The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) announced today that the revised scoping report for the Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Line Project (B2H Project) is now available. Idaho Power's B2H Project is a proposal to build, operate and maintain a new single-circuit, 500 kilovolt transmission line from a proposed substation in Boardman, Oregon to the Hemingway Substation near Melba, Idaho.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Western States Land Commissioners Association (WSLCA) have renewed their longstanding partnership by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that provides the next step in recognizing the importance of landscape-level approaches to land and resources management across state and federal boundaries.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) today announced the initial steps in a formal planning process to evaluate greater sage-grouse conservation measures in land use plans in 10 western states. The two public land management agencies are opening a 60-day public comment period on issues that should be addressed in Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) and Supplemental Environmental Impact Statements (SEISs) that will be published in the Federal Register on Dec. 9.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) are continuing review of the proposed Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Line. Staff will be meeting with landowners identified along several potential new alternative segments in July and will be co-hosting public meetings, with Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE) and Idaho Power Company (IPC), along the entire project corridor in August.