[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 213 (Tuesday, November 4, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59729-59730]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-29137]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

[DES97-40]
Bureau of Reclamation


East Bay Municipal Utility District Supplemental Water Supply 
Project, California

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability and notice of public hearing of the 
Draft Environmental Impact Report/Draft Environmental Impact Statement 
(DEIR/DEIS).

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 
1969 (as amended) and the California Environmental Policy Act (CEQA), 
the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) and the Bureau of 
Reclamation (Reclamation) have prepared a DEIR/DEIS for the proposed 
Supplemental Water Supply Project in Sacramento and the Bay Area 
service areas. Public hearings will be held in a number of sessions to 
receive oral or written comments on the DEIR/DEIS by interested 
parties, organizations, and individuals.

DATES: Public comments on the DEIR/DEIS should be submitted on or 
before January 5, 1998. See Supplementary Information section for 
public hearing dates and addresses.

ADDRESSES: Written comments on the DEIR/DEIS, requests for copies of 
the DEIR/DEIS, and requests to speak at the hearing should be addressed 
to Ms. Ann Reis, EBMUD P.O. Box 24055, Oakland, CA 94623-1055.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information, please 
contact Mr. Kurt Ladensack, EBMUD, (510) 287-1197; or Mr. Roderick 
Hall, Reclamation, (916) 989-7279.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EBMUD currently holds a contract with 
Reclamation, signed in 1970, for delivery of up to 150,000 acre-feet 
per year from the existing Folsom South Canal (FSC). The existing 
contract specifies a delivery location at an existing turnout structure 
near Grant Line Road in Sacramento County. The proposed action is for 
EBMUD to obtain a supplemental water supply to assist in reducing 
customer deficiencies during droughts, and providing system reliability 
and to allow EBMUD to make use of its existing contract with 
Reclamation for delivery of water from the American River. Two primary 
alternatives are under consideration, and alternate project 
configurations of one of these primary alternatives also are being 
considered.
    The first alternative is an EBMUD-only project that involves 
deliveries from the American River via FSC to a new pipeline connection 
between FSC in south Sacramento County and EBMUD's Mokelumne Aqueducts 
in San Joaquin County. Alternate project alternatives under 
consideration involve pipeline connections from the turnout location 
described above, which would not require an amendment of the existing 
water service contract, and from the terminus of FSC, which would 
require an amendment of the water service contract.
    The second alternative involves a joint project between EBMUD, the 
City of Sacramento (City), and the County of Sacramento (County). Under 
this project alternative, water for EBMUD and the County would be 
delivered through a new intake location on the American River near its 
confluence with the Sacramento River. Water for the City would be 
diverted under existing entitlements through an expansion of existing 
diversion and treatment

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facilities on the American and Sacramento rivers. A new pipeline would 
be constructed to convey the water to the City's E.A. Fairbairn Water 
Treatment Plant and to a point on FSC. Water for EBMUD would then be 
conveyed from that point through FSC to its terminus, where a new 
pipeline would be constructed to convey the water to EBMUD's Mokelumne 
Aqueducts.
    The DEIR/DEIS describes the environmental effects of taking 
delivery of water under EBMUD's contract from the FSC and from the 
lower American River near its confluence with the Sacramento River. 
Emphasis is directed toward potential effects related to American River 
fisheries, endangered species, Central Valley Project water users, 
pipeline construction, and biological resources in the EBMUD service 
area.

Public Hearings

    Public hearings to receive comments on the DEIR/DEIS will be held 
as follows:
     December 1, 1997, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the EBMUD 
Training Room, 375 Eleventh Street, Oakland, California
     December 3, 1997, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Littleton 
Community Center, 420 Civic Drive, Galt, California
     December 4, 1997, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Loel 
Senior Center, 105 South Washington Street, Lodi, California
     December 9, 1997, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Sequoia 
Elementary School, 3333 Rosemont Drive, Sacramento, California
     December 11, 1997, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Hart 
Senior Center, 915 27th Street, Sacramento, California
    Requests to speak may be made at the hearing; these speakers will 
be called upon in order at the meeting. Oral comments/presentations 
will be limited to 10 minutes per individual.
    The hearing facilities have disabled access, but there are no 
facilities for the deaf. A telephone device for the hearing impaired 
(TDD) is not available.

DEIR/DEIS Public Inspection and Review

    Copies of the DEIR/DEIS are available for public inspection and 
review at the following locations:

1. East Bay Municipal Utility District, 375 Eleventh Street, Oakland, 
CA 94607-4240.
2. Sacramento County Water Agency, 827 Seventh Street, Room 301, 
Sacramento, CA 95814.
3. City of Sacramento Utilities Department, 5770 Freeport Boulevard, 
Suite 100, Sacramento CA 95822.
4. Sacramento County Clerk-Recorder's Office, 600 Eighth Street, 
Sacramento, CA 95814.
5. Bureau of Reclamation, 2800 Cottage Way, Room E-1704, Sacramento, CA 
95825.
6. Bureau of Reclamation, Folsom Area Office, 7794 Folsom Dam Road, 
Folsom, CA 95630.
7. Library, Bureau of Reclamation, 6th Avenue and Kipling, Room 167, 
Building 67, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225-0007.
8. Natural Resources Library, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1849 C 
Street NW, Main Interior Building, Washington DC 20240-0001.
9. Sacramento Central Library, 828 I Street, Sacramento, CA.
10. Lodi Public Library, 201 W. Locust Street, Lodi CA 95240
11. Caesar Chavez Central Library, 605 N. El Dorado Street, Stockton CA 
95202.
12. Science, Social Science & Government Documents Department, Oakland 
Public Library, 125 14th Street, Oakland CA 94612.
13. Contra Costa County Clerk's Office, 730 Las Juntas, Martinez CA 
94553.
14. Alameda County Clerk's Office, 1225 Fallen Street, Oakland CA 
94612.
15. San Joaquin County Clerk's Office, 24 S. Hunter, Room 304, Stockton 
CA 95202.

    Dated: October 29, 1997.
Kirk C. Rodgers,
Deputy Regional Director.
[FR Doc. 97-29137 Filed 11-3-97; 8:45 am]
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