

site would involve residual highwalls 

that cannot be re-vegetated. 

As phosphate mining has developed 

in southeast Idaho, increasing concern 

for surface and groundwater 

contamination has led to the 

development of various Best 

Management Practices (BMPs) to control 

potential selenium migration from the 

mines. An impermeable or lowpermeability cover over external 

overburden piles and over pit backfilled 

areas is a way to reduce infiltration into 

the materials, and thus, reduce the 

potential leaching of selenium from the 

materials. 

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