[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 43 (Thursday, March 5, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 10865]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-5723]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Bonneville Power Administration


Select Area Fisheries Evaluation Project

AGENCY: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Department of Energy 
(DOE).

ACTION: Notice of floodplain or floodway involvement.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces BPA's proposal to place fish net pens, 
pilings, and floating docks in floodplains or floodways located in 
various bays, sloughs, channels, and tributaries of the lower Columbia 
River. The goal of this program is to determine the feasibility of 
creating or expanding select area, known stock fisheries in the 
Columbia River basin to allow harvest of strong anadromous salmonid 
stocks while providing greater protection of depressed fish stocks. In 
accordance with DOE regulations for compliance with floodplain and 
wetlands environmental review requirements, BPA will prepare a 
floodplain assessment and will perform this proposed action in a manner 
so as to avoid or minimize potential harm to or within the affected 
floodplain or floodways. The assessment will be included with the 
revised Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) being prepared for the 
proposed project in accordance with the requirements of the National 
Environmental Policy Act. A floodplain statement of findings will be 
included in any finding of no significant impact that may be issued 
following the completion of the revised FONSI.

DATES: Comments are due to the address below no later than March 20, 
1998.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments to Communications, Bonneville Power 
Administration--ACS-7, P.O. Box 12999, Portland, Oregon 97212. Internet 
address: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Colleen Spiering--ECP-4, Bonneville 
Power Administration, P.O. Box 3621, Portland, Oregon, 97208-3621, 
phone number 503-230-5756, fax number 503-230-4089.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: An Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding 
of No Significant Impact were issued in May 1995. BPA proposes to issue 
a revised FONSI supporting the 1995 EA and including additional net pen 
locations. Net pens may be placed in various bays, sloughs, channels, 
and tributaries of the Columbia River including areas in Clatsop County 
in the State of Oregon and Columbia and Wahkiakum Counties in the State 
of Washington.
    Maps and further information are available from BPA at the address 
above.

    Issued in Portland, Oregon, on February 25, 1998.
Nancy H. Weintraub,
Acting NEPA Compliance Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-5723 Filed 3-4-98; 8:45 am]
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