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Mountain Cooperative Management and 

Protection Area as described in Title 1, 

Subtitle D of Public Law 106–399. Each 

member will be a person who, as a 

result of training and experience, has 

knowledge or special expertise that 

qualifies him or her to provide advice 

from among the categories of interest 

listed above. 

Members of the Steens Mountain 

Advisory Council are appointed for a 3- 

year term. Appointment to these four 

positions will begin on earlier than 

October 2007 and will end October 

2010. 

Members will serve without monetary 

compensation, but will be reimbursed 

for travel and per diem expenses at 

current rates for Government 

employees. The Steens Mountain 

Advisory Council shall meet only at the 

call of the Designated Federal Official, 

but not less than once per year. 

Dated: January 10, 2007. 

Dana R. Shuford, 

Burns District Manager, Bureau of Land 

Management, Burns, Oregon. 

[FR Doc. 07–1534 Filed 3–29–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–33–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[WY–030–07–5101–ER–K087; WYW–166510] 

Notice of Availability (NOA) To 

Announce the Release of the Overland 

Pass Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

(DEIS) 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) announces the 

availability of the Overland Pass (OP) 

Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) Pipeline 

DEIS. The DEIS analyzes the 

consequences of granting a Right-of-Way 

(ROW) to the Overland Pass Pipeline 

Company, LLC for locating a 760-mile, 

14-inch and 16-inch diameter NGL 

pipeline on Federal land. 

DATES: The BLM will review all public 

comments if they are submitted within 

45 days following the date the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

publishes this NOA in the Federal 

Register. All public meetings or other 

involvement activities for the OP NGL 

Pipeline project will be announced to 

the public by the BLM at least 15 days 

in advance through public notices, 

media news releases, Web site 

announcements, or mailings. The BLM 

will not be holding formal public 

hearings on this DEIS. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the DEIS have 

been sent to affected Federal, State, and 

local governments and to interested 

parties that previously requested a copy. 

The DEIS and supporting documents 

will be available electronically on the 

following Web site: http:// 

www.wy.blm.gov/nepa/index.htm. 

Copies of the DEIS are available for 

public inspection during normal 

business hours at the following 

locations: 

• Bureau of Land Management, 

Wyoming State Office, Public Room, 

5353 Yellowstone, Cheyenne, Wyoming 

82003; 

• Bureau of Land Management, 

Rawlins Field Office, 1300 North Third 

St, Rawlins, Wyoming 82301; 

• Bureau of Land Management, Rock 

Springs Field Office, 280 Highway 191 

N., Rock Springs, Wyoming 82901; 

• Bureau of Land Management, 

Kemmerer Field Office, 312 Highway 

189 N., Kemmerer, Wyoming 83101; and 

• U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

Pawnee National Grasslands, 660 O 

Street, Greeley, Colorado 80631. 

Copies of the DEIS will also be 

delivered to public libraries in the 

following communities: 

• Green River, Rock Springs, Rawlins, 

Laramie, and Cheyenne, Wyoming; 

• Greeley, Fort Collins, Yuma, and 

Wray, Colorado; and 

• Colby, WaKeeney, Hays, and 

McPherson, Kansas. 

A limited number of copies of the 

document will be available as long as 

supplies last. To request a copy, contact 

Tom Hurshman, Project Manager, as 

described below. 

Written comments may be submitted 

by the following methods: 

• Web site: http://www.blm.gov/rfo/ 

nepa.htm. 

• E-mail: 

overland_pipeline_wy@blm.gov. 

• Facsimile: (307) 328–4224 Attn: 

Tom Hurshman, or 

• Mail: Tom Hurshman, Project 

Manager, Bureau of Land Management, 

Rawlins Field Office, 1300 North Third 

St, Rawlins, Wyoming 82301. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom 

Hurshman, Project Manager, Bureau of 

Land Management, Uncompahgre Field 

Office, 2465 South Townsend Ave., 

Montrose, CO 81401. Mr. Hurshman 

may be reached by telephone at (970) 

240–5345. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

project would transport up to 150,000 

barrels per day of NGL. The proposed 

OP Pipeline would originate in Opal, 

Wyoming, and terminate at existing 

NGL processing facilities in Conway, 

Kansas. The OP Pipeline route would 

cross approximately 123 miles of 

Federal land in Wyoming and Colorado. 

