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MIAD, Dikes 4, 5, and 6 to address static
risks; and security upgrades at Folsom
Dam and Appurtenant Structures (the
Folsom Facility).
The Folsom Reservoir currently
provides water supply, flood control,
hydropower, fish and wildlife, and
recreational benefits. The proposed
action will not change operations
relative to water supply, flood control,
hydropower, and fish and wildlife
benefits, but will result in temporary
disruptions of recreational activities at
and near construction and staging sites.
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Availability of Copies of Folsom DS/
FDR Final EIS/EIR
Copies of the Folsom DS/FDR Final
EIS/EIR are available for public review
at the following locations:
• Bureau of Reclamation, Denver
Office Library, Building 67, Room 167,
Denver Federal Center, 6th and Kipling,
Denver, CO 80225.
• Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific
Regional Office Library, 2800 Cottage
Way, W–1825, Sacramento, CA 95825–
1898.
• El Dorado County Library, 345 Fair
Lane, Placerville, CA 95667–5699.
• Folsom Public Library, 300 Persifer
Street, Folsom, CA 95630.
• Natural Resources Library, U.S.
Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street
NW., Main Interior Building,
Washington, DC 20240–0001.
• Roseville Public Library, 311
Vernon Street, Roseville, CA 95678.
• Sacramento Central Library, 828 I
Street, Sacramento, CA 95814–2589.
Additional Information
Correspondence received in response
to this notice will become part of the
administrative record and is subject to
public inspection. Our practice is to
make correspondence including names,
home addresses, home phone numbers,
and email addresses of respondents,
available for public review. Individuals
may request that we withhold their
names and/or home addresses, etc., but
if you wish us to consider withholding
this information, you must state this
prominently at the beginning of your
correspondence. In addition, you must
present a rationale for withholding this
information. This rationale must
demonstrate that disclosure would
constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of privacy. Unsupported
assertions will not meet this burden. In
the absence of exceptional,
documentable circumstances, this
information will be released. We will
always make submissions from
organizations or businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
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organizations or businesses, available
for public inspection in their entirety.
Dated: March 13, 2007.
Kirk C. Rodgers,
Regional Director, Mid-Pacific Region.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
[DES–07–17]
North Sonoma County Agricultural
Reuse Project (NSCARP)—Sonoma
County, CA
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability (NOA) of
the Draft Environmental Impact
Statement/Environmental Impact Report
(EIS/EIR) and notice of public hearings.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(c)
of the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969 (NEPA), and Public
Resources Code, sections 21000–21177
of the California Environmental Quality
Act (CEQA), the Bureau of Reclamation
(Reclamation), the lead Federal agency,
and the Sonoma County Water Agency
(SCWA), the local sponsor and CEQA
lead agency, have made available for
public review and comment a Draft EIS/
EIR for the NSCARP.
The NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR describes
a no action alternative (Alternative 1)
and three action alternatives
(Alternative 2, Alternative 3, and
Alternative 4) that include numerous
features that would create an
agricultural irrigation system comprised
of 19 recycled water storage reservoirs
totaling about 11,200 acre-feet in storage
capacity. In addition, NSCARP would
involve the design and construction of
approximately 112 miles of
transmission pipeline and numerous
pumping stations for conveying water
from the Geysers Pipeline to the storage
reservoirs, and for distribution of the
storage recycled water from the
reservoirs to approximately 21,500 acres
of agricultural lands.
As part of the NEPA/CEQA process,
one public hearing will be held to
provide interested individuals and
organizations with an opportunity to
comment verbally and in writing on the
NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR.
DATES: Comments on the NSCARP Draft
EIS/EIR should be submitted on or
before May 18, 2007 to Mr. David
Cuneo, Senior Environmental Specialist,
at the address below.
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The public hearing will be held on
May 15, 2007 at 10 a.m. at Santa Rosa,
CA.
ADDRESSES: The public hearing will be
held at: Sonoma County Board of
Supervisors Meeting Room, 575
Administration Drive, Santa Rosa,
California 95403.
Send written comments on the
NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR to Mr. David
Cuneo, Sonoma County Water Agency,
P.O. Box 11628, Santa Rosa, CA 95406–
1628 (e-mail: david@scwa.ca.gov). Send
requests for a compact disk or a bound
copy of the Draft EIS/EIR to Mr. David
Cuneo at the address above, telephone:
(707) 547–1935, or e-mail:
david@scwa.ca.gov. The NSCARP Draft
EIS/EIR will also be available on the
Web at: https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/
nepa_projdetails.cfm?Project_ID=2152
and https://
www.sonomacountywater.org/projects/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Douglas Kleinsmith, Reclamation,
Environmental Specialist, telephone:
(916) 978–5034 or e-mail:
dkleinsmith@mp.usbr.gov; or Mr. David
Cuneo, Sonoma County Water Agency,
telephone (707) 547–1935 or e-mail:
david@scwa.ca.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR discusses the
project background, purpose and need,
project description and alternatives, and
related projects. The Draft EIS/EIR
addresses the impacts of project
construction and operation on
aesthetics, agricultural resources, air
quality, biological resources, cultural
resources, environmental justice,
geology and soils, hydrology/water
quality, land use, noise, population and
housing, public health and safety,
public services/utilities, recreation, and
transportation and circulation.
