The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Las Vegas Field Office will host four public scoping meetings to seek input on the Crescent Peak Wind Energy Project. The proposal for Crescent Peak Wind is on 32,531 acres of public lands 10 miles west of Searchlight, Nevada, and extends 22 miles north-to-south and five miles east-to-west, adjacent to the California/Nevada border.…
BLM to overhaul wind, solar rights-of-way regulations
This article, from law firm Beveridge & Diamond PC, is authored by John G. Cossa. The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) intends to publish in the September 30 Federal Register a proposed rule that, if adopted, could significantly alter the landscape of wind and solar energy development on BLM-managed land. The changes contemplated in…
U.S. Forest Service issues final wind use directive
This article come from law firm Stole Rives LLC, (www.stoel.com), and is authored by Sarah Stauffer Curtiss, Heath Curtiss, and Aaron Courtney Nearly five years after issuing its draft directives, the U.S. Forest Service recently issued final directives for wind energy special use authorizations. See 76 Fed Reg 47,354 (Aug. 4, 2011). The new directives…