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construct a concentrated solar thermal 

power plant facility approximately 14 

miles west of El Centro, CA, in Imperial 

County. The project site is just south of 

Plaster City between the Union Pacific 

Railroad tracks and the Interstate 8 

highway. The facility is expected to 

operate for approximately 30 years. The 

proposed project would utilize 

SunCatcher technology, consisting of 

approximately 30,000 25-kilowatt solar 

power dishes with a generating capacity 

of approximately 750 megawatts (MW) 

to be built in two phases. The first phase 

would consist up to 12,000 SunCathers 

configured in 200 1.5 MW solar groups 

of 60 SunCatchers per group and have 

a net nominal generating capacity of 300 

MW. The second phase would consist of 

approximately 18,000 SunCatchers 

configured in 500 1.5 MW groups with 

a net generating capacity of 450 MW. 

Each SunCatcher system consists of an 

approximate 38-foot high by 40-foot 

wide solar concentrator dish that 

supports an array of curved glass mirror 

facets designed to automatically track 

the sun and focus solar energy onto a 

Power Conversion Unit which generates 

electricity. Related structures would 

include a main services complex, 

assembly buildings, a 230-kilovolts (kV) 

electrical substation, a 10-mile 

transmission line, access roads, supply 

water line, and a 10-mile double circuit 

230kV transmission line from the 

project site to San Diego Gas and 

Electric’s existing Imperial Valley 

electrical substation interconnecting the 

project to the existing 500 kV 

transmission system. The 450–MW 

Phase II is dependent on the approval of 

the proposed Sunrise Powerlink 500kV 

transmission line that would also 

interconnect with the Imperial Valley 

electrical substation. The EIS/SA will 

analyze the site-specific impacts on air 

quality, biological resources, cultural 

resources, water resources, geological 

resources and hazards, hazardous 

materials handling, land use, noise, 

paleontological resources, public health, 

socioeconomics, soils, traffic and 

transportation, visual resources, waste 

management and worker safety and fire 

protection, as well as facility design 

engineering, efficiency, reliability, 

transmission system engineering and 

transmission line safety and nuisance. 

The CDCA Plan, while recognizing the 

potential compatibility of solar 

generation facilities on public lands, 

requires that all sites associated with 

power generation or transmission not 

identified in the Plan will be considered 

through the Plan Amendment process. 

The following Planning Criteria will 

be utilized during the plan amendment 

process: 

• The plan amendment process will 

be completed in compliance with 

FLPMA, NEPA, and all other relevant 

Federal law, Executive orders, and 

management policies of the BLM; 

• The plan amendment process will 

include an EIS that will comply with 

NEPA standards; 

• Where existing planning decisions 

are still valid, those decisions may 

remain unchanged and be incorporated 

into the new plan amendment; 

• The plan amendment will recognize 

valid existing rights; 

• Native American Tribal 

consultations will be conducted in 

accordance with policy and Tribal 

concerns will be given due 

consideration. The plan amendment 

process will include the consideration 

of any impacts on Indian trust assets; 

• Consultation with the SHPO will be 

conducted throughout the plan 

amendment process; and 

• Consultation with USFWS will be 

conducted throughout the plan 

amendment process. 

If the ROW and proposed land use 

plan amendment are approved by BLM, 

the concentrated solar thermal power 

plant facility on public lands would be 

authorized in accordance with Title V of 

the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976 and the 

Federal Regulations at 43 CFR part 

2800. 

A certificate designating approval of 

the Energy Commission must be 

obtained by SES before it may construct 

a power plant and/or electric 

transmission line and related facilities. 

Dated: October 10, 2008. 

Thomas Pogacnik, 

Deputy State Director, Natural Resources 

(CA–930), California State Office. 

