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delegated to him by the Secretary of Homeland 

Security. Section 403(2) of the Homeland Security 

Act (HSA) of 2002, Public Law 107–296, 116 Stat. 

2315 (Nov. 25, 2002), transferred all functions of 

TSA, including those of the Secretary of 

Transportation and the Under Secretary of 

Transportation of Security related to TSA, to the 

Secretary of Homeland Security. Pursuant to DHS 

Delegation Number 7060.2, the Secretary delegated 

to the Assistant Secretary (now referred to as the 

Administrator of TSA), subject to the Secretary’s 

guidance and control, the authority vested in the 

Secretary with respect to TSA, including that in sec. 

403(2) of the HSA. 

required to ‘‘assess the security of each 

surface transportation mode and 

evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency 

of current Federal Government surface 

transportation security initiatives.’’ E.O. 

13416, sec. 3(a) (Dec. 5, 2006). 

TSA developed the BASE program in 

2007, in an effort to engage with surface 

transportation entities to establish a 

‘‘baseline’’ of security and emergency 

response operations. This program was 

initially created for Mass Transit/ 

Passenger Rail (MT/PR) (including rail 

and bus operations) and passenger rail. 

Based on the success of the program, 

TSA developed the Highway (HWY) 

BASE program in 2012, which achieved 

full implementation in 2013. The HWY 

BASE applies to trucking, school bus 

contractors, school districts, and overthe-road motor coach. This voluntary 

program enables TSA to collect and 

evaluate physical and operational 

preparedness information and critical 

assets and key point-of-contact lists. 

TSA also reviews emergency procedures 

and domain awareness training and 

provides an opportunity to share 

industry best practices. The program 

provides TSA with current information 

on adopted security-practices within the 

MT/PR and HWY modes of the surface 

transportation sector. The information 

collected also allows TSA to 

dynamically adapt programs to the 

changing threat with an understanding 

of the improvements surface 

transportation entities make in their 

security posture. Without this 

information, the ability for TSA to 

perform its security mission would be 

severely hindered. Additionally, the 

relationships these face-to-face contacts 

foster are critical to TSA’s ability to 

reach out to the surface transportation 

entities participating in the BASE 

program. 

Absent this program, there would be 

no consistent data about these 

transportation security programs, nor a 

database that could be used to 

benchmark the programs. While many 

MT/PR and HWY entities have security 

and emergency response plans or 

protocols in place, the BASE provides a 

consistent approach to evaluate the 

extent to which security programs exists 

and the content of those programs. 

The Government Accountability 

Office, audit GA–20–404, recommended 

TSA update the BASE cybersecurity 

questions to ensure they reflect key 

practices. As a result, TSA is revising 

the collection to include all five core 

functions of the National Institute of 

Standards and Technology 

cybersecurity framework. All core 

functions and a majority of the 

subcategories are amalgamated with 

industry best practices in the newly 

developed cybersecurity questions and 

cyber annex, strengthening the 

cybersecurity health for the 

transportation sector. 

In carrying out the voluntary BASE 

program, TSA’s Transportation Security 

Inspectors-Surface (TSIs-S) conduct 

BASE reviews during site visits with 

security and operating officials of MT/ 

PR and HWY systems, throughout the 

Nation. The TSIs-S receive and 

document relevant information using a 

standardized electronic checklist. 

Advance coordination and planning 

ensures the efficiency of the assessment 

process. The TSIs-S review and analyze 

the stakeholders’ security plan, if 

adopted, and determine if the mitigation 

measures included in the plan are being 

effectively implemented, while 

providing additional resources for 

further security enhancement. In 

addition to examining the security plan 

document, TSIs-S reviews one or more 

assets of the private and/or public 

owner/operator. 

During BASE site visits of MT/PR and 

HWY entities, TSIs-S collect 

information and complete a BASE 

checklist from the review of each 

entity’s documents, plans, and 

procedures. They also interview 

appropriate entity personnel and 

conduct system observations prompted 

by questions raised during the 

document review and interview stages. 

TSA conducts the interviews to 

ascertain and clarify information on 

security measures and to identify 

security gaps. The interviews also 

provide TSA with a method to 

encourage the surface transportation 

entities participating in the BASE 

reviews to be diligent in effecting and 

maintaining security-related 

improvements. 

While TSA has not set a limit on the 

number of BASE program reviews to 

conduct, TSA estimates it will conduct 

approximately 75 MT/PR BASE reviews 

and approximately 107 HWY BASE 

reviews on an annual basis. TSA does 

not intend to conduct more than one 

BASE review per mass transit or 

passenger rail system in a single year. 

