This notice announces that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) intends to cancel all work on the environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed Fort Mojave Solar Project, Fort Mojave Indian Reservation, Mohave County, Arizona, and Clark County, Nevada. The notice of intent to prepare the EIS, which included a description of the proposed action, was published in the Federal Register on April 11, 2016.

The BIA is cancelling work on this EIS because the Fort Mojave Tribe and their solar development partner have mutually decided not to pursue development of the solar energy generation facility that was the subject of the EIS. The notice of intent to prepare the EIS, which included a description of the proposed action, was published in the Federal Register on April 11, 2016 (81 FR 21377). Public meetings were held on May 25-26, 2016, at Mohave Valley, Arizona and Laughlin, Nevada respectively. The Draft EIS had not yet been published.