[FR Doc. E8–24685 Filed 10–16–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–40–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[WY–060–1320–EL, WY–060–5110–GA– 

CK33, WY–060–5110–GA–CK36, WY–060– 

5110–GA–CK35, WYW161248, WYW172585, 

WYW172657, WYW173360] 

Notice of Availability and Notice of 

Hearing for the South Gillette Area 

Coal Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement That Includes Four Federal 

Coal Lease by Applications, Wyoming 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and 

the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA, 43 

U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) has prepared a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

for the South Gillette Area Coal project 

that contains four Federal Coal Lease By 

Applications (LBAs), and by this Notice 

is announcing a public hearing 

requesting comments on the DEIS, 

Maximum Economic Recovery (MER), 

and Fair Market Value (FMV) pursuant 

to 43 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 

3425.4. 

DATES: To ensure comments will be 

considered, the BLM must receive 

written comments on the South Gillette 

Area Coal DEIS, MER, and FMV within 

60 days following the date the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes the Notice of Availability in 

the Federal Register. The public hearing 

will be held at 7 p.m. MST, on 

November 19, 2008, at the Campbell 

County George Amos Memorial 

Building, 412 South Gillette Avenue, 

Gillette, Wyoming. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• E-mail: casper_wymail@blm.gov. 

• Fax: 307–261–7587. 

• Mail: Casper Field Office, Bureau of 

Land Management, Attn: Teresa 

Johnson, 2987 Prospector Drive, Casper, 

Wyoming 82604. 

Copies of the DEIS are available at the 

following BLM office locations: BLM 

Wyoming State Office, 5353 

Yellowstone Road, Cheyenne, Wyoming 

82009; and BLM Casper Field Office, 

2987 Prospector Lane, Casper, Wyoming 

82604. The DEIS is available 

electronically on the following Web site: 

http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/info/ 

NEPA/cfodocs/south_gillette.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Teresa Johnson or Mike Karbs at the 

above address, or telephone: 307–261– 

7600. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DEIS 

analyzes the potential impacts for 

Federal Coal LBAs serialized as 

WYW161248, WYW172585, 

WYW172657, and WYW173360 and 

referred to as the Belle Ayr North, West 

Coal Creek, Caballo West, and Maysdorf 

II tracts, in the decertified Powder River 

Federal Coal Production Region, 

Wyoming. The BLM is considering 

issuing these four coal leases as a result 

of four applications filed between July 

of 2004 and September of 2006. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION by 

application is as follows. 


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Belle Ayr North Coal Tract 

The BLM is considering issuing a coal 

lease as a result of a July 6, 2004, 

application made by RAG Wyoming 

Land Company (RAG) to lease the 

Federal coal in the Belle Ayr North coal 

tract (WYW161248). RAG subsequently 

sold the Belle Ayr Mine and its 

associated interests to Foundation Coal 

Holdings, Inc. (Foundation). From this 

point forward, the applicant for the 

Belle Ayr North Tract will be referred to 

as Foundation. The Belle Ayr North 

LBA is located in Campbell County 

Wyoming, east of Hwy 59 and south of 

the Bishop Road/Hwy 59 intersection. 

Foundation originally applied for the 

tract to extend the life of the existing 

Belle Ayr Mine in accordance with 43 

CFR part 3425. The applicant estimated 

that the tract includes approximately 

200 million tons of in-place Federal coal 

underlying the following lands in 

Campbell County, Wyoming: 

T. 48 N., R. 71 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 18: Lots 17, 18, 19 (W1⁄2, SE1⁄4); 

Section 19: Lots 5 through 19; 

Section 20: Lots 3 (SW1⁄4), 4 (W1⁄2, SE1⁄4), 

5, 6, 7 (S1⁄2), 9 (S1⁄2), 10 through 16; 

Section 21: Lots 13, 14; 

Section 28: Lots 3 through 6; 

Section 29: Lots 1, 6; 

T. 48 N., R.72 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 24: Lots 1, 8. 

Containing 1,578.74 acres, more or less. 

The Belle Ayr Mine is adjacent to the 

LBA and has an approved mining and 

reclamation plan from the Land Quality 

Division of the Wyoming Department of 

Environmental Quality (DEQ) and an 

approved air quality permit from the Air 

Quality Division of the Wyoming DEQ 

that allows them to mine up to 45 

million tons of coal per year. 

