[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 192 (Friday, October 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51836-51837]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26295]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation

DEPARTMENT OF THE DEFENSE

Department of the Army
Corps of Engineers


Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement 
(DEIR/DEIS) for the Hamilton City Pumping Plant Fish Screen Improvement 
Project, Central Valley, CA

AGENCIES: Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior and the 
Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), the Army Corps of

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Engineers (Corps), the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District (GCID), and the 
California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) propose to construct the 
Hamilton City Pumping Plant Fish Improvement Screen Project. The 
project is in response to concerns over impacts to salmon and other 
fish species from water diversion operations at the Hamilton City 
Pumping Plant. Two public workshops to present material on the 
alternatives and to answer questions and a public hearing to receive 
comments from interested organizations and individuals on the 
environmental impacts of the project will be held.

DATES: Public comments on the DEIR/DEIS should be submitted on or 
before November 17, 1997. The public workshops will be held at the 
following locations:
     November 4, 1997, 1:00 p.m., Granzella's Inn, 391 6th 
Street, Williams, California
     November 4, 1997, 7:00 p.m., Hamilton High School, Highway 
32 and Canal Street, Hamilton City, California

ADDRESSES: Requests for copies of the DEIR/DEIS and comments on the 
DEIR/DEIS should be submitted to the Fish Screen Improvement Project, 
Draft EIR/EIS Comments, 455 Capitol Mall, Suite 600, Sacramento, 
California 95814, Attention: Rick Lind; telephone (916) 325-4050.
    Copies of the DEIR/DEIS are also available for public inspection 
and review at the following locations:
    1. Bureau of Reclamation, Room E-1704, 2800 Cottage Way, 
Sacramento, CA 95825-1898; (916) 979-5100.
    2. Bureau of Reclamation, Northern California Area Office, 
Attention: NCAO-320, 16349 Shasta Dam Blvd, Shasta Lake, CA 96019-8400; 
(916) 275-1554.
    3. Surface Water Resources, Inc., 455 Capitol Mall, Suite 600, 
Sacramento, CA 95814; (916) 325-4050.
    4. Bureau of Reclamation, Willows Construction Office, Attention: 
W-200, 1140 West Wood Street, Willows, CA 95988-0988; (916) 934-7066.
    5. Natural Resources Library, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1849 
C Street NW, Main Interior Building, Washington DC 20240-0001.
    6. Library, Bureau of Reclamation, 6th Avenue and Kipling, Room 
167, Building 67, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225-0007.
    7. University of California-Berkeley, Water Resources Center 
Archives, 410 O'Brien Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1718.
    8. California State University-Chico, Government Publications 
Center, Meriam Library, Chico, CA 95929-0295.
    9. Butte County Library, Publications, 1820 Mitchell Ave, Oroville, 
CA 95966-5333.
    10. Shasta County Public Library, Redding Main Branch, 1855 Shasta 
Street, Redding, CA 96001-0418.
    11. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1325 J Street, Sacramento, CA 
95814.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information, please 
contact Ms. Lauren Carly, Reclamation, (916) 934-7066; Mr. Matt Davis, 
Corps, (916) 557-6708; Ms. Sandra Dunn, GCID, (916) 446-7979; or Mr. 
Nick Villa, CDFG, (916) 358-2943.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Reclamation, the Corps, GCID and CDFG have 
prepared the DEIR/DEIS to analyzes the no-action alternative as well as 
three action alternatives. The action alternatives would minimize loss 
of all fish species in the vicinity of the pumping plant diversion 
while maximizing GCID's capability to divert the full quantity of water 
it is entitled to divert to meet its water supply delivery obligations. 
The agency preferred alternative would include an extension of the 
existing fish screen, internal fish bypasses, improvements to the 
intake and bypass channel, and a gradient facility.

    Dated: September 26, 1997.
Kirk C. Rodgers,
Deputy Regional Director.
    Dated: September 25, 1997.

Brandon C. Muncy,
Major, Deputy District Engineer--Civil Works.
[FR Doc. 97-26295 Filed 10-2-97; 8:45 am]
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