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Reclamation Makes Decision on Environmental Assessment for TC1 Canal Crossing Project, Fernley, Nevada

Media Contact: Jeffrey McCracken, 916-978-5100, jmccracken@mp.usbr.gov

For Release: October 05, 2007

The Bureau of Reclamation has signed a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the 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 in two locations.  This easement for the TC1 canal is within Reclamation’s Newlands Project, which is located in Fernley, Nevada.  

The City is proposing to construct a groundwater 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’s decision on the Final EA is to allow the crossings at the two locations referenced in EA.   

The Final EA and FONSI were prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act and are available at http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=2818.  To request a copy of the Final EA and FONSI or for more information on the project, please call Mrs. Caryn Huntt DeCarlo, Natural Resources Specialist, Lahontan Basin Area Office, at 775-884-8352 or email chunttdecarlo@mp.usbr.gov.

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