[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1819-1820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-605]
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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[DES-98-57]
Notice of Availability of Draft Environmental Impact Statement
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Bureau of Land Management
(BLM) has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the
Colorado Sodium Products Development Project (Project), located in Rio
Blanco County and Garfield County, Colorado.
DATES: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, the
BLM will conduct public meetings to solicit comments on this draft EIS.
These public meetings will be held in two locations:
1. Bureau of Land Management, White River Resource Area Office,
73544 Highway 64, Meeker, Colorado, on February 10, 1999, at 7:00 PM.
2. Town Hall Council Chambers, 222 Grand Valley Way, Parachute,
Colorado, on February 11, 1999 at 7:00 PM.
Written comments and recommendations on this Draft EIS should be
received on or before March 9, 1999.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments concerning this notice to Mr. Larry
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Shults, Natural Resource Specialist, U.S. Bureau of Land Management,
White River Resource Area, 73544 Highway 64, Meeker, CO 81641.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Shults, (970) 878-3601.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: American Soda, L.L.P. (American Soda)
intends to construct and operate a commercial nahcolite solution mining
operation in the northcentral portion of the Piceance Creek Basin in
Rio Blanco County, Colorado. Nahcolite is naturally occurring sodium
bicarbonate that is found in association with oil shale deposits. After
the nahcolite is removed from the ground, it would be processed into a
sodium carbonate solution and transported by a 44-mile pipeline south
to a processing operation to be located at an existing industrial site
in the Parachute Valley in Garfield County, Colorado. There it would be
further processed to commercial grade sodium carbonate, sodium
bicarbonate, and other sodium products which would then be shipped from
the processing facility via a 4-mile long dedicated rail spur to an
interstate rail connection near the town of Parachute.
John J. Mehlhoff,
Resource Area Manager, White River Resource Area.
[FR Doc. 99-605 Filed 1-11-99; 8:45 am]
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