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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4777-4778]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01042]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[PO #4820000251]

Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for the Jove 
Solar Project, La Paz County, Arizona

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 
announces the availability of the Record of Decision for the Jove Solar 
Project, located in La Paz County, Arizona. The Record of Decision 
signed on January 3, 2025, constitutes the decision of the BLM, as 
approved by the Department of the Interior.

DATES: The Department of the Interior approved the BLM's Record of 
Decision on January 3, 2025.

ADDRESSES: The Record of Decision, Final Environmental Impact 
Statement, and other documents pertinent to the Jove Solar Project are 
available for review on the BLM ePlanning project website at: https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2017881/510. Printed copies of 
the Record of Decision are available at the BLM Yuma Field Office, 7341 
East 30th Street, Yuma, Arizona 85365.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Derek Eysenbach, Project Manager, at 
[email protected], Bureau of Land Management, One North Central 
Avenue, Suite 800, Phoenix, Arizona 85004, or by phone at (602) 417-
9505. Individuals in the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of 
hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or 
TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services for contacting 
Mr. Eysenbach. Individuals outside the United States should use the 
relay services offered within their country to make international calls 
to the point-of-contact in the United States.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of the Interior has approved 
the BLM's decision to issue a right-of-way grant for an initial term of 
30 years for construction, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning 
of a utility-scale solar photovoltaic facility, called the Jove Solar 
Project. The Project encompasses 3,495 acres of public lands 
administered by the BLM Yuma Field Office and 38 acres administered by 
La Paz County, located in southeastern La Paz County, Arizona, south of 
Interstate 10 midway between Phoenix and the California border, 
approximately 22 miles east-southeast of the community of Brenda and 
the I-10/Highway 60 junction, and 30 miles west of the community of 
Tonopah. The Jove Solar Project consists of up to 1.2 million solar 
photovoltaic modules and associated infrastructure, new and improved 
roads, and powerlines for collection and transmission of electricity to 
the Cielo Azul Switchyard adjacent to the Ten West Link 500-kilovolt 
transmission line and will have a generation capacity of 600 megawatts 
or more.
    The decision to authorize this energy generation project on public 
lands is consistent with FLPMA and the BLM's right-of-way regulations 
((43 U.S.C.

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1761) (https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/43/1761)); ((43 CFR part 
2800) (https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-43/part-2800)). Approval of 
this right-of-way grant constitutes the final decision of the 
Department of the Interior and is not subject to appeal under 
Departmental regulations at 43 CFR part 4 (https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-43/part-4).

(Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1761 and 43 CFR part 2800)

Raymond Suazo,
State Director.
[FR Doc. 2025-01042 Filed 1-15-25; 8:45 am]
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