Decision Memo Completed

Yampa Valley Electric Association, Inc. HBE140 Amendment #5

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland Routt, Colorado Hahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District

YVEA proposes to install, operate, and maintain buried utility lines and associated infrastructure within the Steamboat Ski Area permit boundary on the Hahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District of the Routt National Forest.

Location

Steamboat Ski Resort Pioneer/Mahogany Ridge area on the Routt National Forest.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
06/22/2023
2
Decision
07/2023 (Estimated)
3
Implementation
08/2023 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.2 (3), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(3)
Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment RegulationNot Subject to Regulations
Project ActivitySpecial Use Authorizations
Yampa Valley Electric Association, Inc. HBE140 Amendment #5Decision Signed Date: 07/21/2023
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsHahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionSections 23 & 24, Township 6 North, Range 84 West, 6TH Principal Meridian, Routt County, Colorado.
Special use management