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Study Announced for Proposed 25-Year Extension of San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors Water Transfer Program; Public Scoping Meeting Scheduled
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Pete Lucero, 916-978-5100, 06/29/2011 11:44
For Release: June 29, 2011
The Bureau of Reclamation and the San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors Water Authority (Exchange Contractors) are preparing a joint Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) for a proposed 25-year extension (Proposed Action) of the current 10-year Exchange Contractors' Central Valley Project (CVP) water transfer program, which expires February 28, 2014. The Proposed Action contains some modifications in water development and use to the current program's water transfer portfolio. The Proposed Action's performance period is water years 2014 (March 1, 2014) through 2038 (February 28, 2039). Reclamation and the Exchange Contractors are lead federal and state agencies, respectively, for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Water transfers under the Proposed Action would occur between the Exchange Contractors and CVP and Non-CVP water contractors and wildlife refuges largely within California's San Joaquin Valley, but may also include water users south and east of the San Francisco Bay and east of Monterey Bay. The Proposed Action will allow the annual transfer of Exchange Contractors' CVP water to continue after February 28, 2014 (Water Year 2013). The Proposed Action considers additional water conservation derived alternatives under specified conditions.
A public scoping meeting to receive public and agency comments on the scope of analysis and EIS/EIR content for the proposed Program will be held in:
Los Banos - Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Miller & Lux Building1, 836 6th Street
If special accommodations are required, please contact Joann White at 209-827-8616 or e-mail jwhite@sjrecwa.net by Friday, July 1, 2011.
Comments on the proposed program may be submitted at the meeting or by close of business Wednesday, July 20, 2011, to Joann White, San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors Water Authority , P.O. Box 2115, Los Banos, CA 93635, fax 209-827-9703, e-mail jwhite@sjrecwa.net, or to Brad Hubbard, Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region, 2800 Cottage Way, MP-410, Sacramento, CA 95825-1898, fax 916-978-5290 or e-mail bhubbard@usbr.gov.
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