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Draft EIR/EA Available for the Trinity River Restoration Program's Indian Creek Rehabilitation Site Project
Media Contact:
Jeffrey S. McCracken, 916-978-5100, jmccracken@mp.usbr.gov
For Release: August 03, 2006
The Bureau of Reclamation (the Federal lead agency) and the Trinity County Planning Department (the State lead agency) announce the availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Assessment (Draft EIR/EA) for the Indian Creek Rehabilitation Site: Trinity River Mile 93.7 to 96.5 (Project). The joint document is being prepared under guidance of the Trinity River Restoration Program (TRRP) and meets California Environmental Quality Act and National Environmental Policy Act requirements.
The Project would implement provisions of the Secretary of the Interior's December 19, 2000, Record of Decision (ROD) for the Trinity River Mainstem Fishery Restoration Environmental Impact Statement. Physical channel rehabilitation is identified in the ROD as a necessary step towards restoration of the Trinity Rivers anadromous fishery and fulfillment of the Federal government's tribal trust responsibility. The purpose of the proposed Project is to provide increased juvenile salmonid rearing habitat on the mainstem Trinity River and reduce impacts from the implementation of flows required by the ROD on homes and other improvements that are located adjacent to the Trinity River. The Project is expected to accomplish this by re-contouring bank and floodplain features starting in fall/winter 2006-2007 and completing in-channel modifications during summer 2007.
Trinity County has received financial support for Project implementation from the California Department of Fish and Game's Fisheries Restoration Grant Program and from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Targeted Watershed Grants Program. Trinity County is working as a partner agency under the EPA program with the Yurok Tribe and the Trinity County Resource Conservation District.
The Draft EIR/EA is available for a 45-day public review and comment period. It may be viewed on the TRRP website at http://www.trrp.net/RestorationProgram/IndianCreek.htm or on Reclamations Mid-Pacific Region website at http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=2094. The document may also be viewed at the TRRP Office, 1313 South Main Street, Weaverville, or the Trinity County Library, 211 North Main Street, Weaverville. If you have problems accessing documents online, contact Ms. Lynnette Wirth at 916-978-5102 or e-mail lwirth@mp.usbr.gov.
Comments must be received by close of business September 18, 2006, and should be sent to Mr. Brandt Gutermuth, Trinity River Restoration Program, P.O. Box 1300, Weaverville, CA 96093, or e-mailed to bgutermuth@mp.usbr.gov. For further information or to request a copy of the Draft EIR/EA, please contact Mr. Gutermuth at 530-623-1806.
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