[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 46 (Friday, March 9, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10785-10786]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-4250]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation


New Melones Lake Project Resource Management Plan/Environmental 
Impact Statement (RMP/EIS), Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties, CA

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of extension of the scoping period for the New Melones 
RMP/EIS.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation is extending the scoping period for 
the RMP/EIS to March 19, 2007. The notice of intent for the RMP/EIS was 
published in the Federal Register on December 18, 2006 (71 FR 75769). 
The scoping period was originally to end on February 16, 2007.
    During the scoping process, several individuals and organizations 
have indicated that submission of scoping comments by the February 16, 
2007 would be a difficult deadline to meet. To encourage additional 
public input, the public comment period has been extended.

DATES: Written comments on the scope of the proposed RMP/EIS should be

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received by close of business March 19, 2007.

ADDRESSES: Send your comments to Ms. Elizabeth Vasquez, Natural 
Resource Specialist, Central California Area Office, Bureau of 
Reclamation, 7794 Folsom Dam Road, Folsom, CA 95630, or e-mail to 
[email protected]

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Elizabeth Vasquez at 916-988-1707.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comments received in response to this notice 
will become part of the administrative record and are subject to public 
inspection. Our practice is to make comments, including names, home 
addresses, home phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of respondents, 
available for public review. Individual respondents may request that we 
withhold their names and/or home addresses, etc., but if you wish us to 
consider withholding this information, you must state this prominently 
at the beginning of your comments. In addition, you must present a 
rationale for withholding this information. This rationale must 
demonstrate that disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted 
invasion of privacy. Unsupported assertions will not meet this burden. 
In the absence of exceptional, documentable circumstances, this 
information will be released. We will always make submissions from 
organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying 
themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or 
businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.

    Dated: February 12, 2007.
John Fields,
Acting Regional Environmental Officer, Mid-Pacific Region.
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