[Federal Register: July 19, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 138)]
[Notices]
[Page 41042-41043]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[NV-040-5101-ER-F345; N-78803]
Notice to Reopen the Public Scoping Process for the Proposed
Clark, Lincoln, and White Pine Counties Groundwater Development Project
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice to Reopen Scoping.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Bureau of Land Management,
Nevada State Office, will reopen the public scoping period for the
proposed Clark, Lincoln and White Pine Counties Groundwater Development
to provide opportunity for comment on substantive project changes. The
additional public scoping input will be used to prepare the Draft EIS.
A notice of intent to prepare and EIS was published in the Federal
Register on April 8, 2005, 70 FR 18043-18044.
DATES: The scoping public comment period will commence with the
publication of this notice, and will end 60 days after its publication.
Comments on the scope of the EIS, including concerns, issues, or
proposed alternatives that should be considered in the EIS should be
submitted in writing to the address below and will be accepted
throughout the scoping period. The reopening scoping notice will be
distributed to those who commented during the original scoping period
April-August 2005. This distribution will occur by mail on or about the
date of this notice. Information concerning the reopening of scoping
will also appear on the Nevada BLM Web site at http://www.nv.blm.gov. No
additional public scoping meetings are planned.
ADDRESSES: Please mail written comments to the BLM Nevada State Office,
1340 Financial Boulevard, P.O. Box 12000, Reno, Nevada 89520-0006. FAX:
775-861-6689. Comments submitted during this EIS process, including
names and street addresses of respondents will be available for public
review at the Nevada State Office during regular business hours 7:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. Individual
respondents may request confidentiality. If you wish to withhold your
name and address from public review or disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act, you must state this prominently at the beginning of
your comments. Such requests will be honored to the extent allowed by
law. All submissions from organizations or businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, will be made available for public
inspection in their entirety.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information or to have
your name added to the EIS mailing list, contact Penny Woods at the
Nevada State Office (see address above), telephone 775-861-6466.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The proposed Clark, Lincoln, and White Pine
Counties Groundwater Development Project (GWD) is proposed by the
Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) and would be located in central
and eastern Nevada in Clark, Lincoln, and White Pine Counties. The
proposed project would develop and convey existing and proposed
groundwater under rights authorized by the Nevada Division of Water
Resources (Office of the State Engineer) to the Southern Nevada Water
Authority and the Lincoln County Water District (LCWD).
The following are the substantive project changes that have
resulted in the BLM decision to reopen public scoping:
1. In January 2006, SNWA and the LCWD completed an agreement under
which the SNWA would convey existing LCWD groundwater rights from
Spring and Lake Valleys in the SNWA pipeline system. It is anticipated
that SNWA would convey approximately 36,000 acre feet per year for the
LCWD. The total volume that could be conveyed by the entire system
would be about 200,000 acre feet per year.
2. The SNWA has withdrawn its proposal to develop groundwater from
the Tikaboo Valley North Basin, as well as to construct the associated
pipeline that would interconnect with the proposed mainline pipeline
system.
All other aspects described in the notice of intent published in
the Federal Register on April 8, 2005, 70 FR 18043-18044, remain the
same.
A map of the proposed project is available for viewing at the
Bureau of Land Management State Office at 1340 Financial Boulevard,
Reno, Nevada, and
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the Ely Field Office, 702 North Industrial Way, Ely NV.
Amy Lueders,
Associate State Director.
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