Public Scoping Meetings

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) held six open house meetings throughout Nevada between April 11, 2006 and April 18, 2006.  The meeting purpose was to inform the public that a right-of-way application had been filed and the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) process had been started.  Public meetings are an opportunity for the EIS team to meet the public, provide information on the project, explain the EIS process and laws/regulations that play an integral part of completing the EIS, and to provide an opportunity for the public to ask questions.  At each meeting, the scoping process was explained and fact sheets with comment forms were provided. 

The public scoping meetings were held in Reno, Las Vegas, Baker, Caliente, Alamo, and Mesquite, Nevada.  The BLM distributed press releases announcing the dates, locations, and times of scoping meetings to local and regional print and broadcast media.  The press release was sent to newspapers as well as radio and television stations for airing of public service announcements.  Paid legal notices indicating the dates, locations, and times of scoping meetings were published in the local newspapers for each of the cities listed above.