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Federal officials are refining their plan for speeding up solar energy development in zones of public lands in six Western states, after receiving about 80,000 comments on the plan, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday.
In December, the Interior Department released a draft identifying 24 solar development zones in California, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona with the highest potential for large-scale solar development and the fewest environmental conflicts.
The Bureau of Land Management’s deputy director of operations, Mike Pool, said Thursday that he anticipates eliminating and reducing some zones but that he couldn’t give specifics yet.
