Aurora Area Geothermal Leasing Environmental Assessment Supplement

Forest Service is reevaluating 33 sections for Geothermal leasing availability.

Location Summary

Aurora Area

District: Bridgeport Ranger District

Project Documents

• Decision

  • Aurora Leasing Decision Notice & FONSI (PDF 597kb)
  • Legal Notice of Decision (PDF 85kb)

• Analysis

  • Notice of Proposed Action and Opportunity to Comment (PDF 25kb)
  • Supplement to Carson City Field Office Geothermal Leasing EA (PDF 191kb)
  • Attachment C: Geothermal Lease Stipulations (PDF 44kb)
  • Figure 1: Location Map (PDF 358kb)
  • Figure 2: North and South Aurora Geothermal Leasing Analysis (PDF 2205kb)
  • Table 1: Initial Leasing Decisions (PDF 36kb)
  • Table 2: Revisit Leasing Recommendations 2011 (PDF 45kb)
  • Table 3: Summary of Revised Recommendations (PDF 38kb)
  • Aurora EA Supplement - February 2012 (PDF 954kb)

• Supporting

  • 2006 BLM Geothermal DN/FONSI (PDF 234kb)
  • 2007 Bridgeport RD Geothermal Leasing DN/FONSI (PDF 67kb)
  • Attachment B: Standard Operating Procedures and Conditions of Approval (PDF 81kb)
  • Attachment C: Geothermal Lease Stipulations (PDF 28kb)
  • DN Table 1: Summary of Proposed National Forest Lease Areas and Environmental Risk Levels (PDF 42kb)
  • DN Table 2: Environmental Risk Descriptions (PDF 45kb)