DOE/EA-1784: Final Environmental Assessment

Loan Guarantee for Fotowatio Nevada Solar, LLC's APEX Solar Power Project in Clark County, Nevada

Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance

October 1, 2010

Fotowatio Nevada Solar, LLC, Apex Photovoltaic Solar Power Facility; Clark County, Nevada

DOE adopted this Bureau of Land Management (BLM final EA, which analyzes the potential environmental impacts of the proposed construction and startup of solar arrays, a substation, and a new electrical transmission line across BLM-managed lands. Fotowatio Nevada Solar, LLC, applied to DOE, a cooperating agency in preparing the EA, for a federal loan guarantee for the project.

For more information, see Fotowatio Nevada Solar, LLC, Apex Photovoltaic Solar Power Facility.

  • EA-1784: Final Environmental Assessment (811.08 KB)
    The proposed action analyzed in this EA is the granting of a ROW to Fotowatio to construct, operate maintain and terminate a 69 kV transmission line across BLM-administered lands. The transmission line would originate on private lands within the proposed Apex Solar Power Project site in the Apex Industrial Park. The construction and operation of the solar facility on private lands is a non-federal connected action. The proposed transmission line must cross BLM-administered land to interconnect to an existing transmission line with available capacity to accept the electrical load (granting the ROW is a Federal action).