In Wyoming, approximately 98 miles of 

the proposed pipeline route would cross 

public lands administered by three BLM 

Field Offices: Kemmerer, Rock Springs, 

and Rawlins. 

In addition, the OP Pipeline location 

would cross two units of the National 

Forest System administered by the 

United States Department of 

Agriculture, Forest Service. The 

proposed pipeline location includes 

approximately 2 miles of the Flaming 

Gorge National Recreation Area, and 

approximately 23 miles of the Pawnee 

National Grassland north of Greeley, 

Colorado. No Federal land in Kansas 

would be affected by this proposal. 

In the fall of 2005, Williams Field 

Services, doing business as Overland 

Pass Pipeline Company LLC (Overland 

Pass Company), submitted to the BLM 

an application for a ROW grant across 

Federal lands to locate a pipeline up to 

20 inches in diameter that would be 

used to transport NGLs from Opal, 

Wyoming, to an existing processing 

facility in Conway, Kansas. (NGLs are 

naturally occurring heavier hydrocarbon 

liquids that are associated with the 

production of natural gas such as 

methane. NGLs include ethane and are 

primarily used to produce plastics, 

propane, butanes, and natural gasoline.) 

On March 24, 2006, the BLM published 

in the Federal Register a Notice of 

Intent (NOI ) to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

under the National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA) and as required by 43 

Code of Federal Regulations Part 2880. 

To allow the public an opportunity to 

review the proposal and project 

information, the BLM held public 

meetings during April 2006 in Rock 

Springs and Cheyenne, Wyoming; 

Greeley, Colorado; and Hays, Kansas. 

Potential impacts to specific resources 

such as water quality and quantity, 

threatened and endangered and 

sensitive species, construction impacts 

to vegetation communities and historic 

trails, and pipeline route and location 

near residential development were 

identified during scoping and analyzed 

in the DEIS. Overland Pass Company 

made a number of minor re-routes to 

their original proposal as submitted. 

Three actions were analyzed in the 

DEIS: No Action Alternative; Proposed 

Action Alternative, and the Southern 

Energy Corridor. The No Action 

Alternative means that the project as 

proposed by Overland Pass Company in 

its ROW application would be rejected 

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Alternative, the BLM would not issue a 

ROW grant for the OP Pipeline. The 

project, including the pipeline, 

temporary access roads, and temporary 

use areas during construction, would 

not be approved or authorized as 

described in the ROW application. The 

BLM’s preferred alternative is the 

Proposed Action Alternative. The 

Proposed Action Alternative analyzed 

in the DEIS reflects minor revisions to 

the original route as proposed by 

Overland Pass Company. The Southern 

Energy Corridor Alternative reflects the 

Green River Resource Management 

Plan’s preferred locations for future 

proposed ROWS. Other alternatives, 

including transportation system 

alternatives and route variations, were 

considered, but not studied in detail. 

The DEIS analyzes the potential 

environmental consequences of granting 

Overland Pass Company a ROW to 

construct an approximately 760-mile 

pipeline that would transport NGLs 

from Opal, Wyoming, to its terminus at 

the company’s existing facilities in 

Conway, Kansas. The pipeline would be 

approximately 14 inches in diameter 

between Opal and Echo Springs, 

Wyoming, and 16 inches in diameter 

from Echo Springs, Wyoming, to 

Conway, Kansas. 

As part of the proposed action, the OP 

Pipeline would be routed across 

southern Wyoming from Opal to Echo 

Springs along various existing utility or 

pipeline ROWs. From Echo Springs, the 

pipeline ROW would run in a 

southeasterly direction, paralleling the 

existing Southern Star Pipeline, and 

proceed to the south of Cheyenne, 

Wyoming, before entering Colorado. A 

major portion of the proposed route in 

Wyoming would cross public lands 

administered by the BLM. 

From the Colorado border, the 

pipeline ROW would continue to 

parallel Southern Star Pipeline 

southeasterly crossing the Pawnee 

National Grassland, which is 

administered by the USDA Forest 

Service, and then into Kansas. From the 

Colorado-Kansas state line, the OP 

Pipeline would continue to run parallel 

to the Southern Star Pipeline to south of 

WaKeeney, Kansas. It would then follow 

an existing BP Amoco pipeline to 

Bushton, Kansas. From this point, the 

OP Pipeline would not parallel existing 

pipelines until reaching Mitchell, 

Kansas, where it would then follow an 

existing Williams Pipeline to the 

termination point at Conway, Kansas. 

