Final supplemental environmental impact statement and proposed land use plan amendments for segments 8 and 9 of the Gateway West 500-kV Transmission Line Project, Idaho
By: lead agency : Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior
Contributors: Stobaugh, Jim; United States. Bureau of Land Management; United States. Bureau of Land Management. Idaho State Office; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Division of Ecological Services; United States. National Park Service. National Trails Intermountain Region; United States. National Park Service. Pacific West Region; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers; Idaho State Historical Society. State Historic Preservation Office; Idaho. Department of Fish and Game; Idaho Office of Energy Resources; Kuna (Idaho); Twin Falls County (Idaho)
Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Published: 2016
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2200
Subjects: Right of way; Public lands; Management; Electric power transmission; Environmental aspects; Planning; Gateway West Transmission Line Project; Overhead electric lines; Land use
Other titles: Gateway West final SEIS and proposed land use plan amendments for segments 8 and 9, Idaho; Draft supplemental impact statement for segments 8 and 9 of the Gateway West Transmission Line Project.
Description: On May 7, 2007, Idaho Power Company and PacifiCorp (doing business as Rocky Mountain Power), collectively known as the Proponents, applied to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a right-of-way (ROW) grant to use the National System of Public Lands for portions of the Gateway West Transmission Line Project (Gateway West or Project). The original application was revised in October 2007, August 2008, May 2009, January 2010, and August 2014 to reflect changes and refinements in their proposed Project and in response to feedback from the public regarding routing alternatives. The Plan of Development (POD) has been revised several times in response to Project changes and recommendations from the BLM, other reviewing agencies, and public comment. This supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) evaluates the revised proposed action for Segments 8 and 9 as stated in the application including environmental protection measures. It also examines the environmental impacts of four other route alignments and four variations. Significant impacts were identified from construction and operations of the transmission line on historical resources (historic trails), visual quality, and cumulative impacts on several resources based on past and present levels of disturbance. A framework for compensatory mitigation has been developed.
Notes: "Cooperating agencies : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Ecological Services Division) ; National Park Service (National Trails Office, Pacific West Region, Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument) ; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ; Idaho State Historic Preservation Office ; Idaho Department of Fish and Game ; the Idaho Governor's Office of Energy Resources ; City of Kuna ; Twin Falls County, Idaho"--Abstract page [unnumbered], volume 1.

"Responsible officials : Tim Murphy, BLM Idaho, State Director ; Project manager : Jim Stobaugh"--Abstract page [unnumbered], volume 1.

"October 2016"--Cover.

"BLM/ID/PL-15/100."

Volume 3 is large format and measures 28 x 44 cm.

Compact disc, located in front pocket of volume 1, contains all chapters and appendices.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 7-1-7-21) and index.

Also available online via EPA website (viewed March 15, 2017).  Note: Downloads to individual chapters and appendices are under the heading "3. FSEIS."
Table of contents: title: Volume 1 : Chapters 1 through 7; title: volume 2 : Appendices B, C, F G, H, I, J, K, and M; title: volume 3 : Large format appendices (appendices A, D, E, and L); title: CD : Volumes 1-3.