Summary
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), with DOE as a cooperating agency, prepared DOE/EA-1758 to analyze the potential environmental impacts of providing funding to Davenport Newberry Holdings LLC (Davenport) for a proposal to drill, test, and monitor of up to 12 temperature gradient/passive seismic geothermal exploratory wells within the Deschutes National Forest in Deschutes County, Oregon. The proposal included acquiring scientific data about the geothermal resource and subsurface geologic structure over a portion of Davenport’s federal geothermal leases.