http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jan/05/wind-power-facility-proposed-near-searchlight/A wind project with 156 generators is being planned for 24,383 acres of public land near Searchlight.
Bureau of Land Management realty specialist Mark Chandler said the bureau received the application a year ago for a proposal capable of producing 359 megawatts of electricity — enough to power roughly 90,000 households. The public is now being asked to comment on the project until Feb. 14 as the bureau develops an environmental impact statement.
"We still have to analyze for the desert tortoise, threatened and endangered plant species, the migratory bird issue," Chandler said. "Cultural issues we also have to look at."
Construction would begin in December 2010 at the earliest and would take two years.
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