[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 197 (Thursday, October 9, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 59670]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-23963]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation


Southern Delivery System Project, CO

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Publication and Announcement of Public Hearing for 
the Supplemental Information Report (SIR) for the Southern Delivery 
System (SDS) Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS).

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), under the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, is announcing the opportunity for the 
public to review and comment on a SIR for the SDS Draft EIS. A public 
hearing to supplement the opportunity to comment on the SIR is also 
being announced. Reclamation previously published a notice in the 
Federal Register (73 FR 50055) on August 25, 2008, providing for 
extended public commenting on the water quality portion of the Draft 
EIS. Since then Reclamation has completed additional water quality 
analysis and is providing an opportunity for the public to comment on 
the new analysis. With this notice Reclamation is therefore closing the 
comment period on the original water quality analysis as mentioned in 
the August 25, 2008, notice and opening the comment period for the new 
water quality analysis. Reclamation has included this analysis in a SIR 
for the Draft EIS that updates and provides additional information that 
was not in the Draft EIS. The additional information includes, but is 
not necessarily limited to, the following topics: water quality 
analyses, potential effects on the western slope of Colorado, potential 
effects of a failure of new dams, effects of physical changes to the 
alternatives and reasonably foreseeable actions, clarification of 
Reclamation's purpose and need statement, changes in the project 
sponsors' Proposed Action, and identification of Reclamation's 
preferred alternative. The new and additional information is contained 
in the report titled ``Supplemental Information Report for the Draft 
Environmental Impact Statement, Southern Delivery System Project, 
Colorado.'' For access to the report and dates and locations of the 
public hearing, please see the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section in 
this announcement.

DATES: Reclamation will accept comments on the SIR during a 45-day 
comment period beginning with the date this notice is published. 
Comments must be received on or before November 24, 2008, in order to 
be considered.

Public Hearing

    Reclamation will hold a public hearing to receive oral and written 
comments on the SIR at the following time and place:
     October 29, 2008, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., Pueblo Convention Center, 
320 Central Main Street, Pueblo, Colorado 81003
    The meeting place is accessible to people with physical 
disabilities. People needing special assistance to attend and/or 
participate in the hearing should contact Kara Lamb at 970-962-4326 as 
soon as possible. To allow sufficient time to process special requests, 
please call no later than one week before the hearing date.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted in writing by facsimile, e-mail, 
or at the public hearing. Send comments to Supplemental Information 
Report, Southern Delivery System EIS, Bureau of Reclamation, Eastern 
Colorado Area Office, 11056 W. County Road 18E, Loveland, CO 80537. 
Send facsimiles to the attention of Kara Lamb at 970-663-3212. E-mail 
comments may be sent to [email protected] with SIR SDS Comment as the 
subject line.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kara Lamb, telephone: (970) 962-4326 
or FAX (970) 663-3212 or e-mail [email protected]. Mail requests should 
be addressed to the Bureau of Reclamation at the address provided in 
the ADDRESSES section.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SIR is available online at the http://www.sdseis.com Web site or by contacting Kara Lamb at the address 
above. Comments on the SIR would be added to those already received on 
the Draft EIS and will be considered in preparation of the Final EIS. 
For those people who have provided comments on the Draft EIS your 
comments do not need to be submitted again.
    Public Disclosure Statement: Before including your name, address, 
phone number, e-mail address, or other personal identifying information 
in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--
including your personal identifying information--may be made publicly 
available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold 
your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot 
guarantee that we will be able to do so.

    Dated: October 3, 2008.
Roxanne E. Peterson,
Acting, Assistant Regional Director, Great Plains Region.
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