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PROCESSING AND FILING FEE TABLE—Continued 

Document/action FY 2025 fee 

Site license application ................................................................................................................................................................... 80 

Assignment or transfer of site license ............................................................................................................................................ 80 

Coal (parts 3400, 3470): 

License to mine application ............................................................................................................................................................ 15 

Exploration license application ....................................................................................................................................................... 425 

Lease or lease interest transfer ..................................................................................................................................................... 85 

Leasing of Solid Minerals Other Than Coal and Oil Shale (parts 3500, 3580): 

Applications other than those listed below ..................................................................................................................................... 45 

Prospecting permit application amendment ................................................................................................................................... 85 

Extension of prospecting permit ..................................................................................................................................................... 140 

Lease modification or fringe acreage lease ................................................................................................................................... 40 

Lease renewal ................................................................................................................................................................................ 670 

Assignment, sublease, or transfer of operating rights ................................................................................................................... 40 

Transfer of overriding royalty ......................................................................................................................................................... 40 

Use permit ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 40 

Shasta and Trinity hardrock mineral lease .................................................................................................................................... 40 

Renewal of existing sand and gravel lease in Nevada .................................................................................................................. 40 

Public Law 359; Mining in Powersite Withdrawals: General (part 3730): 

Notice of protest of placer mining operations ................................................................................................................................ 15 

Mining Law Administration (parts 3800, 3810, 3830, 3860, 3870): 

Application to open lands to location ............................................................................................................................................. 15 

Notice of location ** ........................................................................................................................................................................ 25 

Amendment of location ................................................................................................................................................................... 15 

Transfer of mining claim/site .......................................................................................................................................................... 15 

Recording an annual FLPMA filing ................................................................................................................................................ 15 

Deferment of assessment work ...................................................................................................................................................... 140 

Recording a notice of intent to locate mining claims on Stockraising Homestead Act lands ....................................................... 40 

Mineral patent adjudication (more than 10 claims) ........................................................................................................................ 3,915 

(10 or fewer claims) ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1,955 

Adverse claim ................................................................................................................................................................................. 140 

Protest ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 85 

Oil Shale Management (parts 3900, 3910, 3930): 

Exploration license application ....................................................................................................................................................... 410 

Application for assignment or sublease of record title or overriding royalty .................................................................................. 85 

Onshore Oil and Gas Operations and Production (parts 3160, 3170): 

Application for Permit to Drill .......................................................................................................................................................... 12,515 

* These fees are new for FY 2025. The BLM adopted them in the final rule titled ‘‘Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process,’’ published on 

April 23, 2024 (89 FR 30916). 

** To record a mining claim or site location, this processing fee along with the initial maintenance fee and the one-time location fee required by 

statute and at 43 CFR part 3833 must be paid. 

David Rosenkrance, 

Assistant Director, Office of Energy, Minerals, 

and Realty Management. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

Notice of Availability of the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Cross-Tie 500-kV Transmission 

Project in Beaver, Juab, and Millard 

Counties, Utah, and Lincoln, Nye, and 

White Pine Counties, Nevada 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In compliance 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 United States Department of 

Agriculture—Forest Service (USDA 

Forest Service) announce the 

availability of the Cross-Tie 500-kilovolt 

(kV) Transmission Project (Cross-Tie 

Project or Project) Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (FEIS). 

DATES: The BLM will not issue a 

decision on the proposal for a minimum 

of 30 days after the date the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

publishes its Notice of Availability 

(NOA) of the FEIS in the Federal 

Register. The EPA usually publishes its 

NOAs on Fridays. The USDA Forest 

Service may issue a Record of Decision 

(ROD) after the pre-decisional 

administrative review process, also 

known as the objection process, has 

ended and the Reviewing Officer has 

responded in writing to all objections, 

and all concerns and instructions 

identified by the Reviewing Officer in 

the objection response have been 

addressed by the Responsible Official. 

The availability period and objection 

filing period will run concurrently. 

