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BLACK MESA PROJECT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) is preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to analyze the effects of the Black Mesa Project. Black Mesa Project Draft EIS NEW Suspension of work on EIS OSM has suspended work on the EIS. Southern California Edison terminated funding of the EIS effective May 18, 2007. By report [155KB,  ]
to the California Public Utilities Commission on May 22, 2007, Southern California Edison announced its decision to discontinue efforts to sell the Mohave Generating Station to new owners who would restart the power plant. The Mohave Generating Station itself is not a part of the proposed Black Mesa Project, but the Black Mesa mining operation, coal slurry preparation plant, coal-slurry pipeline, and proposed Coconino water-supply system are dependent on resumption of operation of the power plant.Federal Register Notices Announcing Extended Comment Period on Draft EIS OSMRE [52KB, ]Environmental Protection Agency [58KB, ]Federal Register Notices Announcing Availability of the Draft EIS for Comment OSMRE (Original) [53KB, ]Environmental Protection Agency [53KB, ]
Public Meetings Public Meetings Locations, Dates, and Times[12KB,
]Public Meetings Procedures [22KB, ]
Black Mesa Project The Black Mesa Project [29KB, ]
includes:
The Black Mesa Project Area Map shows the general locations of the mines and preparation plant, the coal slurry pipeline, the proposed waters wells, and the proposed water pipeline. |TOP| LIFE OF MINE PERMIT APPLICATION The permit revision application for the Black Mesa and Kayenta Mines contains detailed maps and descriptions of the operation and reclamation plans. |TOP| PREP PLANT PERMIT APPLICATION [16MB, ]Black Mesa Pipeline's Preparation Plant Permit Application contains maps and descriptions of the operation and reclamation plans for the Black Mesa Preparation Plant. (Very large file) |TOP| Cooperators The Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA); U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (USFS), County of Mohave, Arizona; and City of Kingman, Arizona will cooperate with OSMRE in the preparation of the EIS. Under applicable laws, OSMRE and the cooperators would need to make several decisions [10KB, ]
on whether to approve various aspects of the Black Mesa and Kayenta Mines
life-of-mine revision, the Coal Slurry Preparation Plant, the Coal Slurry
Pipeline, and the C-aquifer Water Supply System.|TOP| Scoping OSMRE prepared a report [14MB, ]
summarizing the scoping process and public scoping comments. On December 1, 2004, OSMRE published in the Federal Register (69 FR 69951) a Notice of Intent to prepare the EIS and to hold public meetings on the scope of the EIS and significant issues that should be addressed in the EIS. In the notice, OSMRE announced a public comment period that ended on January 21, 2005. During the first two weeks of January 2005, OSMRE held eight scoping meetings at the following locations.
More than 720 persons attended the public meetings. In addition to the public meetings, OSMRE met with representatives from the Arizona Ethnobotanical Research Association, Black Mesa Water Coalition, Indigenous Environmental Network, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, To’Nizhoni Ani, and the Western Navajo Farm Bureau on January 14, 2005, to answer questions about the proposed project and EIS and permitting processes, and to obtain their comments about the scope of the EIS. OSMRE also met with union workers at the Black Mesa and Kayenta Mines on February 17, 2005, to answer questions about the proposed project and EIS and permitting processes, and to obtain their comments about the scope of the EIS. During the announced public comment periods, OSMRE received comments in the form of:
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Requirements and Guidance The following documents contain requirements and guidance for the preparation of Environmental Impact Statements:
1990 Environmental Impact Statement Documents |TOP| |
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