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Reclamation Releases Draft Environmental Assessment for a Warren Act Contract with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Media Contact:
Erin Curtis, 916-978-5100, eccurtis@usbr.gov
For Release: February 17, 2015
FOLSOM, Calif. -- The Bureau of Reclamation released today for public review a Draft Environmental Assessment for the proposed execution of a five-year Temporary Warren Act Contract with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
The proposed contract with SMUD is to facilitate the delivery of up to 15,000 acre-feet per year of non-Central Valley Project water diverted from the American River at Nimbus Dam and conveyed through the Folsom South Canal to SMUD’s Rancho Seco CVP service area for Municipal and Industrial purposes. The water under this contract would be used by SMUD for its power generation operations.
A Draft EA was prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act and is available online at http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=20721. If you encounter problems accessing the document online, please call 916-978-5100 or email mppublicaffairs@usbr.gov.
Comments are due by Tuesday, March 3, 2015. Please email comments to John Hutchings, Bureau of Reclamation, at jhutchings@usbr.gov or mail comments to him at 7794 Folsom Dam Road, Folsom,
CA 95630 or fax comments to 916-989-7208.
For additional information or to request a copy of the Draft EA, please contact Hutchings at 916-989-7179 (TTY 800-877-8339). Copies of the Draft EA may also be viewed at Reclamation’s Folsom office at the above address.
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