[Federal Register: June 20, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 119)]
[Notices]
[Page 42056]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
[FES 02-18]
American River Pump Station Project, Placer County, California
AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability of the Final Environmental Impact
Statement/ Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR).
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and the Placer County
Water Agency (PCWA) have prepared a Final EIS/EIR for the American
River Pump Station Project.
The proposed project would develop a pump station and related
facilities on the North Fork American River near Auburn, California.
The project would allow PCWA to convey its Middle Fork Project water
entitlement to the Auburn Ravine tunnel to meet demands within its
service area, eliminate safety concerns associated with the Auburn Dam
construction bypass tunnel, restore the dewatered portion of the North
Fork American River at the Auburn Dam construction site, and provide
public river access in the project area. Both facilities and diversion-
related impacts are addressed in the Draft EIS/EIR.
Notice of the Draft EIS/EIR was published in the Federal Register
on September 13, 2001 (66 FR 47685). The public hearing was held on
October 11, 2001. The written comment period ended December 13, 2001.
The Final EIS/EIR contains responses to all comments received and
changes made to the text of the Draft EIS/EIR as a result of those
comments.
DATES: Reclamation will not make a decision on the proposed action
until 30 days after release of the Final EIS/EIR. After the 30-day
waiting period, Reclamation will complete a Record of Decision (ROD).
The ROD will state the action that will be implemented and will discuss
all factors leading to the decision.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Final EIS/EIR in hard copy or on CD may be
requested from Ms. Carol Brown, Surface Water Resources, Inc., at (916)
563-6360. The document can also be viewed on Reclamation's web page at
http://www.mp.usbr.gov/F--projects.html.
See Supplementary Information section for locations where copies of
the Final EIS/EIR are available for public inspection.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Roderick Hall, Reclamation, at
(916) 989-7279, TDD (916) 989-7285, or e-mail rhall@mp.usbr.gov; or Mr.
Brent Smith, PCWA, at (530) 823-4886.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Copies of the Final EIS/EIR are available
for public inspection and review at the following locations:
Auburn-Placer County Library, 350 Nevada Street, Auburn, CA
95603
El Dorado County Main Library, 345 Fair Lane, Placerville, CA
95667
Georgetown Divide Public Utility District, 6425 Main Street,
Georgetown, CA 95634
Lincoln Library, 590 5th Street, Lincoln, CA 95648
Loomis Branch Library, 6050 Library Drive, Loomis, CA 95650
Penryn Library, 2215 Rippey Road, Penryn, CA 95663
Placer County Water Agency, 144 Ferguson Road, Auburn, CA
95604
Rocklin Library, 5460 5th, Rocklin, CA 95677
Sacramento Public Library, 828 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
Bureau of Reclamation, 7794 Folsom Dam Road, Folsom, CA 95630
Bureau of Reclamation, Denver Office Library, Building 67,
Room 167, Denver Federal Center, 6th and Kipling, Denver, CO 80225,
telephone: (303) 445-2072
Bureau of Reclamation, Office of Public Affairs, 2800 Cottage
Way, Sacramento, CA 95825-1898, telephone (916) 978-5100
Natural Resources Library, U.S. Department of the Interior,
1849 C Street, NW., Main Interior Building, Washington, DC 20240-0001
Our practice is to make comments, including names and home
addresses of respondents, available for public review. Individual
respondents may request that we withhold their home address from public
disclosure, which we will honor to the extent allowable by law. There
also may be circumstances in which we would withhold a respondent's
identity from public disclosure, as allowable by law. If you wish us to
withhold your name and/or address, you must state this prominently at
the beginning of your comment. We will make all submissions from
organizations or businesses available for public disclosure in their
entirety.
Dated: June 3, 2002.
Kirk C. Rodgers,
Regional Director.
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