The changes came partly in response to more than 80,000 comments by developers, other stakeholders and residents on the draft plan, released last December.
After it is published in the Federal Register, a 90-day public comment period will begin for the Supplement to the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Solar Energy Development.
The 582-page supplement “establishes for the first time a blueprint for landscape-level planning that will help facilitate smarter siting of solar-energy projects”, says Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
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