Following the conclusion of that 

availability period and objection 

process, RODs signed by the BLM and 

USDA Forest Service will document 

both agency’s final decisions and 

identify any conditions of approval. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Final EIS and 

documents pertinent to this proposal are 

electronically available for review on 

the BLM ePlanning project website at 

https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/ 

project/2018636/510 and copies of the 

Final EIS may be examined at the 

following locations: 

• BLM Bristlecone Field Office and 

Ely District Office, 702 North Industrial 

Way, Ely, Nevada 89301; 

• BLM Caliente Field Office, 1400 

Front Street, Caliente, Nevada, 89008; 

• BLM Cedar City Field Office and 

Color Country District Office, 176 East 

D.L. Sargent Drive, Cedar City, Utah 

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• BLM Fillmore Field Office, 95 East 

500 North, Fillmore, Utah 84631; 

• BLM West Desert District Office, 

491 North John Glenn Road, Salt Lake 

City, Utah 84116 

• Forest Service Humboldt-Toiyabe 

National Forest Ely Ranger District, 825 

Avenue E, Ely, Nevada, 89301; and 

• Forest Service Humboldt-Toiyabe 

National Forest Supervisor’s Office, 

1200 Franklin Way, Sparks, Nevada, 

89431. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amber Koski, BLM Project Manager, 

telephone 435–743–3125, address 95 

East 500 North, Fillmore, Utah 84631, or 

blm_ut_fm_cross-tie_project@blm.gov. 

Individuals in the United States who are 

deaf, deaf blind, hard of hearing, or have 

a speech disability, please dial 711 

(TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunication relay services. 

Individuals outside the United States 

should use the relay services offered 

within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

applicant, TransCanyon LLC 

(TransCanyon), submitted an 

Application for Transportation and 

Utility Systems and Facilities on 

Federal Lands (Standard Form 299) and 

a draft Plan of Development to the BLM 

and USDA Forest Service for a 

permanent facility BLM right-of-way 

(ROW) and a Forest Service special use 

permit (SUP) for the construction, 

operation and maintenance (O&M), and 

decommissioning of the Cross-Tie 500- 

kV Transmission Project. 

The BLM Fillmore Field Office, in 

coordination with cooperating agencies, 

prepared an EIS to analyze potential 

impacts from the Project and 

alternatives. New permanent and 

temporary land authorizations would be 

required to construct, operate, and 

maintain Project components. In Utah, 

TransCanyon’s Proposed Action would 

cross 110 miles of BLM land, 14 miles 

of State land, and 18 miles of private 

land, totaling 141 miles. In Nevada, 

TransCanyon’s Proposed Action would 

cross 63 miles of BLM land, eight miles 

of National Forest System land, four 

miles of private land, and one mile of 

State land, totaling 76 miles. 

TransCanyon would obtain these land 

rights through ROW grants from the 

BLM, a SUP from the Forest Service, 

and easements or fee purchases for nonFederal lands. 

Purpose and Need for the Proposed 

Action 

The purpose of this BLM Federal 

action is to respond to the ROW 

application submitted by TransCanyon 

for the construction, O&M, and 

decommissioning of the proposed 

transmission line between central Utah 

and east-central Nevada. The need for 

Federal action is established by the 

BLM’s responsibilities under title V of 

FLPMA (43 U.S.C. 1761), the BLM’s 

ROW regulations at 43 CFR part 2800, 

and other applicable Federal laws and 

policies to grant ROWs over public land. 

The purpose and need of the Forest 

Service Federal action is to respond to 

an application for a SUP submitted by 

TransCanyon for the construction, O&M, 

and decommissioning of the proposed 

500-kV transmission line on National 

Forest System land in east-central 

Nevada in compliance with FLPMA and 

the National Forest Management Act (16 

U.S.C. 1601–1614), as well as the 

Humboldt National Forest Land and 

Resource Management Plan, as 

amended, which provides forest-wide 

standards and guidelines for 

management of National Forest System 

land crossed by the Project. The SUP 

will govern use and occupancy of 

National Forest System land that is in 

the public interest while avoiding and 

minimizing adverse effects and ensuring 

consistency with land and resource 

management plans. 