The NSCARP area encompasses
portions of Sonoma County involving
four geographical sub areas within the
Russian River watershed: Alexander
Valley, Dry Creek Valley, North
Alexander Valley, and Russian River
Valley, comprising about 46,000 acres.
These four sub areas correspond to
discrete service areas that would be
served recycled water by sub areaspecific water storage and transmission
facilities.
Federal and state regulatory agencies
have expressed concerns regarding the
potential impacts to fisheries resources
and habitat within the Russian River
and its tributaries. These concerns have
and will continue to result in increased
scrutiny of future diversion of water for
all uses. In 1996, NOAA Fisheries listed
the coho salmon as threatened in the
Russian River watershed and adjacent
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watersheds pursuant to the Federal
Endangered Species Act (ESA). Chinook
salmon and steelhead trout were
similarly listed in 1997 and 1999,
respectively. Through the proposed
distribution, storage, and use of recycled
water for agricultural purposes, the
SCWA has identified a strategy to
reduce reliance on diversions from the
Russian River and other natural
waterways.
The use of recycled water for
irrigation for agricultural purposes has
been occurring in California since 1890
(California Recycled Water Task Force
2003). By the year 2000, there were 234
wastewater treatment plants providing
recycled water for agricultural and
landscape purposes in California
(California Recycled Water Task Force
2003). Today, recycled water in
California is being used for a variety of
purposes, such as irrigation for row
crops, vineyard, pasture, stock feed,
nursery products, turf in parks and
schoolyards, and landscaping. In
Sonoma County, the City of Santa Rosa,
Town of Windsor, and the AirportLarkfield-Wikiup Sanitation Zone
currently provide recycled water for
irrigation of about 7,200 acres of
agricultural land.
The SCWA regulates the flow of the
Russian River for the benefit of
agricultural, municipal, and instream
beneficial uses. The use of recycled
water and conjunctive use of surface
and groundwater supplies within the
SCWA service area are all important
factors in evaluating the management of
the regional water supply. SCWA
believes the use of recycled water to
offset surface and groundwater sources
used by agricultural entities in the
Russian River, Alexander, North
Alexander, and Dry Creek valleys to
benefit fisheries in the Russian River
watershed. The recycled water would be
used for agricultural purposes
consistent with the California Code of
Regulations, Title 22, pertaining to the
use of tertiary-treated recycled water.
Copies of the NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR
are available for public review at the
following locations:
• Sonoma County Water Agency, 404
Aviation Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA
95403.
• Sonoma County Central Library,
Third and E Street, Santa Rosa, CA
95404.
• Healdsburg Regional Library, Piper
and Center Streets, Healdsburg, CA
95448.
• Windsor Regional Library, 9291 Old
Redwood Highway, Windsor, CA 95492.
• Guerneville Regional Library, 14107
Armstrong Woods Road, Guerneville,
CA 95446.
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• Forestville Library Station, 7050
Covey Road, Forestville, CA 95436.
• Cloverdale Regional Library, 401 N
Cloverdale Boulevard, Cloverdale, CA
95425.
• Bureau of Reclamation, Denver
Office Library, Building 67, Room 167,
Denver Federal Center, 6th and Kipling,
Denver, CO 80225.
• Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific
Regional Office Library, 2800 Cottage
Way, W–1825, Sacramento, CA 95825–
1898.
• Natural Resources Library, U.S.
Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street
NW., Main Interior Building,
Washington, DC 20240–0001.
Additional Information
If special assistance is required at the
public hearings, please contact Mr.
David Cuneo at (707) 547–1935 (e-mail:
david@scwa.ca.gov). Please notify Mr.
Cuneo as far in advance of the hearings
as possible to enable the SCWA to
secure the needed services. If a request
cannot be honored, the requestor will be
notified.
Comments received in response to
this notice will become part of the
administrative record and are subject to
public inspection. Our practice is to
make comments, including names,
home addresses, home phone numbers,
and e-mail addresses of respondents,
available for public review. Individual
respondents may request that we
withhold their names and/or home
addresses, etc., but if you wish us to
consider withholding this information,
you must state this prominently at the
beginning of your comments. In
addition, you must present a rationale
for withholding this information. This
rationale must demonstrate that
disclosure would constitute a clearly
unwarranted invasion of privacy.
