Sodium Mineral Development Environmental Assesment – Draft

Date: 1981-01-01

Categories: Environmental Impacts, Groundwater, Land & Water Management

Source: Sustainable Living Library

Summary

Environmental assessment (August 1981). Covers Rock Springs, Wyoming, Sweetwater County. Topics: sodium mineral development, trona, soda ash, wild horse management. Agencies: Bureau of Land Management, United States Department of the Interior, State of Wyoming. Cites 32 external works.

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Local Knowledge Graph (41 entities)

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Stakeholders (34)

Agencies, organizations, and groups mentioned as actors in this document.

United States Forest ServiceUnited States Bureau of Land ManagementUnited States Environmental Protection AgencyUnited States Department of AgricultureUnited States Department of the InteriorUnited States Fish and Wildlife ServiceUnited States Geological SurveyBureau of Mines

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University of WyomingWyoming Game and Fish DepartmentWyoming Department of Environmental QualityNational Weather ServiceWyoming Department of TransportationTennecoUniversity of MontanaRocky Mountain Energy CompanyWyoming Department of Economic Planning and DevelopmentWater and Power Resources ServiceWyoming State Department of EducationWyoming Water Development CommissionState of WyomingBLM Rock Springs District OfficeDEQVulcan Materials Co.FMCAlliedStaufferTexasgulfUpland Industries CorporationUinta Development CompanyRock Springs Grazing AssociationEnvironmental Research and Technology, Inc.Wyoming Industrial Siting AdministrationSweetwater County Planning and Zoning Commission

Places (60)

Colorado Colorado River Utah Wyoming Grand Junction Plumas National Forest Sweetwater County Lincoln County

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Sublette County Green River Cheyenne U.S. 187 Pine Springs site sodium carbonate brine area Little Colorado Wells Pilot Butte Firehole North Granger South Granger Southwest Wyoming I-80 Albany Carbon counties Blacks Fork Hams Fork Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area State of Wyoming Highway 187 Church Buttes Kemmerer Granger Little America Salt Wells Resource Area Wilkins Peak Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge Eden Salt Lake City Laramie Casper Rock Springs southwestern Wyoming Flaming Gorge Reservoir Lander Evanston Big Sandy Green River Basin Green River Formation Uinta County Farson Salt Wells Rock Springs District Eden-Farson area Fort Bridger sodium development area trona deposition area Wyoming Intrastate Air Quality Control Region Seedskadee KSLA White Mountain Wild Horse Management Area

Concepts & Topics (68)

population dynamics population dynamics vegetation community composition vegetation community composition vegetation community composition metal concentrations surface runoff greenhouse gas emissions

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soil grain size concentration-discharge relationships water quality standards water quality standards meteorology porewater chemistry water resources imaging spectroscopy monsoon aerosol particle concentration nonpoint source pollution density acid mine drainage air quality monitoring air quality monitoring mesic resources surface inversion sustainable grazing habitat fragmentation aspect effects climate occupancy soil controls aquatic entomology ecological consequences carbonate land use planning exploration carbonate paleoecology seasonal isolation lek Priority Habitat Management Areas animal personality seeder-feeder mechanisms prevention per capita growth rate livestock grazing hyperparameter optimization conservation status education rent premium wilderness soda ash production wastewater ponds affordable housing visual resources visual resources open pit mining Clean Air Act standards trona mining industrial siting recreational activities sodium lease historic and cultural resources historic and cultural resources wild horses soda ash production soda ash production employment National Register of Historic Places master planning

Species (68)

Unknown Delphinium not mentioned Atriplex canescens not specified Rushes Ambystoma tigrinum endangered species

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fish and wildlife golden eagles Centrocercus urophasianus Sage grouse Brown Trout cottonwood Rainbow Trout Hirundo rustica Waterfowl Sialia currucoides Astragalus Cutthroat Trout Atriplex Ptychocheilus lucius Agropyron Colaptes auratus Herring leopard frog Pooecetes gramineus Ardea herodias Eremophila alpestris game species chorus frogs tree lizard sagebrush lizard Spizella breweri Gadwall Egretta thula big game kokanee salmon wild horses Xyrauchen texanus ornate box turtle Catostomus latipinnis Catostomus Flannelmouth Artemisiospiza nevadensis Recurvirostra americana Spea intermontana Botaurus lentiginosus northern plateau lizard Nycticorax nycticorax eastern short-horned lizard midget faded rattlesnake Great Basin gopher snake wandering garter snake Mustela nigripes Gila robusta Winterfat Pantosteus discobolus mountain whitefish Plegadis chihi Kochia Xyrauchen Gila elegans Bluehead Pica hudsonia Oreoscoptes montanus Sayornis saya Charadrius vociferus

External References Cited (62)

Works cited by this document, grouped by type.

other (44)

Industrial siting application for the Tenneco soda ash project (1978) — Tenneco Oil Company
Industrial Siting Application, Tenneco Soda Ash Project
-C. Washington: Department of the Interior (2009) — Survey Water-Supply Paper
issue. Green River, Wyoming (1981) — City agrees with Texasgulf plan as schools list their proposals. March 4
Wildlife inventory of the Salt Wells and Pilot Butte planning units (1981) — Biosystems Analysis, Inc

