[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 127 (Friday, July 2, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 38539]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-16033]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Notice of Availability of Final Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement Updating Cumulative Effects Analysis for the Newmont Mining
Corporation Leeville Project, Nevada
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of
1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Elko District
Office prepared a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) to update the cumulative effects analysis for Newmont Mining
Corporation's Leeville Project gold mine in Eureka and Elko counties,
Nevada, and by this notice is announcing its availability. The project
was authorized in 2002.
DATES: The BLM will not issue a final decision on the proposal for a
minimum of 30 days after the date that the Environmental Protection
Agency publishes its notice in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Final Supplemental EIS are available for
inspection at the BLM, Elko District Office, 3900 Idaho Street, Elko,
Nevada 89801. Interested persons may also review the Final Supplemental
EIS on the following Elko District Office Web site: http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/elko_field_office.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information contact Deb
McFarlane, (775) 753-0200, or e-mail: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM signed a Record of Decision (ROD)
for Newmont Mining Corporation's Leeville Project, an underground gold
mine located on the Carlin Trend in northeastern Nevada, on September
25, 2002. Four years of legal review resulted in the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit partially reversing the ROD. The
Final Supplemental EIS updates analysis of some cumulative impacts
including potential impacts to air quality, minerals, Native American
and cultural resources, water, vegetation, grazing, recreation, noise,
visual resources, wilderness resources, threatened and endangered
species, and socioeconomics.
The Leeville Project includes three main ore bodies located
approximately 2,500 feet below ground's surface. Newmont Mining
Corporation is authorized to construct ancillary mine facilities,
including construction of five shafts to access the ore bodies, shaft
hoists, a waste rock disposal facility, refractory ore stockpiles,
facilities to support mine dewatering, and facilities to support
backfill operations. Surface disturbance totals 486 acres.
A Notice of Intent to Prepare a Supplemental EIS Updating
Cumulative Effects Analysis for the Newmont Mining Corporation Leeville
Project, Nevada, was published in the Federal Register on March 7, 2007
[72 FR 10241]. The Notice of Availability for the Draft Supplemental
EIS for the Leeville Project was published in the Federal Register on
September 6, 2007 [72 FR 51248].
Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6 and 1506.10.
Kenneth E. Miller,
Elko District Manager.
[FR Doc. 2010-16033 Filed 7-1-10; 8:45 am]
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