Two Rivers Wind Energy Project

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Project Description

In response to the applications from Two Rivers Wind, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of BluEarth Renewables US, LLC, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management are publishing a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) and seeking public comment on the proposed project. The draft Environmental Assessment would include two 30-year incidental eagle take permits (IETPs) under the Eagle Act.

The combined 79-wind turbine project is being proposed on 20,157 acres of the Two Rivers Ranch (private), interspersed with parcels of land administered by the State of Wyoming Office of State Lands and Investments (OSLI), and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rawlins Field Office, located in Carbon and Albany Counties, Wyoming.

The full text of the draft EA, along with the Eagle Conservation Plans, are available for public comment on the BLM's ePlanning website at: https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2003881/510, or can be obtained from the Service by contacting Tomas Kamienski, USFWS-Project Leadat: tomas_kamienski@fws.gov.

The 30-day public comments period of the draft EA document begins on November 9, 2022, and ends on December 9, 2022.

Comments on the draft EA may be submitted electronically through the ePlanning website at: https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2003881/510, or by one of the following methods: 

By email:  

rob_doster@fws.gov

Include “Two Rivers Wind Project” in the subject line of the message

By U.S. Postal Service:   

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Division of Migratory Birds

Attn: Rob Doster

Post Office Box 25486, DFC

Denver, Colorado 80225  

By hand delivery/courier:  

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Region 6 – Mountain-Prairie Region

Attn: Rob Doster

134 Union Boulevard, Suite 460A

Lakewood, Colorado 80228 

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