[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 165 (Friday, August 26, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 50398]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-16951]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NV-060-3809]


Notice of Availability for the Ruby Hill Mine Expansion--East 
Archimedes Project Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement; A 
Proposed Expansion of Existing Gold Mining/Processing Operations in 
Eureka County, NV

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management.
    Cooperating Agencies: Nevada Department of Wildlife and Eureka 
County.

ACTION: Notice of availability for the Ruby Hill Mine Expansion--East 
Archimedes Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 and the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations 
found at 40 CFR 1500-1508, notice is hereby given of the availability 
of the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for comment, 
prepared by the Battle Mountain Field Office of the Bureau of Land 
Management (BLM). The statement analyzes the environmental effects of 
the Proposed Action and the No Action Alternatives.

DATES: Written comments must be post-marked or otherwise delivered by 
4:30 p.m. (Pacific time zone) by no later than 30 days after the date 
of publication of this Notice in the Federal Register.
    Comments, including names and addresses or respondents, will be 
available for public review at the above address during regular 
business hours, Monday-Friday, excluding holidays. Individual 
respondents may request confidentiality. If you wish to withhold your 
name or street address from public review or from disclosure under the 
Freedom of Information Act, you must state this prominently at the 
beginning of your written comment. However, we will not consider 
anonymous comments. Such requests to withhold your name or street 
address from public review will be honored to the extent allowed by 
law. All submissions from organizations or business, and from 
individuals identifying themselves as representatives of officials of 
organizations or businesses, will be available for public inspection in 
their entirety. A limited number of copies of the Final Supplemental 
EIS may be obtained at the Battle Mountain BLM Field Office.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to the Bureau of Land 
Management, attn: Caleb Hiner, Battle Mountain Field Office, 50 Bastian 
Road, Battle Mountain, Nevada 89820.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Caleb Hiner, Battle Mountain BLM at 
(775) 635-4052.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Proposed Action would develop the East 
Archimedes deposit which was defined in the original EIS (approved 
February 3, 1997) as a Reasonably Foreseeable Future Action. The 
Proposed Action would consist of an extension of the existing pit, 
expansion of the existing west and east waste rock disposal areas, the 
expansion of the existing heap leach pad, and construction of 
dewatering facilities. Under the Proposed Action an estimated 
additional 744 acres of disturbance would occur, all disturbance 
proposed under the expansion falls within the footprint of the project 
boundary as analyzed in the original EIS.

Gerald M. Smith,
Field Manager.
[FR Doc. 05-16951 Filed 8-25-05; 8:45 am]
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