Unsupported assertions will not meet
this burden. In the absence of
exceptional, documentable
circumstances, this information will be
released. We will always make
submissions from organizations or
businesses, and from individuals
identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, available
for public inspection in their entirety.
Dated: December 11, 2006.
Kirk C. Rodgers,
Regional Director, Mid-Pacific Region.
This document was received at the Office
of the Federal Register on March 22, 2007.
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INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND
WATER COMMISSION, UNITED
STATES AND MEXICO
Notice of Availability of a Final
Environmental Assessment and
Finding of No Significant Impact for
Improvements to the Mission and
Common Levee Systems, in the Lower
Rio Grande Flood Control Project,
Located in Hidalgo County, TX
United States Section,
International Boundary and Water
Commission (USIBWC), United States
and Mexico.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of Final
Environmental Assessment (EA) and
Finding of No Significant Impact
(FONSI).
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c)
of the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969; the Council on
Environmental Quality Final
Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through
1508); and the United States Section’s
Operational Procedures for
Implementing Section 102 of NEPA,
published in the Federal Register
September 2, 1981, (46 FR 44083); the
United States Section hereby gives
notice that the Final Environmental
Assessment and Finding of No
Significant Impact for Improvements to
the Mission and Common Levee
Systems, in the Lower Rio Grande Flood
Control Project, located in Hidalgo
County, Texas are available.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gilbert G. Anaya, Supervisory
Environmental Protection Specialist;
Environmental Management Division;
United States Section, International
Boundary and Water Commission; 4171
N. Mesa, C–100; El Paso, Texas 79902.
Telephone: (915) 832–4702, e-mail:
gilbertanaya@ibwc.state.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The USIBWC is considering raising
the 12.0-mile Mission Levee System and
the 5.3-mile Common Levee System to
meet current flood control requirements.
The proposed action would increase the
height of the levee up to 8 feet
depending on location. The height
increase would also result in expansion
of the levee footprint by lateral
extension of the structure. Levee
footprint increases for both the Mission
and Common Levee systems would
occur within the USIBWC right-of-way
and extend primarily toward the
riverside of the existing levee. Along
sections of the Mission Levee System,
structural improvements such as slurry
walls may be required in segments with
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
[DES-07-17]
North Sonoma County Agricultural Reuse Project (NSCARP)--Sonoma
County, CA
AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability (NOA) of the Draft Environmental Impact
Statement/Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) and notice of public
hearings.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), and Public Resources Code, sections 21000-
21177 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the Bureau of
Reclamation (Reclamation), the lead Federal agency, and the Sonoma
County Water Agency (SCWA), the local sponsor and CEQA lead agency,
have made available for public review and comment a Draft EIS/EIR for
the NSCARP.
The NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR describes a no action alternative
(Alternative 1) and three action alternatives (Alternative 2,
Alternative 3, and Alternative 4) that include numerous features that
would create an agricultural irrigation system comprised of 19 recycled
water storage reservoirs totaling about 11,200 acre-feet in storage
capacity. In addition, NSCARP would involve the design and construction
of approximately 112 miles of transmission pipeline and numerous
pumping stations for conveying water from the Geysers Pipeline to the
storage reservoirs, and for distribution of the storage recycled water
from the reservoirs to approximately 21,500 acres of agricultural
lands.
As part of the NEPA/CEQA process, one public hearing will be held
to provide interested individuals and organizations with an opportunity
to comment verbally and in writing on the NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR.
DATES: Comments on the NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR should be submitted on or
before May 18, 2007 to Mr. David Cuneo, Senior Environmental
Specialist, at the address below.
The public hearing will be held on May 15, 2007 at 10 a.m. at Santa
Rosa, CA.
ADDRESSES: The public hearing will be held at: Sonoma County Board of
Supervisors Meeting Room, 575 Administration Drive, Santa Rosa,
California 95403.
Send written comments on the NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR to Mr. David
Cuneo, Sonoma County Water Agency, P.O. Box 11628, Santa Rosa, CA
95406-1628 (e-mail: david@scwa.ca.gov). Send requests for a compact
disk or a bound copy of the Draft EIS/EIR to Mr. David Cuneo at the
address above, telephone: (707) 547-1935, or e-mail: david@scwa.ca.gov.
The NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR will also be available on the Web at: https://
www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_projdetails.cfm?Project_ID=2152 and https://
www.sonomacountywater.org/projects/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Douglas Kleinsmith, Reclamation,
Environmental Specialist, telephone: (916) 978-5034 or e-mail:
dkleinsmith@mp.usbr.gov; or Mr. David Cuneo, Sonoma County Water
Agency, telephone (707) 547-1935 or e-mail: david@scwa.ca.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR discusses the
project background, purpose and need, project description and
alternatives, and related projects. The Draft EIS/EIR addresses the
impacts of project construction and operation on aesthetics,
agricultural resources, air quality, biological resources, cultural
resources, environmental justice, geology and soils, hydrology/water
quality, land use, noise, population and housing, public health and
safety, public services/utilities, recreation, and transportation and
circulation.
