Subject: Proposed Soledad Canyon Sand and Gravel Mining Operation, Los Angeles County, CA

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The Bureau of Land Management is extending the public comment period on the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) originally released in May 1999 to allow time to consider new information on air quality and possibly other issues. BLM will prepare a supplement to the draft EIS that will primarily consider the new information, and will make the supplement available for public review period by November 17, 1999 for at least 45 days prior to the end of the extended public comment period. The supplement will also analyze a new proposal from the applicant to transport mine materials by a conveyor belt system rather than by open trucks as originally proposed in the original draft EIS released last May and other issues, if necessary. A separate Federal Register Notice of Availability will be published when the supplement is released to the public. BLM will continue to accept comments on the May draft EIS, as well as comments on the supplement, until January 3, 2000. All substantive public comments received, and BLM's responses, will be incorporated in a final EIS to be published in 2000.