TSA estimates that the hour burden per 

MT/PR entity to engage its security and/ 

or operating officials with inspectors in 

the interactive BASE program review 

process is approximately 11.7 hours, 

while those who choose to also take the 

new cyber annex assessment will spend 

17.7 hours. Also, TSA estimates that the 

hour burden per HWY entity to engage 

its security and/or operating officials 

with inspectors in the interactive BASE 

program review process is 

approximately 1.8 hours, while those 

who choose to also take the new cyber 

annex assessment will spend 7.8 hours. 

Thus, the total annual hour burden for 

the MT/PR BASE program review is 

1,196 hours annually and for HWY 

BASE 512 hours annually. 

Christina A. Walsh, 

TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, 

Information Technology. 

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BILLING CODE 9110–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLNM930000 L51010000.ER0000 

LVRWG19G0690 19XL5017AP] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Resource Management Plan 

Amendments for the SunZia Southwest 

Transmission Project, New Mexico 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) New Mexico State 

Office (NMSO), Santa Fe, New Mexico 

(NM), intends to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

to analyze the environmental impacts 

associated with SunZia’s application 

seeking to amend its right-of-way grant 

for the SunZia Southwest Transmission 

Project. Proposed amendments to 

SunZia’s right-of-way grant may require 

plan amendments to the Socorro Field 

Office Resource Management Plan, the 

Las Cruces District Mimbres Resource 

Management Plan, the Sevilleta 

National Wildlife Refuge 

Comprehensive Conservation Plan, and 

the Cibola National Forest Land and 

Resource Management Plan, which the 

agencies will analyze in the EIS. BLM 

NMSO is the lead agency for purposes 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) analysis with the U.S. Fish 

& Wildlife Service (FWS), U.S. Forest 

Service (FS), National Park Service 

(NPS), and other agencies serving as 

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cooperating agencies. This Notice 

initiates the scoping process and opens 

a 30-day public comment period to 

solicit public comments and identify 

issues. 

DATES: The BLM requests comments 

concerning the scope of the analysis and 

identification of relevant information, 

studies, and analyses. All comments 

must be received by July 6, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the ePlanning site: 

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

project/2011785/510. Comments and 

requests for additional information may 

also be sent to Adrian Garcia, Project 

Manager, Bureau of Land Management, 

New Mexico State Office, 301 Dinosaur 

Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87508. Verbal 

comment may also be submitted via a 

telephone hotline at 1–888–959–2510. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Adrian Garcia, Project Manager, Bureau 

of Land Management, New Mexico State 

Office, 301 Dinosaur Trail, Santa Fe, 

New Mexico 87508, telephone: (505) 

954–2199, or email: agarcia@blm.gov. 

Persons who use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) may call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800– 

877–8339 to contact the above 

individual during normal business 

hours. The FRS is available 24 hours a 

day, 7 days a week, to leave a message 

or question. You will receive a reply 

during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need for the Proposed 

Action 

In compliance with NEPA, and the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976, as amended, the BLM 

NMSO intends to prepare an EIS to 

analyze the environmental impacts 

associated with SunZia Transmission, 

LLC’s (SunZia) application seeking to 

amend its right-of-way grant for the 

SunZia Southwest Transmission Project 

(Project). Proposed amendments to 

SunZia’s right-of-way grant may require 

plan amendments to the Socorro Field 

Office Resource Management Plan, the 

Las Cruces District Mimbres Resource 

Management Plan, the Sevilleta 

National Wildlife Refuge 

Comprehensive Conservation Plan, and 

the Cibola National Forest Land and 

Resource Management Plan, which the 

agencies will analyze in the EIS. 

Preliminary Proposed Action and 

Alternatives 

The proposed Project is composed of 

two planned 500 kilovolt (kV) 

transmission lines located across 

approximately 520 miles of Federal, 

State, and private lands between central 

New Mexico and central Arizona. The 

purpose of the Project is to transport up 

to 4,500 megawatts of primarily 

renewable energy from New Mexico to 

markets in Arizona and California. The 

permitted route originates at a planned 

substation in Torrance County, New 

Mexico, and terminates at the existing 

Pinal Central Substation in Pinal 

County, Arizona. The Project traverses 

Lincoln, Socorro, Sierra, Luna, Grant, 

Hidalgo, Valencia, and Torrance 

counties in New Mexico and Graham, 

Greenlee, Cochise, Pinal, and Pima 

counties in Arizona. The route has four 

segments: 

• Segment 1: Pinal Central Substation to 

Willow Substation 

• Segment 2: Willow Substation to 

SunZia South Substation (Segment 2a 

in Arizona, Segment 2b in New 

Mexico) 

• Segment 3: SunZia South Substation 

to New Mexico Institute of Mining 

and Technology (NM Tech) 

• Segment 4: NM Tech to SunZia East 

Substation 

Prior environmental documents 

include a Final EIS in 2013 and a 

Record of Decision and a subsequent 

Environmental Assessment and Finding 

of No New Significant Impact in 2015 to 

accommodate burial of approximately 5 

miles of the transmission line in three 

locations in the vicinity of White Sands 

Missile Range. The BLM issued a rightof-way (ROW) grant to SunZia in 2016, 

authorizing use of a 400-foot-wide 

corridor across 183 miles of Federal 

lands administered by the BLM. 