The NSCARP area encompasses portions of Sonoma County involving
four geographical sub areas within the Russian River watershed:
Alexander Valley, Dry Creek Valley, North Alexander Valley, and Russian
River Valley, comprising about 46,000 acres. These four sub areas
correspond to discrete service areas that would be served recycled
water by sub area-specific water storage and transmission facilities.
Federal and state regulatory agencies have expressed concerns
regarding the potential impacts to fisheries resources and habitat
within the Russian River and its tributaries. These concerns have and
will continue to result in increased scrutiny of future diversion of
water for all uses. In 1996, NOAA Fisheries listed the coho salmon as
threatened in the Russian River watershed and adjacent
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watersheds pursuant to the Federal Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Chinook salmon and steelhead trout were similarly listed in 1997 and
1999, respectively. Through the proposed distribution, storage, and use
of recycled water for agricultural purposes, the SCWA has identified a
strategy to reduce reliance on diversions from the Russian River and
other natural waterways.
The use of recycled water for irrigation for agricultural purposes
has been occurring in California since 1890 (California Recycled Water
Task Force 2003). By the year 2000, there were 234 wastewater treatment
plants providing recycled water for agricultural and landscape purposes
in California (California Recycled Water Task Force 2003). Today,
recycled water in California is being used for a variety of purposes,
such as irrigation for row crops, vineyard, pasture, stock feed,
nursery products, turf in parks and schoolyards, and landscaping. In
Sonoma County, the City of Santa Rosa, Town of Windsor, and the
Airport-Larkfield-Wikiup Sanitation Zone currently provide recycled
water for irrigation of about 7,200 acres of agricultural land.
The SCWA regulates the flow of the Russian River for the benefit of
agricultural, municipal, and instream beneficial uses. The use of
recycled water and conjunctive use of surface and groundwater supplies
within the SCWA service area are all important factors in evaluating
the management of the regional water supply. SCWA believes the use of
recycled water to offset surface and groundwater sources used by
agricultural entities in the Russian River, Alexander, North Alexander,
and Dry Creek valleys to benefit fisheries in the Russian River
watershed. The recycled water would be used for agricultural purposes
consistent with the California Code of Regulations, Title 22,
pertaining to the use of tertiary-treated recycled water.
Copies of the NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR are available for public review
at the following locations:
Sonoma County Water Agency, 404 Aviation Boulevard, Santa
Rosa, CA 95403.
Sonoma County Central Library, Third and E Street, Santa
Rosa, CA 95404.
Healdsburg Regional Library, Piper and Center Streets,
Healdsburg, CA 95448.
Windsor Regional Library, 9291 Old Redwood Highway,
Windsor, CA 95492.
Guerneville Regional Library, 14107 Armstrong Woods Road,
Guerneville, CA 95446.
Forestville Library Station, 7050 Covey Road, Forestville,
CA 95436.
Cloverdale Regional Library, 401 N Cloverdale Boulevard,
Cloverdale, CA 95425.
Bureau of Reclamation, Denver Office Library, Building 67,
Room 167, Denver Federal Center, 6th and Kipling, Denver, CO 80225.
Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Regional Office
Library, 2800 Cottage Way, W-1825, Sacramento, CA 95825-1898.
Natural Resources Library, U.S. Department of the
Interior, 1849 C Street NW., Main Interior Building, Washington, DC
20240-0001.
Additional Information
If special assistance is required at the public hearings, please
contact Mr. David Cuneo at (707) 547-1935 (e-mail: david@scwa.ca.gov).
Please notify Mr. Cuneo as far in advance of the hearings as possible
to enable the SCWA to secure the needed services. If a request cannot
be honored, the requestor will be notified.
Comments received in response to this notice will become part of
the administrative record and are subject to public inspection. Our
practice is to make comments, including names, home addresses, home
phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of respondents, available for
public review. Individual respondents may request that we withhold
their names and/or home addresses, etc., but if you wish us to consider
withholding this information, you must state this prominently at the
beginning of your comments. In addition, you must present a rationale
for withholding this information. This rationale must demonstrate that
disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy.
Unsupported assertions will not meet this burden. In the absence of
exceptional, documentable circumstances, this information will be
released. We will always make submissions from organizations or
businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, available
for public inspection in their entirety.
Dated: December 11, 2006.
Kirk C. Rodgers,
Regional Director, Mid-Pacific Region.
This document was received at the Office of the Federal
Register on March 22, 2007.
[FR Doc. E7-5560 Filed 3-27-07; 8:45 am]
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