Final Eis For The Modified Blythe Solar Power Project PDF Download

This Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS) was prepared considering proposed amendments to the previously approved Blythe Solar Power Project (BSPP) right-of-way (ROW) grant. The BSPP received a ROW grant in 2010 to construct a 1,000-megawatt (MW) solar energy generating plant utilizing thermal parabolic trough technology on 6,831 acres of public land located near the City of Blythe in Riverside County, California (Approved Project). The current owner and holder of the BSPP right-of-way (ROW) grant (CACA-048811) has relinquished a portion of the original ROW and is requesting a variance from the existing approval to amend the grant to convert the BSPP to photovoltaic technology, reduce the size of the solar plant site, and reconfigure the solar plant site to allow transmission and access road corridors through the BSPP site for two projects proposed to the north (Modified Project). The pending decision on the BSPP is whether to approve, approve with modifications, or deny issuance of a modified ROW grant.