FLPMA provides both the BLM and 

the Forest Service with discretion to 

authorize use of land they administer 

via ROWs or SUPs, taking into 

consideration impacts on natural and 

cultural resources. In doing so, the BLM 

and the Forest Service both must 

endeavor ‘‘to minimize damage to 

scenic and esthetic values and fish and 

wildlife habitat and otherwise protect 

the environment.’’ (43 U.S.C. 1765). The 

BLM and the Forest Service are 

reviewing the Proposed Action and 

other alternatives and will decide 

whether to approve, approve with 

modifications, or deny TransCanyon’s 

application, and may include terms, 

conditions, and stipulations authorized 

by law and regulation. 

Proposed Action and Alternatives 

TransCanyon’s Proposed Action 

includes an approximately 214-mile, 

1,500-megawatt, 500-kV high-voltage 

alternating current (HVAC) overhead 

transmission line which would be 

constructed between the Clover 

Substation in central Utah and the 

Robinson Summit Substation in eastcentral Nevada. The Project would be 

situated within a 250-foot-wide ROW, 

125 feet from centerline, which would 

maintain separation from other existing 

extra-high-voltage transmission lines as 

required by the North American Electric 

Reliability Corporation. The Project 

facilities would include a 500-kV HVAC 

overhead transmission line, new 

substation equipment at the Clover 

Substation in central Utah (within the 

existing substation footprint) and at the 

Robinson Summit Substation in eastcentral Nevada (within a 46-acre 

proposed expansion), regeneration 

stations near the line for the fiber optic 

ground wire, series compensation 

station(s), temporary and permanent 

access roads, and temporary work areas 

associated with construction activities. 

In addition to the Proposed Action 

and No Action Alternative (i.e., not 

granting the ROW/SUP), alternatives 

include modifications to the proposed 

route. Three alternative routes to reduce 

impacts on resources of concern were 

developed before the public scoping 

period during workshops with agency 

interdisciplinary teams and cooperating 

agencies. A fourth alternative was 

developed after the public scoping 

period in response to Tribal concerns. 

Alternative A (Agency Preferred 

Alternative) 

Alternative A would replace a portion 

of the Proposed Action in southeastern 

Juab County and northeastern Millard 

County, Utah, which would minimize 

potential effects to private landowners 

and their viewsheds in the area near 

Leamington, Utah, and would minimize 

potential effects to the Sevier River and 

agricultural property. 

Alternative A would largely follow 

the approved but currently unbuilt 

TransWest Express Transmission Project 

(TransWest Express) ROW, deviate from 

the Proposed Action in the east, and 

cross BLM-administered land and pass 

through a Greater Sage-grouse (GRSG) 

General Habitat Management Area, 

where the line is not co-located with the 

approved TransWest Express ROW. It 

would then follow the route of the 

approved TransWest Express ROW until 

it rejoins the Proposed Action at the line 

between Juab and Millard Counties. A 

23-mile-long segment of the Proposed 

Action would be replaced with the 27- 

mile-long segment of Alternative A, 

which would increase the total length of 

the route from 214 miles to 218 miles. 

Alternative B 

Alternative B would replace a portion 

of the Proposed Action alignment in 

central and western Millard County, 

Utah, which would minimize crossings 

of the Sevier A and Sevier B Military 

Operating Area (low-level flight training 

areas) that are part of the Department of 

Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range 

(UTTR). 

Alternative B would cross into Beaver 

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utility corridors to the Milford, Utah, 

area, then turn west and north following 

an identified utility corridor (with no 

current aboveground utilities) back to 

the Proposed Action alignment near the 

Utah-Nevada State line. A 69-mile-long 

segment of the Proposed Action would 

be replaced with the 158-mile-long 

segment of Alternative B, which would 

increase the total length of the route 

from 214 miles to 304 miles. 

Alternative C 

Alternative C would replace a portion 

of the Proposed Action alignment in 

eastern White Pine County, Nevada, and 

was developed in consideration of 

concerns regarding the culturally 

sensitive Swamp Cedars Area of Critical 

Concern and Bahsahwahbee Traditional 

Cultural Property. 