West Coal Creek Coal Tract 

The BLM is considering issuing a coal 

lease as a result of a February 10, 2006, 

application made by Ark Land Company 

(Ark) to lease the Federal coal in the 

West Coal Creek coal tract 

(WYW172585). The West Coal Creek 

LBA is located in Campbell County east 

of Hoadley Road approximately 12 

miles northeast of the city of Wright, 

Wyoming. 

Ark originally applied for the tract to 

extend the life of the existing Coal Creek 

Mine in accordance with 43 CFR part 

3425. The applicant estimated that the 

tract includes approximately 57 million 

tons of recoverable Federal coal 

underlying the following lands in 

Campbell County, Wyoming: 

T. 46 N., R. 70 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 18: Lots 14 through 17; 

Section 19: Lots 7 through 10, 15 through 

18; 

Section 30: Lots 5 through 20. 

Containing 1,151.26 acres, more or less. 

The Coal Creek Mine is adjacent to 

the LBA and has an approved mining 

and reclamation plan from the Land 

Quality Division of the Wyoming DEQ 

and an approved air quality permit from 

the Air Quality Division of the 

Wyoming DEQ that allows them to mine 

up to 25 million tons of coal per year. 

Caballo West Coal Tract 

The BLM is considering issuing a coal 

lease as a result of a March 15, 2006, 

application made by Caballo Coal 

Company (Caballo) to lease the Federal 

coal in the Caballo West coal tract 

(WYW172657). The Caballo West LBA 

is located in Campbell County Wyoming 

east of the Hwy 59/Bishop Road 

intersection. 

Caballo originally applied for the tract 

to extend the life of the existing Caballo 

Mine in accordance with 43 CFR part 

3425. The applicant estimated that the 

tract includes approximately 87.5 

million tons of mineable Federal coal 

underlying the following lands in 

Campbell County, Wyoming: 

T. 48 N., R. 71 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 7: Lots 12, 19; 

Section 8: Lot 10; 

Section 17: Lots 1 through 10, 11 (N1⁄2, 

SE1⁄4), 12 (NE1⁄4), 15 (N1⁄2, SE1⁄4), 16; 

Section 18: Lot 5, 12 (NE1⁄4); 

Section 20: Lots 1, 2 (NE1⁄4), 8 (N1⁄2, SE1⁄4). 

Containing 777.485 acres, more or less. 

The Caballo Mine is adjacent to the 

LBA and has an approved mining and 

reclamation plan from the Land Quality 

Division of the Wyoming DEQ and an 

approved air quality permit from the Air 

Quality Division of the Wyoming DEQ 

that allows them to mine up to 50 

million tons of coal per year. 

Maysdorf II Coal Tract 

The BLM is considering issuing a coal 

lease as a result of a September 1, 2006, 

application made by Cordero Mining 

Company (Cordero) to lease the Federal 

coal in the Maysdorf II coal tract 

(WYW173360). The Maysdorf II LBA is 

located in Campbell County Wyoming 

on the east side of Hwy 59 starting 

approximately 5 miles south of the 

Bishop Road Hwy 59 intersection. The 

Maysdorf II LBA has 2 separate units. 

The larger of the 2 units is against the 

west edge of the Cordero-Rojo Mine. 

The other unit is to the south of the 

Cordero-Rojo mine and to the west of 

the Coal Creek Mine by roughly 1 mile. 