Construction of the lines has not begun. 

SunZia is proposing to amend the 

existing grant in four components: 

• Component 1—Localized Route 

Modifications: Five route modifications 

in New Mexico in Segments 2 and 3. 

These five modifications involve BLMadministered land (an increase in route 

length of approximately 0.8 miles and 

an additional approximate 38.8 acres). 

Proposed modifications on non-BLMadministered land involve an increase 

in route length of approximately 0.8 

miles and an additional approximate 

38.9 acres. These modifications are 

being proposed to address a range of 

issues, including challenges in 

obtaining a private landowner ROW or 

easement and topography. 

• Component 2—Access Roads and 

Temporary Work Areas Outside the 

Granted ROW: Adding a ROW for about 

761 miles of existing and new access 

roads, of which approximately 708.8 

miles would be permanent, 52.2 miles 

would be temporary, and approximately 

739.8 acres of temporary work areas that 

fall outside the permitted 400-foot-wide 

corridor across both States. About 216.5 

miles of access roads are on BLMadministered land (172.3 in New 

Mexico; 44.2 in Arizona). About 157.7 

acres of temporary work areas are 

located on BLM-administered land in 

New Mexico and 22.6 in Arizona. 

• Component 3—Segment 4 Reroute: 

A reroute of Segment 4 to accommodate 

ongoing concerns of White Sands 

Missile Range, take advantage of an 

opportunity to partially parallel the 

Western Spirit 345 kV Transmission 

Project, and move the eastern substation 

closer to proposed wind-generation 

projects. The total length of the 

currently permitted Segment 4 route is 

91.7 miles, of which 20.2 miles are 

Federal land administered by the BLM. 

SunZia is considering three alternative 

routes. Common to all three alternatives 

are approximately the first 65 miles, 

from the SunZia East Substation to 

where the alternative routes diverge. 

These 65 miles would cross BLM 

(approximately 0.2 mile), State, and 

private lands, 33 miles of which are 

parallel to the proposed Western Spirit 

345 kV Transmission Project. The three 

alternative routes (including the initial 

65 miles) are: 

Æ Alternative Route 1: options 

ranging from 151.8 to 153.9 miles, 

would cross approximately 28.1 to 31.5 

miles of BLM-administered land and 

approximately 4.7 miles across the 

Cibola National Forest administered by 

the FS. 

Æ Alternative Route 2: options 

ranging from 114.9 to 121.5 miles, 

would cross approximately 5.9 miles of 

BLM-administered land and 14.2 miles 

across the Sevilleta National Wildlife 

Refuge administered by the FWS. 

Æ Alternative Route 3: options 

ranging from 118.1 to 125.9 miles, 

would cross 9 to 9.6 miles of BLMadministered land and approximately 

11.6 miles across the Sevilleta National 

Wildlife Refuge administered by the 

FWS. 

Additionally, the BLM may consider 

and analyze in detail additional route 

alternatives through the NEPA process 

other than those requested by SunZia. 

• Component 4—SunZia West 

Substation: A substation to convert 

power from DC to AC. SunZia intends 

for one of the two proposed SunZia 

transmission lines to be AC and the 

other transmission line to be either AC 

or DC. The DC line would require 

equipment at each terminus to convert 

the power from AC to DC (SunZia East 

HVDC converter) and from DC to AC 

(SunZia West HVDC converter). The 

SunZia West Substation is being sited 

along the permitted SunZia ROW on 

approximately 80.7 acres of Arizona 

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State land just east of Red Rock, Arizona 

(no Federal ROW is needed). 

SunZia states the width of the 

permanent ROW for the transmission 

lines typically is a minimum of 400 feet 

on BLM-administered lands but may be 

up to 1,000 feet wide in areas with 

terrain constraints. 

Summary of Expected Impacts 

Impacts from the proposed action 

would include ground disturbanceassociated impacts to natural and 

cultural resources; visual impacts; 

potential impacts to threatened and 

endangered species at the Rio Grande 

River crossing, including the 

Southwestern Willow Flycatcher, 

Yellow-Billed Cuckoo, and the Silvery 

Minnow; and socioeconomic effects 

from construction, operation, and 

maintenance. If an alternative reroute is 

selected, Federal agencies may need to 

amend land use plans. The disciplines 

to be represented and used to prepare 

the EIS include, but are not limited to: 

• Land use and recreation; 

• Visual resources; 

• Wilderness, wilderness study areas, 

lands with wilderness characteristics, 

and FS designated roadless areas; 

• Vegetation/riparian/noxious and 

invasive weeds/special status plant 

species, including Threatened and 

Endangered Species and their habitat; 

• General and special-status wildlife 

species, including Threatened and 

Endangered Species and their habitat; 

• Earth resources (geology, minerals, 

and soils); 

• Water resources; 

• Air quality; 

• Cultural resources; 

• Social and economic conditions; 

• Health and safety/hazardous 

materials; 

• Paleontological resources; 

• Special designations; and 

• Wildland fire ecology and 

management. 

