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Reclamation Solicits Comments on City of Fernley and Southwest Gas Corporation Pipeline Crossing Project
Media Contact:
Jeffrey McCracken, 916-978-5100, jmccracken@mp.usbr.gov
For Release: July 30, 2007
The Bureau of Reclamation is preparing a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) on the impacts of allowing the City of Fernley (City) and Southwest Gas Corporation to cross a 60-foot-wide Reclamation irrigation canal easement. This easement for the TC1 canal is within Reclamations Newlands Project, which is located in Nevada.
The City is proposing to construct a water treatment plant for City water supplies. The crossings of the TC1 canal easement are needed for installation of two culverts and short sections of a road extension, a road widening, and buried pipelines. Reclamation is requesting public participation and comments on the environmental process to help identify any potential environmental issues, concerns, and alternatives that should be addressed in the EA.
e-mailed to chunttdecarlo@mp.usbr.gov.
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