Cordero originally applied for the 

tract to extend the life of the existing 

Cordero-Rojo Mine in accordance with 

43 CFR part 3425. The applicant 

estimated that the tract includes 

approximately 483 million tons of inplace Federal coal underlying the 

following lands in Campbell County, 

Wyoming: 

T. 46 N., R. 71 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 4: Lots 8, 9, 16, 17; 

Section 5: Lots 5, 12, 13, 20; 

Section 9: Lots 6 through 8; 

Section 10: Lots 7 through 10; 

Section 11: Lots 13 through 16; 

Section 14: Lots 1 through 4; 

Section 15: Lots 1 through 4; 

T. 47 N., R. 71 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 7: Lots 6 through 11, 14 through 

19; 

Section 17: Lots 1 through 15, SW1⁄4NW1⁄4; 

Section 18: Lots 5 through 14, 19, 20; 

Section 20: Lots 1, 8, 9, 16; 

Section 21: Lots 4, 5, 12, 13; 

Section 28: Lots 4, 5, 12, 13; 

Section 29: Lots 1, 8, 9, 16; 

Section 32: Lots 1, 8, 9, 16; 

Section 33: Lots 4, 5, 12, 13; 

T. 47 N., R. 72 W., 6th PM, Wyoming 

Section 12: Lots 1 through 16; 

Section 13: Lots 1 through 8. 

Containing 4,653.80 acres, more or less. 

The Cordero-Rojo Mine is adjacent to 

the LBA and has an approved mining 

and reclamation plan from the Land 

Quality Division of the Wyoming DEQ 

and an approved air quality permit from 

the Air Quality Division of the 

Wyoming DEQ that allows them to mine 

up to 65 million tons of coal per year. 

The DEIS analyzes and discloses to 

the public direct, indirect, and 

cumulative environmental impacts of 

issuing four Federal coal leases in the 

Wyoming portion of the Powder River 

Basin. A copy of the DEIS has been sent 

to affected Federal, State, and local 

government agencies; persons and 

entities identified as potentially being 

affected by a decision to lease the 

Federal coal in each of the tracts; and 

persons who indicated to the BLM that 

they wished to receive a copy of the 

DEIS. The purpose of the public hearing 

is to solicit comments on the DEIS, on 

the proposed competitive sales of the 

Belle Ayr North, West Coal Creek, 

Caballo West, and Maysdorf II coal 

tracts, and on the FMV and MER of the 

Federal coal. 

The Wyoming DEQ; the Office of 

Surface Mining Reclamation and 

Enforcement; and the Wyoming 

Department of Transportation are 

cooperating agencies in the preparation 

of the DEIS. 

The DEIS analyzes leasing all of the 

South Gillette Area coal tracts as the 

Proposed Action. Under the Proposed 

Action, a competitive sale would be 

held and a lease issued for Federal coal 

contained in the tracts as applied for by 

each of the applicants. As part of the 

coal leasing process, the BLM is 

evaluating adding Federal coal to the 

tracts to avoid bypassing coal or to 


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prompt competitive interest in unleased 

Federal coal in this area. The alternate 

tract configurations for each of the LBAs 

that BLM is evaluating are described 

and analyzed as separate alternatives in 

the DEIS. Under these alternatives, 

competitive sales would be held and 

leases issued for Federal coal lands 

included in tracts modified by the BLM. 

The DEIS also analyzes the alternative 

of rejecting the application(s) to lease 

Federal coal as the No Action 

Alternative. The Proposed Actions and 

alternatives for each of the LBAs being 

considered in the DEIS are in 

conformance with the Approved 

Resource Management Plan for Public 

Lands Administered by the Bureau of 

Land Management Buffalo Field Office 

(2001). 

Requests to be included on the 

mailing list for this project and to 

request copies of the DEIS or 

notification of the comment period or 

hearing date, or both, may be sent in 

writing, by facsimile, or electronically to 

the addresses previously stated at the 

beginning of this notice. The BLM asks 

that those submitting comments on the 

DEIS make them as specific as possible 

with reference to page numbers and 

chapters of the document. Comments 

that contain only opinions or 

preferences will not receive a formal 

response; however, they will be 

considered as part of the BLM decisionmaking process. 

Please note that comments and 

information submitted including names, 

street addresses, and e-mail addresses of 

respondents will be available for public 

review and disclosure at the above 

address during regular business hours 

(7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), Monday 

through Friday, except holidays. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail 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. 

