BLM weighs proposal to bury interstate line near N.M. weapons range

摘要

The Bureau of Land Management will conduct a formal environmental assessment (EA) of the much-debated proposal to bury up to 5 miles of a multistate power line project in an effort to avoid interfering with the Army's White Sands Missile Range. BLM says the EA will explore whether burying three sections of the 515-mile-long SunZia Southwest Transmission Project near the New Mexico missile range represents "substantial changes in the proposed action that are relevant to environmental concerns" or presents "significant new circumstances or information relevant to environmental concerns" associated with burying the lines, according to a BLM notice.