99-17857. Notice of Availability of Final Environmental Impact Statement

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 136 (Friday, July 16, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38466-38467]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-17857]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[FES-99-18]


Notice of Availability of Final 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 Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the 
Colorado Sodium Products Development Project (Project), located in Rio 
Blanco County and Garfield County, Colorado. Written comments and 
recommendations on this Final EIS should be received on or before 
September 13, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Address all comments concerning this EIS to Mr. Larry 
Shults, Natural Resources Specialist, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, 
White River Field Office, 73544 Highway 64, Meeker, CO 81641.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Shults, [phone].

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

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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 Field Office.
[FR Doc. 99-17857 Filed 7-15-99; 8:45 am]
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