Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and Public Scoping Virtual Meeting Room for the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery Surface Water Intake Fish Screens and Fish Passage Project, Chelan County, Washington, 23058-23059 [2020-08671]
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BILLING CODE 4310–40–P
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
[RR01114000, 20XR0680A5,
RA.5221203.0019100]
Notice of Intent to Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement and
Public Scoping Virtual Meeting Room
for the Leavenworth National Fish
Hatchery Surface Water Intake Fish
Screens and Fish Passage Project,
Chelan County, Washington
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of intent; request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Reclamation
(Reclamation) intends to prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
on the Leavenworth National Fish
Hatchery (LNFH) Surface Water Intake
Fish Screens and Fish Passage (SWISP)
Project. Reclamation is requesting
public and agency comment to identify
significant issues or other alternatives to
be considered in the EIS.
DATES: The public will have the
opportunity to participate in the scoping
process by providing written scoping
comments, providing input through a
web-based virtual meeting room from
April 24, 2020, to May 26, 2020, and/
or participating in a question and
answer teleconference on May 18, 2020
from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (PDT).
ADDRESSES: Provide written scoping
comments, requests to be added to the
mailing list, or other special assistance
needs to Mr. Jason Sutter, EIS Team
Lead, Bureau of Reclamation,
Columbia–Pacific Northwest Regional
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Office, 1150 N. Curtis Road, Boise, ID
83706 or email BOR-SHA-PNRLSWISP@
usbr.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
requests to be added to the mailing list,
or other special assistance needs, please
contact Mr. Jason Sutter, at the address
or email provided in the ADDRESSES
section or by telephone at (208) 378–
5390 or facsimile (509) 454–5650.
Persons who use a telecommunications
device for the deaf may call the Federal
Relay Service (FedRelay) at 1–800–877–
8339 TTY/ASCII to contact the above
individual during normal business
hours or to leave a message or question
after hours. You will receive a reply
during normal business hours.
Information on this project, including
details for the public question and
answer teleconference, may also be
found at: https://www.usbr.gov/pn/
programs/leavenworth/swisp/
index.html.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Reclamation is issuing this notice
pursuant to the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.; the Council on
Environmental Quality’s regulations for
implementing NEPA, 43 CFR parts 1500
through 1508; and the Department of the
Interior’s NEPA regulations, 43 CFR part
46. The virtual meeting will be
accessible at https://virtualpublic
meeting.com/leavenworth-swisp-eis.
Website visitors will be able to view
public meeting materials, pose
questions, view answers, and submit
comments. Please monitor the project
website for any changes or updates at
https://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/
leavenworth/swisp/.
Background
The LNFH was designed and
constructed in the late 1930s as
mitigation for the construction of Grand
Coulee Dam. The hatchery, which is
operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (USFWS) and funded by
Reclamation and Bonneville Power
Administration, produces 1.2 million
spring Chinook Salmon smolts annually
that are released into Icicle Creek.
The LNFH’s primary point of
diversion and water delivery system on
Icicle Creek is nearly 80 years old and
is reaching or exceeding its operational
life. Rehabilitation, replacement, and
modernization of the LNFH surface
water intake and delivery system was
evaluated in the 2002 USFWS Icicle
Creek Restoration Project Final EIS and
the 2019 Icicle Creek Water Resource
Management Strategy Final
Programmatic EIS prepared by the State
of Washington Department of Ecology
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and Chelan County under the
Washington State Environmental Policy
Act. Currently, the intake facility does
not comply with National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) criteria for
anadromous salmonids. The 2017
NMFS biological opinion covering
LNFH operations requires the LNFH to
have a surface water intake and delivery
system that complies with NMFS
current screening and fish passage
criteria for anadromous fish passage
facilities in place and operating by May
2023.
In addition to meeting legal
requirements, LNFH needs to improve
employee safety when operating and
maintaining intake and delivery
facilities, improve flow control and
water conservation capabilities,
effectively manage sediment adversely
affecting the water delivery system, and
increase reliability and longevity of the
system. The purpose of the SWISP
Project is to minimize take of ESA-listed
fish species, provide fish passage that
complies with current regulatory
criteria, and ensure safe, efficient, and
reliable delivery of LNFH’s full surface
water rights from Icicle Creek.
