The DEIS evaluates the impacts on the environment that would result from the expansion of current mining operations at the bald Mountain Mine (BMM). The proposed project would be located on public land located in White Pine County, Nevada, approximately 65 miles northwest of Ely, Nevada. The Proposed Actions would include expansion of open pits, rock disposal facilities, heap leach facilities, and haul roads, and development of one new pit and waste rock facility, a truck shop, and growth medium stockpiles. In addition, the Proposed Action would combine the existing BMM Plan of Operations boundary and the Mooney Basin Operations Area boundary into one Plan of Operations, called the BMM North Operations Area Project. This combined boundary would encompass 16,464 acres (approximately 16,391 acres are public land and approximately 73 acres are private land). The Proposed Action would result in an additional 3,920 acres of disturbance for a total of 8,080 acres of disturbance within the new Plan of Operations boundary . . . .