This alternative would diverge from 

the Proposed Action alignment and 

follow U.S. Highway 6/50 southwest, 

then follow State Route 893 northwest 

back to the Proposed Action alignment. 

A 7-mile-long segment of the Proposed 

Action would be replaced with the 13- 

mile-long segment of Alternative C, 

which would increase the total length of 

the route from 214 miles to 221 miles. 

Alternative D 

Alternative D was developed to avoid 

sensitive resource areas in Spring 

Valley, Nevada. Alternative D would 

replace a portion of the Proposed Action 

alignment in Millard County, Utah, and 

eastern White Pine County, Nevada. 

Alternative D would follow Alternative 

B through Beaver County, Utah, then 

depart from Alternative B shortly after 

reentering Millard County, Utah. It 

would then head west, north of the 

county line, rerouted in the southwest 

corner of Millard County, Utah, to avoid 

the Lands with Wilderness 

Characteristic (LWC) Inventory Unit 

Jackson Wash (UT–C010–121), and 

cross into Lincoln County, Nevada. 

From there, the route would head west, 

then southwest to an Ely District 

resource management plan (RMP) 

corridor near Atlanta, Nevada. The route 

would then follow the RMP corridor 

west and south until it intersects the 

Section 368 Energy Corridor that 

contains the existing One Nevada 

Transmission Line. It would then follow 

the One Nevada Transmission Line 

north to the Robinson Summit 

Substation. A 145-mile-long segment of 

the Proposed Action route would be 

replaced with the 297-mile-long 

segment of Alternative D, which would 

increase the total length of the route 

from 214 miles to 366 miles. 

Key Mitigation Measures 

The Project is anticipated to cause 

direct and indirect impacts during 

construction, O&M, and 

decommissioning. During construction, 

impacts would occur from land 

disturbance; operation of construction 

equipment; installation of towers, access 

roads, and other facilities; and presence 

of work forces. During O&M, impacts 

would occur from continued presence of 

Project facilities and from maintenance 

activities. Impacts from 

decommissioning would be similar to 

those expected from the construction 

phase. Cumulative impacts from 

relevant reasonably foreseeable future 

actions are disclosed in the FEIS. 

Applicant-Committed Environmental 

Protection Measures (ACEPMs) are 

included as part of the Agency Preferred 

Alternative and have been identified to 

reduce impacts on environmental 

resources. These measures would apply 

to all action alternatives. TransCanyon 

and its contractors would adhere to the 

ACEPMs identified during the 

engineering/design phase and to the 

measures addressing construction and 

O&M activities. A full list of the 

ACEPMs can be found in Appendix A: 

Plan of Development. Additionally, 

direct and indirect impacts to GRSG 

habitat have been analyzed and used to 

determine compensatory mitigation 

requirements. 

Lead and Cooperating Agencies 

The BLM, as the lead Federal agency 

for preparing the EIS, invited Federal, 

Tribal, State, and local agencies to serve 

as cooperating agencies. In total, 56 

agencies were invited. The following 

entities accepted the invitation and are 

participating as cooperating agencies: 

Federal Agencies 

• Forest Service (Humboldt-Toiyabe 

National Forest, Ely Ranger District) 

• U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency 

• Department of Defense, Military 

Aviation and Installation Assurance 

Siting Clearinghouse 

• Department of Defense, UTTR 

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

State Agencies 

• Utah Public Lands Policy 

Coordinating Office, with multiple 

State of Utah entities participating 

through this office: 