Reclamation proposes to rehabilitate
the LNFH intake and delivery system on
Icicle Creek by constructing new
headworks and a creek-width
roughened channel, and replacing/
lining the surface water conveyance
pipeline to the hatchery. In addition, the
current intake access road would be
modified and extended to provide better
entry to an expanded intake operations
and maintenance area. Construction of
the headworks and roughened channel
would incorporate the existing low-head
diversion dam and intake channel. Selfcleaning, cylindrical fish screens would
be installed at the diversion headworks,
and a low-flow boulder weir fishway
would be integrated into the roughened
channel. A new pipeline would be
placed in the intake channel to connect
the headworks to the conveyance
pipeline. The intake channel would be
filled to cover the pipeline and create
the intake operations and maintenance
area. The conveyance pipeline would be
replaced on USFWS lands and lined
with cure-in-place liner on private
parcels. Several manhole access points
along the existing conveyance pipeline
alignment would be constructed to
provide ingress and egress for pipe
lining on private lands.
Reclamation is not presently aware of
any known or possible Indian Trust
Assets, Indian Sacred Sites, or
Environmental Justice issues associated
with the proposed action, but requests
any information relative to this issue be
submitted during the scoping period.
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Reclamation intends to complete an
EIS for this project pursuant to the
NEPA. The EIS will analyze the
potential environmental effects of the
proposed action, a no-action alternative,
and a reasonable range of alternatives
designed to respond to the purpose and
need for the project. The 30-day scoping
process and the virtual meetings
identified in this notice are intended to
inform the public about the project and
to request public and agency comment
to identify significant issues or
alternatives to be addressed in the EIS.
Public Disclosure
Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Lorri J. Gray,
Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior Region 9—Columbia–Pacific
Northwest.
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE
COMMISSION
Petitions for Duty Suspensions and
Reductions; Notice That the
Commission Will Accept Additional
Comments Through Its Website
Relating to Certain Petitions Included
in Its Preliminary Report to the
Congress
United States International
Trade Commission.
ACTION: Notice that the Commission will
accept additional comments from the
public, during the period June 12 to
June 22, 2020, on petitions for duty
suspensions and reductions that the
Commission places in Category VI in the
preliminary report that it sends to the
House Committee on Ways and Means
and the Senate Committee on Finance
on June 9, 2020.
AGENCY:
The Commission will provide
a limited opportunity for members of
the public to submit additional
comments on certain petitions for duty
suspensions and reductions. Under the
American Manufacturing
Competitiveness Act of 2016 (the Act),
the Commission must submit its
preliminary report on the petitions for
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duty suspensions and reductions that
have been filed with it to the House
Committee on Ways and Means and the
Senate Committee on Finance on June 9,
2020.
In that report, the Commission must
categorize each petition as either (a) a
petition that meets the requirements of
the Act with or without modification
(Category I, II, III, or IV petitions), (b) a
petition that does not contain the
information required by the Act or that
was not filed by a likely beneficiary
(Category V petitions), or (c) a petition
that the Commission does not
recommend for inclusion in a
miscellaneous tariff bill (Category VI
petitions). The Commission has decided
that it will accept additional comments
from the public on any petitions that are
listed as Category VI petitions for a tenday period beginning on June 12, 2020,
at 8:45 a.m. As provided below, all such
comments must be submitted to the
Commission electronically through the
Commission website https://
mtbps.usitc.gov. The Commission will
not accept comments filed in paper form
or in any other form or format.
DATES:
June 12, 2020, 8:45 a.m. EST: Opening
date and time for submission of
additional comments on Category VI
petitions.
June 22, 2020, 5:15 p.m. EST: Closing
date and time for submission of
comments on Category VI petitions.
ADDRESSES: All Commission offices are
located in the United States
International Trade Commission
Building, 500 E Street SW, Washington,
DC. You may view the public file for
this proceeding on the Commission’s
Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Petition
System (MTBPS) at https://
mtbps.usitc.gov.
