Decision Memo Completed

Butte Pipeline Co. Rocky Point Road Crossing Pipeline Repair

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland Campbell, Wyoming Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest All Units

Replacement of existing crude oil pipeline using horizontal directional drilling under Rocky Point Road, to include staging area, drilling rig landing area, and bell holes (pits) on both sides of the road. Was misnamed Belle Fourche Pipeline Co.

Location

Rocky Point Road (Campbell County Road 85); south of Gilette, WY on the Thunder Basin National Grassland-Spring Creek Unit.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
09/22/2015
2
Decision
11/2015 (Estimated)
3
Implementation
11/2015 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.12 (8), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(8)
Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment RegulationNot Subject to Regulations
Project ActivitySpecial Use Authorizations; Oil
Butte Pipeline Co. Rocky Point Road Crossing Pipeline RepairDecision Signed Date: 11/24/2015
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsDouglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNWNW Sec 7 T54N R70W
Special use managementMinerals and geology