At Bushton and Conway, Kansas, the 

transported NGL would be processed at 

existing facilities and distributed 

through an existing transportation 

infrastructure to consumer markets in 

the Midwest and Texas Gulf of Mexico 

coast. About 82 percent of the proposed 

760-mile pipeline would be co-located 

within existing pipeline ROW corridors. 

In addition to the pipeline, three electric 

pump stations would be needed to move 

the NGL at a maximum pressure of 

1,440 pounds per square inch gauge 

(psig) through the pipeline. The pump 

stations are proposed to be located near 

Echo Springs and Laramie, Wyoming, 

and near WaKeeney, Kansas. The 

pipeline would have manual or selfactuating shut-off valves at regular 

intervals, as well as cleaning facilities 

and meter stations. 

The OP Pipeline would be 

constructed and installed within a 75- 

foot-wide construction area. After 

construction and reclamation, the 

permanent ROW would be 50 feet wide, 

centered on the pipeline. All temporary 

workspace areas needed for 

construction activities outside the 50 

foot wide permanent ROW would 

require Temporary Use Permits. 

All comment submittals must include 

the commenter’s name and street 

address. Comments, including the 

names and street addresses of 

respondent, will be available for public 

review at the Rawlins Field Office 

during its business hours (7:45 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m.), Monday through Friday, 

except for Federal holidays. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

e-mail address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, be advised 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 from public review your 

personal identifying information, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Dated: February 21, 2007. 

Robert A. Bennett, 

State Director. 

[FR Doc. E7–5575 Filed 3–29–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[NV–040–07–5110–CF05 1990–EX–1990; 

N82888] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for an 

Expansion of Mining Operations at 

Barrick Gold Corporation’s Bald 

Mountain and Money Basin Mines, NV 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

102(2)(c) of the National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969 and 43 CFR part 

3809, the Bureau of Land Management 

(BLM) Ely Field Office, Nevada intends 

to prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) for a proposed 

consolidation and expansion of the 

existing Plans of Operation for Barrick 

Gold Corporation’s Bald Mountain Mine 

and Mooney Basin Mine located in 

White Pine County, Nevada. The two 

existing mines would be combined into 

one new expanded operation which 

would be called the North Operations 

Area. The EIS will analyze anticipated 

impacts of the expansion under this 

new consolidated Plan of Operation, 

and will incorporate analysis from a 

previous EIS and environmental 

assessments associate with the existing 

disturbance. 

DATES: Publication of this notice 

initiates the public scoping process. 

Scoping meetings will be held in Ely, 

Elko, and Eureka, Nevada. All public 

meetings will be announced through 

local news media, newsletters or flyers, 

and will be posted on the BLM Web site, 

http://www.nv.blm.gov/ely/ 

2007_releases.htm at least 15 days prior 

to each event. 

The minutes and list of attendees for 

each meeting will be available to the 

public and open for 30 days after the 

meeting to any participants who wish to 

clarify the views they expressed. 

Comments and resource information 

should be submitted to the BLM within 

30 days of publication of this notice in 

the Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• E-mail: lynn_bjorklund@nv.glm.gov. 

• Fax: 775–189–1910. 

• Mail: Bureau of Land Management, 

Ely Field Office, Attention: Lynn 

Bjorklund, HC33 Box 33500, Ely, 

Nevada, 89301. 

Documents pertinent to this proposal 

may be examined at the Ely Field Office. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information and/or to have your 

name added to our mailing list, contact 

Lynn Bjorklund, Ely Field Office, at 775 

289–1893 or by e-mail to 

lynn_bjorklund@nv.blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Barrick 

Gold Corporation has submitted a 

proposal to expand and consolidate 

their existing Bald Mountain and 

Mooney Basin Mines, which are located 

approximately 65 air miles northwest of 

the town of Ely, Nevada. The project 

(consolidating the existing Bald 

Mountain Mine N–68193 and Mooney 


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