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issue. Rock Springs, Wyoming: Rock Springs Newspapers, Inc (1981) — Annual progress edition. March 28
to BLM Rock Springs District Manager concerning traffic counts for the Green River area (1981) — Garrett, G. Spencer. Wyoming Highway Department Transportation Planning Engineer, Cheyenne. Letter March 5
Staff review of the permit application for the Texasgulf, Inc., soda ash expansion project, Granger Wyoming (1981) — Wyoming Industrial Siting Administration
Evaluation report on Uinta County School District No (1980) — Wyoming Department of Education, Administrative Services Division
Evanston community profile (1980) — Wyoming mineral yearbook. Cheyenne. Wyoming Department of Economic Planning and Development, Industrial Develop- ment Division
Baseline climate and air quality for BLM lands in Wyoming (2 vols.) LaJolla California (1980) — Science Applications, Inc
Wyoming trona industry facts (1980) — Southwestern Wyoming Industrial Association
Lincoln-Uinta housing element (1980) — Soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, and sodium sulfate. In Mineral Facts and Problems, Bureau of ~lines Bull. No. 671. Washington: Department of the Interior. Lincoln-Uinta Association of Governments
with BLM Rock Springs District Botanist concerning total suspended particulate analysis (1980) — Rondeau, J. C. For Stauffer Chemical Company, Green River, Wyoming. Conversation October 9
Texasgulf applies for expansion permits (1980) — Wyoming trona fact book. Rock Springs. Star
with Co-Team Leader concerning soda ash production and market trends (1980) — Washington, D.C. Telephone conversation November 3
with BLM Rock Springs District Botanist concerning the effects of the sodium industry on vegetation and revegetation possibilities (1980) — Quality Division, Cheyenne. Telephone conversation September 15
Davis, Ned. Manager, trona and other minerals, Rocky Mountain Energy Company, Denver, Colorado (1980) — Planning Coordinator, June
to Team Leader concerning refuge bid populations, waterfolw losses in tailings ponds, and other potential impacts of sodium development (1980) — Wildlife Refuge Manager, October 29
Wyoming mines and minerals (map) (1979) — Wyoming Geological Survey
Trona deposits in the Green River basin, Sweetwater, Uinta, and Lincoln counties, Wyoming (1979) — Culbertson, W. C., and M. J. Burnside
Civilian labor force and unemployment (1979) — Job Service of Wyoming
Soda ash (sodium carbonate), sodium sulfate, and sodium (1979) — Civilian labor force and unemployment. Cheyenne. Kostick, Dennis S
Conservation directory (1979) — National Wildlife Federation
Population projections 1979-1990 Sweetwater County, Wyoming (1979) — Final land use plan for Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Prepared for the Sweetwater County Planning and Zoning Commission
Wyoming 1979 implementation plan for Sweetwater County nonattainment areas (1979) — Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
Current status of the black-footed ferret in Wyoming (1978) — Clark, T. W
Industrial siting application for the Tenneco soda ash project, Sweetwater County, Wyoming (1978) — Tenneco Oil Company
Prehistoric hunters of the high plains (1978) — Regional technical report for southwestern coal development environmental statement--climate and air quality sections. Fort Collins. Frison, George C
Supplementary information on the mining plan for the Texasgulf, Inc., soda ash project (1977) — Colorado School of Mines Research Institute
Rangeland plant physiology: salinity effects on range plants (1977) — Goodin, J. R
Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area final environmental statement and management plan (1977) — Census of population and housing, Wyoming. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ashley National Forest
Current status and inventory of wildlife in Wyoming (1977) — Wyoming Game and Fish Department
Final reports for the Sweetwater/Kemmerer (southwestern) study area (1977) — Environmental Research and Technology, Inc
Chemical quality analysis of surface water in the Flaming Gorge reservoir area, Wyoming and Utah (1973) — Madison, R. J., and K. M. Waddell
Water quality criteria (1972) — National Academy of Sciences
Geochemistry and paleolimnology of the trona deposits and associate authigenic minerals in the Green River forma- tion of Wyoming (1969) — Bradley, W. H. and H. P. Eugster
Geology of the industrial rocks and minerals (1969) — Bates, Robert L
Trona in the Wilkins Peak member of the Green River formation, southwest Wyoming (1966) — Culbertson, W. C
Geology of Green River formation and associated Eocene rocks in southwestern Wyoming and adjacent parts of Colorado and Utah (1964) — Bradley, W. H
Poisonous plants of the United States (1962) — Muenscher, W. C
A study of sagebrush (1960) — Beetle, A. A
Flora of Montana (1959) — Booth, W. E. and J. C. Wright
Diagnosis and improvement of saline and alkali soils (1954) — Richard, L. A. (ed.)

report (12)

Bio/West (1981)
Biosystems Analysis, Inc. (1981)
Staff review of the permit application for the Texasgulf, Inc., soda ash expansion project (1981) — Wyoming Industrial Siting Administration
Baseline climate and air quality for BLM lands in Wyoming (1980) — Science Applications, Inc.
Kostick 1980 (1980) — Kostick

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ERT (1978)
Environmental Research and Technology, Inc. (1977)
Current status and inventory of wildlife in Wyoming (1977) — Wyoming Game and Fish Department
Wyoming Game and Fish Department (1977)
Wyoming fishes (1970) — George T. Baxter and James R. Simon
District Trona Analysis and Stipulations Staff Report
BLM Input/Output Model for Sweetwater, Albany, and Carbon counties of southwestern Wyoming

plan (4)

Interim Management Policy and Guidelines (1979) — Department of the Interior, BLM
Final land use plan for Sweetwater County, Wyoming (1977) — THK Associates, Inc.
Mining plan for the Texasgulf, Inc., soda ash project (1977) — Texasgulf, Inc.
White Mountain Wild Horse Management Plan