The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), El Centro Field Office, has received an application from the Imperial USA Corporation (IUC) regarding a proposed mining plan of operations in order to conduct exploratory drilling on three discontinuous project segments located on public lands in eastern Imperial County, California. Within the three project segments IUC proposes to grade approximately 168 drill pads and four test pits that would be used to provide information for subsurface mineral, geotechnical, environmental, hydrogeological, and/or engineering assessments.