For
general inquiries, contact Jennifer
Rohrbach at mtbinfo@usitc.gov. For
filing inquiries, contact the Office of the
Secretary, Docket Services, U.S.
International Trade Commission,
telephone (202) 205–3238. The media
should contact Peg O’Laughlin, Public
Affairs Officer (202–205–1819 or
margaret.olaughlin@usitc.gov). You may
obtain general information concerning
the Commission at https://
www.usitc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The American
Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of
2016 (the Act), 19 U.S.C. 1332 note,
established a process for the submission
and consideration of requests for
temporary duty suspensions and
reductions. As required by the Act, the
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Commission initiated the process by
publishing a notice in the Federal
Register permitting members of the
public to submit petitions for duty
suspensions and reductions to the
Commission during a 60-day period
beginning October 11, 2019 (84 FR
54924). After the period for filing
petitions closed on December 10, 2020,
the Commission published, as required
by the Act, a notice in the Federal
Register announcing publication on its
website of the petitions for duty
suspensions and reductions that were
submitted to the Commission and not
withdrawn (85 FR 1327). The notice
invited members of the public to submit
comments on these petitions during a
45-day period, which ended February
24, 2020.
Pursuant to the Act, the Commission
is required to submit preliminary and
final reports on the petitions to the
House Committee on Ways and Means
and the Senate Committee on Finance
(the Committees). The Commission’s
preliminary report must be submitted to
the Committees by June 9, 2020. In its
preliminary report to the Committees,
the Commission must evaluate each
petition to determine whether it meets
the requirements of the Act and should
be included in an omnibus
miscellaneous tariff bill.
In preparing its report, the Act
requires that the Commission take into
account the report of the Secretary of
the U.S. Department of Commerce
(Commerce), issued April 9, 2020. In
that report, the Secretary analyzed, for
each petition, whether there was
domestic production of the article that
was the subject of a petition, and, if so,
whether a domestic producer of the
article objected to the petition. Based on
consultations with U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (CBP), the Secretary
also recommended in that report
whether any technical changes were
necessary to make each petition’s article
description administrable.
In its preliminary report, the
Commission must place each petition
into one of six categories. Specifically,
the Commission must categorize each
petition as: (1) A petition that meets the
requirements of the Act without
modification (Category I petition); (2) a
petition that meets the requirements of
the Act with certain modifications
(Category II, III, or IV petitions); (3) a
petition that does not contain the
information required by the Act or was
not filed by a likely beneficiary
(Category V petition); or (4) a petition
that the Commission does not
recommend for inclusion in a
miscellaneous tariff bill (Category VI
petition).
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
[RR01114000, 20XR0680A5, RA.5221203.0019100]
Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and
Public Scoping Virtual Meeting Room for the Leavenworth National Fish
Hatchery Surface Water Intake Fish Screens and Fish Passage Project,
Chelan County, Washington
AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of intent; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) intends to prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Leavenworth National Fish
Hatchery (LNFH) Surface Water Intake Fish Screens and Fish Passage
(SWISP) Project. Reclamation is requesting public and agency comment to
identify significant issues or other alternatives to be considered in
the EIS.
DATES: The public will have the opportunity to participate in the
scoping process by providing written scoping comments, providing input
through a web-based virtual meeting room from April 24, 2020, to May
26, 2020, and/or participating in a question and answer teleconference
on May 18, 2020 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (PDT).
ADDRESSES: Provide written scoping comments, requests to be added to
the mailing list, or other special assistance needs to Mr. Jason
Sutter, EIS Team Lead, Bureau of Reclamation, Columbia-Pacific
Northwest Regional Office, 1150 N. Curtis Road, Boise, ID 83706 or
email [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For requests to be added to the
mailing list, or other special assistance needs, please contact Mr.
