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ECON 370 Week 2 Environmental and Economic Impact Assessment.docx ECON 370 Environmental and Economic Impact Assessment University of Phoenix ECON 370: Environmnetal Economics Environmental and ... Economic Impact Assessment Introduction This review will cover the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest Battle Mountain District Analysis for Pending Lease Application: NVN 074289 in the 2008 Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Geothermal Leasing in the Western United States, Volume II: Analysis for Pending Lease Applications. In 2001, Lillian Darrough, the owner of the nearby hot springs, Darroughs Hot Springs, with a partnership with the Great American Energy, filled a noncompetitive lease application in. The lease application site is for 160 acres within the Austin-Austin and Tonopah Ranger Districts of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest (NF) which is managed by the Forest Services (FS) and falls within Nye County. The NF lands is a portion of a total area of 440 acres of land needed for the future private industry development of geothermal resources. Other lands include 160 acres of public lands within the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Battle Mountain District overseen by the BLM Tonopah Field Office, and 120 acres of private lands. Great American Energy communicated that they would develop a 12-megawatt binary power plant on the private and public land since the FS proposed lease land is within an Inventories Roadless Area (IRA). Environmental Impacts Land Use or Recreation Impact Proposed lease would not. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . [Show More]

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