Notice2025-03224
Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Dry Creek Trona Mine Project, Sweetwater County, Wyoming
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Published
February 28, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentLand Management Bureau
Abstract
In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the Bureau of Land Management announces the availability of the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Dry Creek Trona Mine project in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 39 (Friday, February 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 10939]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03224]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[PO4820000251]
Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact
Statement for the Dry Creek Trona Mine Project, Sweetwater County,
Wyoming
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act
of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the Bureau of Land Management announces
the availability of the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for
the Dry Creek Trona Mine project in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
DATES: The BLM will not issue a decision on the proposal for a minimum
of 30 days after the date that the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) publishes its notice of availability (NOA) in the Federal
Register. The EPA usually publishes its NOAs on Fridays.
ADDRESSES: The final EIS and documents pertinent to this proposal are
available for review on the BLM ePlanning project website at <a href="https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/admin/project/2016395/510">https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/admin/project/2016395/510</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kelly Lamborn, Project Manager,
telephone: (307) 828-4505; address: 430 North Highway 189, Kemmerer, WY
83101; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#86edeae7ebe4e9f4e8c6e4eaeba8e1e9f0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ddb6b1bcb0bfb2afb39dbfb1b0f3bab2ab">[email protected]</span></a>. Individuals in the United States who
are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability may
dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay
services for contacting Ms. Lamborn. Individuals outside the United
States should use the relay services offered within their country to
make international calls to the point-of-contact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The draft EIS provided the analysis of
environmental consequences for the proposed Dry Creek Trona Mine
Project. There were four alternatives considered and analyzed. The BLM
selected Alternative D as the Preferred Alternative. Alternative D
results in a larger project footprint, 7,015 acres. In this
alternative, the development of the well field and mine production
levels remain unchanged from the other alternatives, but the processing
facilities are proposed to be relocated from the mine site area to a
site north of I-80, approximately 8 miles west of Green River, Wyoming
within a designated processing facilities boundary. The water supply
pipeline would be relocated to north of I-80, connecting the processing
facilities to the water intake on the Green River, reducing the impacts
from 24.66 miles to 6.4 miles, eliminating the disturbance through the
U.S. Forest Service Flaming Gorge Recreation Area and the Blacks Fork
Priority Habitat Management Area for Greater Sage-Grouse.
Comments on the draft EIS received from the public and internal BLM
review were considered and incorporated as appropriate into the final
EIS. Public comments resulted in the addition of clarifying text but
did not significantly change proposed decisions.
(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10)
Franklin D. Keeler,
Acting District Manager, BLM High Desert District Office.
[FR Doc. 2025-03224 Filed 2-27-25; 8:45 am]
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