Æ University of Utah Telescope Array 

Project 

Æ Utah Department of Agriculture 

and Food 

Æ Utah Department of Transportation 

Æ Utah Division of Wildlife Resources 

Æ Utah Trust Lands Administration 

• Nevada Department of Wildlife 

• Nevada Division of Minerals 

• Nevada Sagebrush Ecosystem Program 

• Nevada Division of State Lands 

• Nevada N–4 State Grazing Board 

Local Agencies 

• Beaver County, Utah 

• Juab County, Utah 

• Millard County, Utah 

• Lincoln County, Nevada 

• Nye County, Nevada 

• White Pine County, Nevada 

• City of Ely, Nevada 

• Lincoln County Conservation District 

Tribal Governments 

• Duckwater Shoshone Tribe 

• Te-Moak Tribe of Western ShoshoneElko Band 

The BLM and Forest Service have also 

engaged in government-to-government 

consultation with affected Tribes and 

will continue Tribal engagement during 

all phases of the planning process in 

accordance with applicable Federal 

statutes, regulations, and other 

authorities, including the National 

Historic Preservation Act, the American 

Indian Religious Freedom Act, 

Executive Order 13175 (Consultation 

and Coordination with Indian Tribal 

Governments), and Executive Order 

13007 (Indian Sacred Sites). 

Public Involvement 

The BLM published a Notice of Intent 

(NOI) to prepare the EIS in the Federal 

Register on May 2, 2022 (87 FR 25656). 

The scoping process began with the 

publication of the NOI in the Federal 

Register, and ran from May 2, 2022, to 

June 1, 2022. During the scoping period, 

the BLM sought public comments to 

identify issues to be addressed in the 

EIS. 

Two virtual public scoping meetings 

were held on May 17 and May 18, 2022. 

In total, 59 letter submissions were 

received from the public during the 

scoping period either via the U.S. Postal 

Service, email, recorded telephone line, 

or via telephone to the BLM Project 

Manager. 

The BLM published a Draft EIS Notice 

of Availability (NOA) in the Federal 

Register on November 9, 2023 (88 FR 

77358). Although the NOA defined the 

end date of the public comment period 

as January 2, 2024, the BLM extended 

the comment period through January 9, 

2024. The BLM held four in-person 

meetings and one virtual meeting in 

November and December 2023. 

Meetings were held in Nephi, Milford, 

and Delta, Utah, and Ely, Nevada. The 

BLM also met with the Leamington, 

Utah town council in December 2023. 

The BLM received a total of 583 

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period. Of the submissions, 420 were 

identical copy letters, 89 were form 

letters with additional text, 73 were 

unique letters, and one was a duplicate 

submission. Principle comment issues 

included: 

• Wildlife impact concerns, including 

birds, bats, big game, amphibians, 

pollinators and insects, general wildlife, 

special-status species, and GRSG; 

• Lands with Wilderness 

Characteristics impact concerns; 

• Visual resource impact concerns; 

and 

• Cultural resource impact concerns. 

Public and stakeholder comments also 

provided specific edits and corrections 

to EIS sections and general support or 

opposition to the proposed Project. 

Final EIS Revisions 

Comments on the Draft EIS received 

from the public and internal BLM 

review were considered and 

incorporated as appropriate into the 

Final EIS. Public comments resulted in 

the addition of clarifications and 

analysis, but comments did not identify 

significant new circumstances or 

information relevant to environmental 

concerns that have bearing upon the 

proposed action. 

In response to public comments on 

the Draft EIS, revisions were made to 

the Final EIS. The agency made 

micrositing changes within the 0.5-mile 

wide siting corridor at Marjum Pass in 

Millard County, Utah, which is 

analyzed as part of the Agency Preferred 

Alternative within the Final EIS. The 

LWC, Transportation, Visual Resources, 

and Wilderness Study Areas sections of 

the Final EIS include updated analysis 

for the Agency Preferred Alternative 

micrositing at Marjum Pass. Impacts 

from the Agency Preferred Alternative 

would be the same as described under 

the Proposed Action for the following: 

air quality; climate change/greenhouse 

gases; cultural and heritage resources; 

fire and fuels management; geology, 

minerals, and renewable energy 

production; inventoried roadless areas; 

land use; livestock grazing; noxious and 

invasive weeds; paleontology; 

recreation; socioeconomics and 

environmental justice; soils; vegetation; 

water resources; wildlife; and 

woodlands. 