Jason Sutter, at the address or email provided in the ADDRESSES section
or by telephone at (208) 378-5390 or facsimile (509) 454-5650. Persons
who use a telecommunications device for the deaf may call the Federal
Relay Service (FedRelay) at 1-800-877-8339 TTY/ASCII to contact the
above individual during normal business hours or to leave a message or
question after hours. You will receive a reply during normal business
hours. Information on this project, including details for the public
question and answer teleconference, may also be found at: https://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/leavenworth/swisp/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Reclamation is issuing this notice pursuant
to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), 42
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.; the Council on Environmental Quality's regulations
for implementing NEPA, 43 CFR parts 1500 through 1508; and the
Department of the Interior's NEPA regulations, 43 CFR part 46. The
virtual meeting will be accessible at https://virtualpublic
meeting.com/leavenworth-swisp-eis. Website visitors will be able to
view public meeting materials, pose questions, view answers, and submit
comments. Please monitor the project website for any changes or updates
at https://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/leavenworth/swisp/.
Background
The LNFH was designed and constructed in the late 1930s as
mitigation for the construction of Grand Coulee Dam. The hatchery,
which is operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and
funded by Reclamation and Bonneville Power Administration, produces 1.2
million spring Chinook Salmon smolts annually that are released into
Icicle Creek.
The LNFH's primary point of diversion and water delivery system on
Icicle Creek is nearly 80 years old and is reaching or exceeding its
operational life. Rehabilitation, replacement, and modernization of the
LNFH surface water intake and delivery system was evaluated in the 2002
USFWS Icicle Creek Restoration Project Final EIS and the 2019 Icicle
Creek Water Resource Management Strategy Final Programmatic EIS
prepared by the State of Washington Department of Ecology and Chelan
County under the Washington State Environmental Policy Act. Currently,
the intake facility does not comply with National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS) criteria for anadromous salmonids. The 2017 NMFS
biological opinion covering LNFH operations requires the LNFH to have a
surface water intake and delivery system that complies with NMFS
current screening and fish passage criteria for anadromous fish passage
facilities in place and operating by May 2023.
In addition to meeting legal requirements, LNFH needs to improve
employee safety when operating and maintaining intake and delivery
facilities, improve flow control and water conservation capabilities,
effectively manage sediment adversely affecting the water delivery
system, and increase reliability and longevity of the system. The
purpose of the SWISP Project is to minimize take of ESA-listed fish
species, provide fish passage that complies with current regulatory
criteria, and ensure safe, efficient, and reliable delivery of LNFH's
full surface water rights from Icicle Creek.
Reclamation proposes to rehabilitate the LNFH intake and delivery
system on Icicle Creek by constructing new headworks and a creek-width
roughened channel, and replacing/lining the surface water conveyance
pipeline to the hatchery. In addition, the current intake access road
would be modified and extended to provide better entry to an expanded
intake operations and maintenance area. Construction of the headworks
and roughened channel would incorporate the existing low-head diversion
dam and intake channel. Self-cleaning, cylindrical fish screens would
be installed at the diversion headworks, and a low-flow boulder weir
fishway would be integrated into the roughened channel. A new pipeline
would be placed in the intake channel to connect the headworks to the
conveyance pipeline. The intake channel would be filled to cover the
pipeline and create the intake operations and maintenance area. The
conveyance pipeline would be replaced on USFWS lands and lined with
cure-in-place liner on private parcels. Several manhole access points
along the existing conveyance pipeline alignment would be constructed
to provide ingress and egress for pipe lining on private lands.
Reclamation is not presently aware of any known or possible Indian
Trust Assets, Indian Sacred Sites, or Environmental Justice issues
associated with the proposed action, but requests any information
relative to this issue be submitted during the scoping period.
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Reclamation intends to complete an EIS for this project pursuant to
the NEPA. The EIS will analyze the potential environmental effects of
the proposed action, a no-action alternative, and a reasonable range of
alternatives designed to respond to the purpose and need for the
project. The 30-day scoping process and the virtual meetings identified
in this notice are intended to inform the public about the project and
to request public and agency comment to identify significant issues or
alternatives to be addressed in the EIS.
Public Disclosure
Before including your address, phone number, email address, or
other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be
aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you may
ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be
able to do so.
Lorri J. Gray,
Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation, Interior Region 9--Columbia-
Pacific Northwest.
[FR Doc. 2020-08671 Filed 4-23-20; 8:45 am]
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