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Reclamation Releases Environmental Documents for the Proposed Three-Year Extension of the Mendota Pool Group Exchange Agreements

Media Contact: Erin Curtis, 916-978-5100, 05/07/2015 14:48

For Release: May 07, 2015

FRESNO, Calif. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has released final environmental documents for the proposed execution of a series of one-year exchange agreements with the Mendota Pool Group and Donald J. Peracchi over a three-year period (2015-2018).

Under the proposed one-year exchange agreements, groundwater pumped annually into Mendota Pool, minus losses, would be used by Reclamation to offset existing water contract obligations at the Mendota Pool. Reclamation would then reduce Central Valley Project deliveries to the Mendota Pool by the quantity exchanged and make an equivalent amount of CVP water (up to 25,000 acre-feet per year) available to the Mendota Pool Group and Peracchi lands in Westlands Water District for irrigation purposes via the San Luis Canal.

The Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact 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=21181. If you encounter problems accessing the documents, please call 916-978-5100 or email mppublicaffairs@usbr.gov.

For additional information or to request a copy of the Final EA and/or FONSI, please contact Rain Emerson at 559-487-5196 (TTY 800-735-2929).

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