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White Pine Energy StationPlease click here for the Record of Decision (ROD) Please click here for the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) Please click here for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) The White Pine Energy Station (WPES) would be a coal-fired, hybrid-cooled, electric power plant and associated ancillary facilities, to be located north of Ely in White Pine County, Nevada. The WPES would consist of up to three 500 to 800 megawatt (MW) power generation units with a total combined electrical capacity of up to 1,590 MW. Related facilities include, without limitation, a rail loop, coal unloading, handling and storage facilities, solid waste disposal facility, water storage and treatment facilities, evaporation pond, cooling towers, electric switchyard and support buildings. Ancillary facilities would include wells, water pipeline (30' permanent width plus 30' additional construction width) and related facilities, rail spur (100' width), access road (35' width) and electric transmission facilities, which include electric transmission lines (generally 200' width) and two electric substations. The power plant and ancillary facilities would be located in mostly flat terrain within Steptoe Valley, with the electric transmission line following a designated utility corridor which crosses the Egan Range, through Butte Valley, terminating at a proposed electric substation near Robinson Summit. On December 19, 2008, the BLM signed the Record of Decision for the White Pine Energy Station, approving the Right of Way applications and subsequent sale of the Power Plant site. The proposed power plant development area and ancillary facilities would encompass approximately 2,800 acres: approximately 1,300 acres would be required for the power plant site and access, approximately 1,250 acres would be used for ancillary facilities, and approximately 250 acres would be used for temporary construction laydown for the ancillary facilities. The facilities would be generally located within and/or across the following sections of public land:
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