Anticipated Permits and Authorizations 

If approved, the BLM would issue a 

ROW Grant and Temporary Use Permit 

for Federal lands. Any alternative 

reroute selected that would cross the 

Cibola National Forest or the Sevilleta 

National Wildlife Refuge would require 

permit approval from the FS and FWS, 

respectively. 

Public Scoping Process 

The BLM will initiate a 30-day 

scoping period beginning with the 

publication of this Notice of Intent 

(NOI). The BLM will hold a series of 

public scoping meetings to begin 

approximately 15 days after issuance of 

the NOI. 

The BLM will utilize and coordinate 

the NEPA scoping process to help fulfill 

the public involvement process under 

the National Historic Preservation Act 

(54 U.S.C. 306108) as provided in 36 

CFR 800.2(d)(3). The information about 

historic and cultural resources within 

the area potentially affected by the 

proposed action will assist the BLM in 

identifying and evaluating impacts to 

such resources. 

The BLM will continue to consult 

with Native American tribes on a 

government-to-government basis in 

accordance with Executive Order 13175 

and other policies. Tribal concerns, 

including impacts on Indian trust assets 

and potential impacts to cultural 

resources, will be given due 

consideration. 

Federal, State, and local agencies, 

along with Tribes and other 

stakeholders that may be interested in or 

affected by the proposed Project that the 

BLM is evaluating are invited to 

participate in the scoping process and, 

if eligible, may request, or be requested 

by the BLM, to participate in the 

development of the environmental 

analysis as a cooperating agency. 

Authorization of this proposal may 

require amendments to the Socorro 

Field Office Resource Management Plan, 

the Las Cruces District Mimbres 

Resource Management Plan, the 

Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge 

Comprehensive Conservation Plan, and 

the Cibola National Forest Land and 

Resource Management Plan. By this 

notice, the BLM is complying with 

requirements 43 CFR 1610.2(c) to notify 

the public of potential plan 

amendments. The BLM will integrate 

the land use planning process with the 

NEPA analysis process for this project. 

A Forest plan amendment may be 

required for this project. The 2012 

Planning Rule (36 CFR part 219) 

requires consideration of the applicable 

substantive requirements as described 

in 36 CFR 219.8 through 219.11 that are 

directly related to the plan direction 

being added, modified, or removed by 

the amendment (36 CFR 219.13). 

Request for Identification of Potential 

Alternatives, Information, Analyses, 

and Mitigation Measures Relevant to 

the Proposed Action 

The BLM encourages comments 

concerning the proposed SunZia 

Southwest Transmission Project, 

feasible alternatives, possible measures 

to mitigate, minimize and/or avoid 

adverse environmental impacts, and any 

other information relevant to the 

proposed action. You may submit 

comments at any time by using one of 

the methods listed in the ADDRESSES

section of this Notice. Public scoping 

meetings will be conducted virtually 

with BLM staff to explain project details 

and gather information from interested 

individuals or groups. Representatives 

from SunZia will be available to answer 

questions. You should submit 

comments by the close of the 30-day 

scoping period or 10 days after the last 

public meeting. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware 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 your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. Any persons wishing to be added 

to a mailing list of interested parties can 

call or write to the BLM, as described in 

this Notice. Additional information 

meetings may be conducted throughout 

the process to keep the public informed 

of the progress of the EIS. (Authority: 40 

CFR 1501.7 and 43 CFR 1610.2) 

Steven R. Wells, 

Acting New Mexico State Director. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–FB–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No.: BOEM–2021–0029] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Revolution Wind LLC’s Proposed Wind 

Energy Facility Offshore Rhode Island; 

Reopening of Comment Period and 

Corrections 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; reopening of comment 

period and corrections. 

SUMMARY: On April 30, 2021, the Bureau 

of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) 

published the ‘‘Notice of Intent to 

Prepare an [EIS] for Revolution Wind 

LLC’s Proposed Wind Energy Facility 

Offshore Rhode Island’’ in the Federal 

Register. The NOI announced that 

BOEM will prepare an EIS as part of its 

review of a construction and operations 

plan submitted by Revolution Wind LLC 

and provided project information. The 

notice stated that comments received by 

June 1, 2021, will be considered. This 

notice corrects two statements in the 

NOI regarding the energy capacity of the 

proposed wind facility and its distance