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generating project on this site. The 

Approved PA revises the CDCA Plan to 

allow for the development of the 

Lucerne Valley Solar Project on 422 

acres of land managed by the BLM with 

other ancillary structures and facilities. 

The selected alternative (up to 45 MW 

of generated power) is a combination of 

Alternative 3, the Proposed Action, and 

Alternative 4, Modified Site Layout. 

This combination of alternatives 

includes all of the features in 

Alternative 4, with the exception of 

rerouting some of the surface water 

drainage to provide additional water to 

the vegetative screen area. The surface 

water would follow the natural 

pathways as identified in Alternative 3. 

The Final Environmental Impact 

Statement/Proposed PA was published 

in the Federal Register on August 13, 

2010 (75 FR 49515), initiating a 30-day 

protest period and concurrent 30-day 

comment period. 

Two comment letters and one protest 

letter were received, considered, and 

incorporated as appropriate into the 

ROD/Approved PA. Public comments 

and protests did not significantly 

change the decisions in the ROD/ 

Approved PA. The State of California 

Governor’s consistency review did not 

identify any inconsistencies between 

the proposed project and state and local 

plans, policies or programs. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6. 

Robert V. Abbey, 

Director, Bureau of Land Management. 

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Notice of Availability of the Record of 

Decision for the Imperial Valley Solar 

Project and Associated Amendment to 

the California Desert Conservation 

Area Resource Management PlanAmendment, Imperial County, 

California 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) announces the 

availability of the Record of Decision 

(ROD)/Approved Amendment to the 

California Desert Conservation Area 

(CDCA) Plan (the applicable Resource 

Management Plan (RMP) for the project 

site and the surrounding areas) located 

in the California Desert District. The 

Secretary of the Interior approved the 

ROD on October 5, 2010, which 

constitutes the final decision of the 

Department and makes the Approved 

Amendment to the CDCA Plan effective 

immediately. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the ROD/ 

Approved Amendment to the CDCA 

Plan are available upon request from the 

Field Manager, El Centro Field Office, 

Bureau of Land Management, 1661 S. 

4th Street, El Centro, California, 92243 

or via the internet at the following Web 

site: http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/ 

elcentro/nepa/stirling.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

Stobaugh, BLM Project Manager; 

telephone: (775) 861–6478; mailing 

address: Bureau of Land Management, 

P.O. Box 12000, Reno, Nevada 89520; or 

e-mail at Jim_Stobaugh@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Stirling 

Energy Systems (SES) filed right-of-way 

(ROW) application CACA–47740 for the 

proposed SES Solar Two Project. After 

merging with Tessera Solar, the 

applicant changed its name to Imperial 

Valley Solar, LLC, and changed the 

name of the project to the Imperial 

Valley Solar LLC (IVS) project. The IVS 

project is a concentrated solar electrical 

generating facility using the proprietary 

SunCatcher technology and facilities. 

The IVS project site is proposed on 

approximately 6,360 acres of BLMmanaged lands in Imperial County, 

California, approximately 4 miles east of 

the community of Ocotillo, and 14 miles 

west of the City of El Centro. In addition 

to the SunCatcher fields site, the project 

includes an 230 kilovolt electrical 

transmission line that encumbers 

approximately 93 acres of public lands 

from the site to an off-site existing San 

Diego Gas and Electric substation, a 

water supply pipeline that encumbers 

approximately 4 acres of public lands 

from an off-site water treatment plant to 

the project site, and a new 230 kilovolt 

substation, a main services complex, 

with other ancillary structures and 

facilities within the project site. 

The project site is in the California 

Desert District within the planning 

boundary of the CDCA Plan, which is 

the applicable RMP for the project site 

and the surrounding areas. 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 already 

identified in that Plan be considered 

through the BLM’s land use plan 

amendment process. As a result, prior to 

approval of a ROW grant for the IVS 

project, the BLM must amend the CDCA 

Plan to allow that solar generating 

project on that site. The Approved 

Amendment to the CDCA Plan 

specifically revises the CDCA Plan to 

allow for the development of the IVS 

project on the 6,360 acres of land 

managed by the BLM with other 

ancillary structures and facilities. 

The BLM preferred alternative would 

result in the placement of 

approximately 28,360 SunCatchers on 

the site capable of generating 

approximately 709 megawatts (MW) of 

electricity. The 709 MW Alternative was 

not evaluated in the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS); 

it is a modification of the 750 MW 

project evaluated in the Draft EIS. The 

709 MW Alternative was evaluated in 

the Final EIS. The Notice of Availability 

of the Final EIS for the IVS project and 

the proposed CDCA Plan amendment 

was published in the Federal Register 

on July 28, 2010 (75 FR 44278). 

Publication of the Notice of 

Availability for the Final EIS initiated a 

30-day protest period for the proposed 

amendment to the CDCA Plan. At the 

close of the protest period on August 27, 

2010, 7 timely and complete written 

protests were received and resolved. 

Their resolution is summarized in a 

Protest Resolution Report attached to 

the ROD. The proposed amendment to 

the CDCA Plan was not modified as a 

result of the protest resolution. 

Simultaneous to the protest period, the 

Governor of California conducted a 30- 

day consistency review of the proposed 

CDCA Plan amendment/Final EIS to 

identify any inconsistencies with the 

state or local plan, policies, or programs. 

The California Governor’s office did not 

identify inconsistencies between the 

proposed amendment to the CDCA 

Plan/Final EIS and state or local plan, 

policies, or programs. 

Because this decision is approved by 

the Secretary of the Interior, it is not 

subject to appeal (43 CFR 4.410(a)(3)). 

Therefore, the decision is effective 

immediately. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6. 

Robert V. Abbey, 

Director, Bureau of Land Management. 

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