Public Comment Letters

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Comment Title Description Search Terms Date Final Comment Letter
ORS 1 and 2 Two new solar facilities would be constructed with a 16-mile access road that will use existing dirt roads. Proposed Action, Solar Energy 2025-07-28 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4800.pdf
Farber Eider Proposed Pipeline Proposed Action, Threatened or Endangered Species 2025-07-28 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4801.pdf
Los Lunas Exploratory Exploratory Proposed Action 2025-07-28 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4759.pdf
Flying M SA Unit #051 Exploratory Proposed Action 2025-07-25 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4852.pdf
Gaucho Unit 7H A well pad in Lea County that needs an environmental review Oil and Gas Pipeline, Proposed Action 2025-07-22 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4790.pdf
NVANU 4A EXPLORATORY Proposed Action 2025-07-17 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4724.pdf
Homestake ET Cover The purpose of the Proposed Action is to update the approved final cover design for the Large Tailings Pile with an evapotranspiration cover and approve the use of borrow areas. Land disturbance under the Proposed Action will be in the large tailings pile, borrow areas to the north, west, and northwest of the tailings pile, and haul roads that connect the borrow areas to the tailings pile. The disturbed areas will be amended with compost and reseeded as discussed in the design report. The Proposed Action will take less than seven months to complete. Mine Infrastructure, Proposed Action 2025-07-17 public_comment_letter_NMERT-3198.pdf
Llama Mall Exploratory Exploratory Oil and Gas 2025-07-11 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4758.pdf
Huning Site Exus Reviewing project sites for potential species and habitat as part of potential solar developement. Project timeline is unknown at this time. 2025-07-11 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4761.pdf
AMREP Parcels Exus Reviewing potential project areas for potential threatened or endangered species and their habitats for potential solar devlopement.timeline is not know at this time. 2025-07-11 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4762.pdf
King 3 Site Exus Identifying project areas for potential T&E species and their habitats for potential solar developement. No timeline known at this time. 2025-07-11 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4763.pdf
La Bajada site Exus reviewing project sites for potential presence/absence of T&E species and their habitat for potential solar development. timeline unknown at this time. 2025-07-11 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4764.pdf
Picuris Green Hydrogen Facility This is in the preliminary stages of the project. This project proposes to install a 3.5 MW electrolyzer and a 1.5 MW fuel cell and a 2-ton hydrogen gas storage capacity. A Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) is planned to be installed into a microgrid for more efficiency and sustainable energy distribution. This aims to provide the Picuris tribe their main source of energy. We are seeking correspondence with the USFWS as this Environmental Assessment requires concurrence for ESA Section 7 Energy Development, Proposed Action 2025-07-11 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4770.pdf
Potential Project to expand mine Freeport-McMoRan Chino (Chino) is proposing the development of two waste rock stockpiles adjacent to its Santa Rita open pit operations near Silver City, NM. The proposed Cloud 9 (C9) and Kessel Stockpile footprints would incorporate both private lands owned by Chino and public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. A draft Mine Plan of Operations (MPO) and baseline studies to support environmental review and decision making were previously submitted to BLM for the C9 Stockpile. With the recent determination of the need for the Kessel Stockpile and upon further consultation with BLM, the construction of the two stockpiles will be incorporated into a single MPO amendment. The MPO amendment will be developed under a separate scope and contract. BLM is required to conduct an evaluation of the project under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This RFP assumes the BLM will require NEPA analysis at the level of an Environmental Assessment using a third-party consultant. Baseline studies for C9 have been completed to support BLM's previously planned in-house NEPA evaluation. These studies will be made available to the consultant for use in developing the NEPA evaluation for the combined C9 and Kessel Stockpile MPO modification. The target date for project completion, as signified by the predicted issuance of a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) is by July 1 of 2026. Proposed Action 2025-07-11 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4771.pdf
Huning Solar Farm Proposed Action, Solar Energy 2025-07-11 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4784.pdf
Belen Solar Farm Proposed Action, Solar Energy 2025-07-11 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4785.pdf
King-3 Solar Farm Proposed Action, Solar Energy 2025-07-11 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4786.pdf
La Bajada Solar Farm Proposed Action, Solar Energy 2025-07-11 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4787.pdf
AMREP Solar Farm Proposed Action, Solar Energy 2025-07-11 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4788.pdf
Opuntia Draw ATG State Com #1 Exploratory Exploratory Proposed Action 2025-07-10 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4706.pdf
Continental A State #007 Exploratory Proposed Action 2025-07-08 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4797.pdf
RDOF 5248 Pre-field survey species list A species list is needed to identify potential species that could be found near the project area. Crews will be going out to survey the area and this species list will help know what habitat to be aware of that could potentially be in the project area. Biological Survey, Proposed Action 2025-07-08 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4802.pdf
White Oak State #007 Exploratory Proposed Action 2025-07-08 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4798.pdf
Paddock Unit #18 Exporatory Proposed Action 2025-07-02 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4774.pdf
PADDOCK UNIT #19 EXPLORATORY Proposed Action 2025-07-02 public_comment_letter_NMERT-4776.pdf

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