In addition to micrositing in Marjum 

Pass, the agency widened the 0.5-milewide siting corridor in two specific 

areas (Utah-Nevada border west of 

Garrison, Utah; and Steptoe Valley, 

Nevada) where public comments noted 

administrative constraints that would 

preclude or interfere with existing 

infrastructure, private lands, and 

specially managed areas. Widening the 

siting corridor in these locations allows 

for the flexibility of the centerline to 

shift. The 0.5-mile-wide siting corridor 

was also reduced after publication of the 

Draft EIS in multiple locations across 

Nevada to remove locations outside 

designated utility corridors. These are 

locations where siting of the 

transmission line would not be in 

conformance with the Nevada and 

Northeastern California Greater SageGrouse Approved Resource 

Management Plan Amendment (NevadaCalifornia ARMPA) (BLM 2015b), as 

described below. The 0.5-mile-wide 

siting corridor and centerline were also 

shifted in the southwest corner of 

Millard County, Utah, to avoid the LWC 

Inventory Unit Jackson Wash (UT– 

C010–121). 

In early 2024, the United States 

Geological Survey issued a draft annual 

update report related to GRSG that 

disclosed an adaptive management 

trigger identified in the NevadaCalifornia ARMPA that was tripped for 

the third year in a row for a lek cluster 

within the area near the western 

terminus of the Project at Robinson 

Summit Substation (Prochazka et al. 

2024). The individual annual triggers 

are defined as soft triggers in the 

Nevada-California ARMPA, and the 

plan provided that tripping three soft 

triggers in consecutive years (2021, 

2022, and 2023) equates to a hard 

trigger. In response to tripping a hard 

trigger, the ARMPA identifies any land 

outside designated utility corridors and 

within GRSG habitat management areas 

as exclusion areas for new high-voltage 

transmission. There is an approximately 

1-mile-long segment of the proposed 

Project and action alternatives that 

would be located outside the designated 

utility corridor across GRSG habitat 

management areas and whose 

authorization would not conform to the 

approved Nevada-California ARMPA 

based on this new information. Through 

a separate process, the BLM is currently 

reconsidering its 2015 GRSG planning 

decisions, including its management of 

the lands being considered for this 

proposed Project segment. The BLM 

published a NOA for the draft GRSG 

RMP amendments on March 15, 2024. 

The BLM will ensure that its decision 

responding to the application for the 

Project will conform to the land use 

plans approved at the time of the record 

of decision, consistent with 43 CFR 

1610.5–3. 

Additional updates were made to 

address public concerns within the 

following resource sections: renewable 

energy resources, visual resources, 

Reasonably Foreseeable Future Actions 

and cumulative impacts, GRSG, and 

LWC. 

Agency Decisions 

Based on the environmental analysis 

in this Final EIS, the BLM Utah State 

Director will decide whether to 

authorize the ROW grant, authorize with 

modifications, or deny the application 

based on the proposed Project, 

alternatives, or any combination thereof 

on Public Lands. The Forest Service will 

issue a separate ROD specific to its 

decision whether to authorize a SUP on 

National Forest System land. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10) 

Christina Judd, 

Acting State Director, Utah. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[BLM_NV_FRN_4500181325] 

Notice of Availability of the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Ioneer Rhyolite Ridge LLC’s Rhyolite 

Ridge Lithium-Boron Mine Project, 

Esmeralda County, Nevada 

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) 

announces the availability of the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron 

Mine Project (Project) proposed by 

Ioneer Rhyolite Ridge LLC (Ioneer) in 

Esmeralda County, Nevada. 

DATES: The BLM will not issue a 

decision on the proposal for a minimum 

of 30 days after the date that the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

publishes its Notice of Availability 

(NOA) in the Federal Register. The EPA 

usually publishes its NOAs on Fridays. 

ADDRESSES: The Final EIS and 

documents pertinent to this proposal are 

available for review on the BLM’s 

National NEPA Register (ePlanning) at 

https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/ 

project/2012309/510. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Scott Distel, Project Manager, telephone: 

(775) 635–4093; email: sdistel@blm.gov; 

address: 50 Bastian Road, Battle 

Mountain, NV 89820. Individuals in the 

United States who are deaf, deafblind, 


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