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[Federal Register: July 2, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 127)]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

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Notice of Availability of Final Supplemental Environmental Impact=20
Statement Updating Cumulative Effects Analysis for the Newmont Mining=20
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=20
1969, as amended, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of=20
1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Elko District=20
Office prepared a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement=20
(EIS) to update the cumulative effects analysis for Newmont Mining=20
Corporation's Leeville Project gold mine in Eureka and Elko counties,=20
Nevada, and by this notice is announcing its availability. The project=20
was authorized in 2002.

DATES: The BLM will not issue a final decision on the proposal for a=20
minimum of 30 days after the date that the Environmental Protection=20
Agency publishes its notice in the Federal Register.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Final Supplemental EIS are available for=20
inspection at the BLM, Elko District Office, 3900 Idaho Street, Elko,=20
Nevada 89801. Interested persons may also review the Final Supplemental=20
EIS on the following Elko District Office Web site: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?fro=
m=3DleavingFR.html&log=3Dlinklog&to=3Dhttp://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en=
/fo/elko_field_office.html.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information contact Deb=20
McFarlane, (775) 753-0200, or e-mail: Deb_McFarlene@blm.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM signed a Record of Decision (ROD)=20
for Newmont Mining Corporation's Leeville Project, an underground gold=20
mine located on the Carlin Trend in northeastern Nevada, on September=20
25, 2002. Four years of legal review resulted in the United States=20
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit partially reversing the ROD. The=20
Final Supplemental EIS updates analysis of some cumulative impacts=20
including potential impacts to air quality, minerals, Native American=20
and cultural resources, water, vegetation, grazing, recreation, noise,=20
visual resources, wilderness resources, threatened and endangered=20
species, and socioeconomics.
    The Leeville Project includes three main ore bodies located=20
approximately 2,500 feet below ground's surface. Newmont Mining=20
Corporation is authorized to construct ancillary mine facilities,=20
including construction of five shafts to access the ore bodies, shaft=20
hoists, a waste rock disposal facility, refractory ore stockpiles,=20
facilities to support mine dewatering, and facilities to support=20
backfill operations. Surface disturbance totals 486 acres.
    A Notice of Intent to Prepare a Supplemental EIS Updating=20
Cumulative Effects Analysis for the Newmont Mining Corporation Leeville=20
Project, Nevada, was published in the Federal Register on March 7, 2007=20
[72 FR 10241]. The Notice of Availability for the Draft Supplemental=20
EIS for the Leeville Project was published in the Federal Register on=20
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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