8月27日，美国内务部土地管理局对Blythe 太阳能项目工程给环境带来的影响给出了报告。
该太阳能项目的产量是1GW，计划将运输给加利福尼亚东南部地区。
要建设太阳能项目，要满足土地管理局列出的要求：要考虑到对生物，人文景观，土地的应用，资源，和水文，水质，水利用等方面影响。
土地管理局的相关人员说：根据法律，条例，标准，和相关文件的解决措施来看，项目中的负面影响大部分都能解决，并且可以清除的。
The U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has issued its Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Blythe Solar Power Project, a 1 GW solar thermal power plant planned for southeast California.
The project, which received proposed California Energy Commission approval earlier this month, is being developed by Oakland, Calif.-based developer Solar Millennium LLC.
In the EIS, the BLM identified an "Agency Preferred Alternative" plan for the project, which considers impacts related to biological resources, cultural resources, land use, visual resources, and hydrology, water quality and water use.
"Many of these adverse impacts can be avoided or substantially reduced based on compliance with applicable laws, ordinances, regulations and standards, and compliance with measures provided [in the document]," the BLM states.
As described in the EIS, the project would consist of "four adjacent, independent, identical power block units of 250 MW nominal capacity each for a total nominal capacity of 1,000 MW commercial solar parabolic-trough generating station and ancillary facilities." The project is expected to be constructed in four phases and will be connected to Southern California Edison’s planned Colorado River Substation, to be located approximately five miles southwest of the project, via a proposed gen-tie line, a bundled double circuit 230 kV transmission line.
A final EIS is considered the last federal regulatory hurdle before a record of decision authorizing construction, according to the New York Times. Final authorization may occur as early as October.
"We're already beginning work on the record of decision, on compliance monitoring plans, on getting all the paperwork together for the rentals and reclamation, and our hope is to package it all together for one big signing," Holly Roberts, associate field manager for BLM's Palm Springs-South Coast Field Office, told the newspaper.
