Subject: Proposed Soledad Canyon Sand and Gravel Mining Operation, Los Angeles County, CA

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CA-066-99-1990; CACA-20139 and CACA-22901]

Subject: Proposed Soledad Canyon Sand and Gravel Mining

Operation, Los Angeles County, CA

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, Palm

Springs--South Coast Field Office, Desert District, California.

ACTION: Extension of public review period for Draft Environmental

Impact Statement.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management is extending the public comment

period on the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) originally

released in May 1999 to allow time to consider new information on air

quality and possibly other issues. BLM will prepare a supplement to the

draft EIS that will primarily consider the new information, and will

make the supplement available for public review period by November 17,

1999 for at least 45 days prior to the end of the extended public

comment period. The supplement will also analyze a new proposal from

the applicant to transport mine materials by a conveyor belt system

rather than by open trucks as originally proposed in the original draft

EIS released last May and other issues, if necessary.

A separate Federal Register Notice of Availability will be

published when the supplement is released to the public. BLM will

continue to accept comments on the May draft EIS, as well as comments

on the supplement, until January 3, 2000. All substantive public

comments received, and BLM's responses, will be incorporated in a final

EIS to be published in 2000.

DATES: Comments must be submitted in writing no later than January 3,

2000.

ADDRESSES: Written comments shall be mailed to the following address:

Mr. James G. Kenna, Field Manager, Bureau of Land Management, Palm

Spring--South Coast Field Office, 690 W. Garnet Avenue, P.O. Box 1260,

North Palm Springs, California 92258. Comments may also be submitted by

electronic mail (e-mail) to the following address: Palm Springs FO CA-

EMAIL.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Elena Misquez, BLM, Palm

Springs--South Coast Field Office, P.O. Box 1260, North Palm Springs,

CA 92258, telephone 760-251-4810.

James G. Kenna,

Field Manager.

[FR Doc. 99-25686 Filed 10-1-99; 8:45 am]

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