Donald A. Simpson, 

Acting State Director. 

[FR Doc. E8–24632 Filed 10–16–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[OR–930–6350–DQ–047H] HAG–08–0204 

Notice of Availability of the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Revision of the Resource 

Management Plans of the Western 

Oregon Bureau of Land Management 

Districts of Salem, Eugene, Roseburg, 

Coos Bay, and Medford, and the 

Klamath Falls Resource Area of the 

Lakeview District 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 and the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976, the Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) has prepared 

six Resource Management Plans with a 

single associated Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (RMP/FEIS) for the 

Salem, Eugene, Roseburg, Coos Bay, and 

Medford Districts and the Klamath Falls 

Resource Area of the Lakeview District 

in western Oregon. 

DATES: The Assistant Secretary of the 

Interior for Land and Minerals 

Management is the responsible official 

for the RMP. Accordingly, there will be 

no administrative review ‘‘protest’’ on 

the RMP/FEIS under 43 CFR 1610.5–2. 

The Record of Decision (ROD) will not 

be signed until at least 30 days after the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

publishes this notice of availability of 

the Final EIS in the Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the RMP/FEIS 

have been sent to affected federal, state, 

and local government agencies, and to 

tribal governments. Interested persons 

may review the RMP/FEIS on the 

Internet at http://www.blm.gov/or/ 

plans/wopr/index.php. Copies of the 

RMP/FEIS are available for public 

inspection at Salem, Eugene, Roseburg, 

Coos Bay, and Medford District offices 

and the Grants Pass, Klamath Falls and 

Tillamook Resource Area offices. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: 

Jerry Hubbard, Western Oregon Plan 

Revisions Public Outreach Coordinator; 

at (503) 808–6115. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM 

has analyzed revision of six Resource 

Management Plans with this single 

Environmental Impact Statement. These 

plans are the Salem, Eugene, Roseburg, 

Medford, and Coos Bay District RMPs 

and the Klamath Falls Resource Area 

RMP. The RMP/FEIS for the Western 

Oregon Bureau of Land Management 

Districts has identified and analyzed 

four action alternatives, including the 

RMP, for managing approximately 

2,550,000 acres of federal land, most of 

which are revested Oregon and 

California Railroad Grant and Coos Bay 

Wagon Road Grant lands, within the 

western Oregon planning area. 

The major resource management plan 

issues include: 

• Providing a sustainable supply of 

wood and other forest products, as 

mandated by the Oregon & California 

Lands Act of 1937, while also meeting 

other applicable laws. 

• Providing for conservation of 

species listed under the Endangered 

Species Act. 

• Contributing to meeting the goals of 

the Clean Water Act and the Safe 

Drinking Water Act. 

• Reducing the risk of wildfire and 

integrating fire back into the ecosystem. 

Comments received on the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

were important in shaping the Resource 

Management Plans. The RMP is based 

on Alternative 2 from the DEIS, but 

includes portions of the other 

alternatives in the DEIS. 

Some of the key changes include: 

• Wider riparian management areas, 

as described in Alternative 1 of the 

DEIS. 

• Late successional management 

areas were reconfigured to match the 

Final Northern Spotted Owl Recovery 

Plan. 

• Deferring harvest for 15 years in 

‘‘older and more structurally complex 

multi-layered conifer stands,’’ as 

described in Final Northern Spotted 

Owl Recovery Plan in the timber 

management area. 

• Using uneven-aged management, as 

described in Alternative 3 of the DEIS, 

in the southern portion of the Medford 

District and the Klamath Falls Resource 

Area to decrease fire hazard and 

increase fire resiliency. 

Dated: September 8, 2008. 

Edward W. Shepard, 

State Director, Oregon/Washington, Bureau 

of Land Management. 

[FR Doc. E8–24655 Filed 10–16–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–33–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation 332–325] 

The Economic Effects of Significant 

U.S. Import Restraints: Sixth Update 

AGENCY: United States International 

Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of sixth update report 

and scheduling of public hearing. 


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