DOE/EIS-0536: Final Environmental Impact Statement

Ten West Link Transmission Line Project; Maricopa and La Paz Counties, Arizona, and Riverside County, California

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), as the lead agency, issued a final EIS that evaluated the potential environmental impacts of constructing, operating, maintaining, and decommissioning the proposed Ten West Link Transmission Line Project, a 500-kilovolt electric transmission line and associated infrastructure that would run from the Delaney Substation near Tonopah, Arizona, to the Colorado River Substation near Blythe, California. All action alternatives included proposed amendments to BLM land use plans. Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a cooperating agency in preparing DOE/EIS-0536, needed to consider whether to fund the project and whether to take an ownership interest in fiber optic communication links over the Project’s fiber optic overhead ground wire.

For more information, see Ten West Link Transmission Line Project.