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The Service is correcting the final Milestone to be coincident with the ROD, as originally intended. The November date was entered in error. The Service has coordinated with the Corps regarding the correction. The new target date of 4/11/18 will not affect other Milestones or the project schedule.
Milestone date of 2/15/22 added based on conversation with project sponsor and BLM officials.
Justification
Justification
The USDA Rural Utilities Service (RUS) completion date for "Issuance of Final EA," was missed because the Executive Director did not timely receive a request to revise the completion date to a new date that is 30 days past the original completion date pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 4370m-2(c)(2)(D)(i)(III). This date needed to be extended and so was the date for EA Process concluded
The Service and the Corps have agreed to a 30-day extension for the consultation to allow adequate time for the Corps to review and comment on the draft biological opinion.
Triggered missed date from extending Issuance of final decision for permit/approval within 30 days of its current target date which was 10/31/2021 and extended to 01/18/2022
Due to issues regarding the sufficiency of the recently-issued FWS "Right-of-way authorization" for the project ( which may not be re-issued due to potential route changes ), the RUS currently is reevaluating the scope and alternatives for the ongoing "Final EA" analysis pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Once this reevaluation is complete, the RUS will establish an alternate completion date for the action on the Dashboard. The agency has set an alternate completion date of 11/15/2021.