[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 223 (Friday, November 17, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 69572]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-29456]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CA-690-00-5101-01-B109; CACA-CACA-40467]


Proposed Cadiz Groundwater Storage Dry-Year Supply Program, 
Pipeline Right of Way and Plan Amendment

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, Needles 
Field Office, Desert District, California.

ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting on the Supplemental Draft 
Environmental Impact Statement.

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SUMMARY: A public meeting on the Supplement to the Draft Environmental 
Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) for the Cadiz 
Groundwater Storage Dry-Year Supply Program is scheduled for November 
29, 2000 at 7:00 p.m. in the Twentynine Palms City Hall, 6132 Adobe 
Road, Twentynine Palms, CA. The Supplement was prepared in response to 
comments about groundwater resources and related air quality issues. It 
provides more information and presents a Groundwater Monitoring and 
Management Plan (Plan) that is part of the proposed project. The Plan 
would govern water storage and extraction operations, including the 
amount of indigenous groundwater that may be extracted over the 
project's 50-year life. Metropolitan Water District (MWD) and the 
Bureau of Land Management jointly prepared the Supplement, with the 
National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey as cooperating 
agencies.
    The 45-day public review period for the Supplement ends December 4, 
2000. Copies may be reviewed at Metropolitan's headquarters in Los 
Angeles, BLM offices in Riverside and Needles, the Norman Feldhyme 
Library in San Bernardino, and the Needles, Twentynine Palms and 
Barstow Branch Libraries. Written comments may be submitted to Mr. Jack 
Safely, MWD, PO Box 54153, Los Angeles, CA 90054-0153 or Mr. James 
Williams, Bureau of Land Management, 6221 Box Springs Blvd., Riverside, 
CA 92507-0714.

DATES: Public Meeting November 29, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Twentynine Palms City Hall, 6132 Adobe Road, Twentynine 
Palm, CA.

TIME: 7:00 p.m.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT: Further information regarding the 
project may be obtained from Mr. Jack Safely of MWD at (213) 217-6981 
or James Williams of BLM at (909) 697-5390.

    Dated: November 13, 2000.
Alan Stein,
Acting District Manager.
[FR Doc. 00-29456 Filed 11-16-00; 8:45 am]
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