NV Energy ON Line EIS (Formerly Ely Energy Center Project), NV

JBR prepared a Draft EIS for the proposed Ely Energy Center, a proposed coal-fired power plant, for the BLM Ely Field Office. For this project, JBR specialists evaluated resources on approximately 45,000 acres of land potentially impacted by a proposed 3,000-acre coal-fired power plant, substations, linear facilities including transmission lines (approximately 230 miles of 500 kV lines), water lines (over 40 miles of pipeline), railroad spurs, and access roads. JBR also performed all related baseline studies for the EIS, including wildlife, threatened and endangered species, wetlands, vegetation, visual, noise, and water resources for the proponent. JBR planned and attended multiple public meetings during the scoping and the DEIS public comment periods. Tens of thousands of public comments were handled efficiently with a content analysis process.

Several years into the project, NV Energy announced that it was postponing the proposed coal-fired power plant and would only pursue the permitting for the approximately 230-mile 500 kV transmission line component. Thus, JBR prepared the DSEIS and FEIS that analyzed the construction and operation of a single 500 kV line and new substation. Applicable baseline data was collected for the new substation, access roads, and transmission lines associated with the substation and incorporated into the EIS document.

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