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Reclamation Releases Draft Environmental Documents for Proposed Warren Act Contract to Santa Clara Valley Water District

Media Contact: Erin Curtis, 916-978-5100, eccurtis@usbr.gov

For Release: May 08, 2015

FRESNO, Calif. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed five-year Warren Act contract to Santa Clara Valley Water District that would allow conveyance of up to 300,000 acre-feet of SCVWD’s available State Water Project water supplies through federal facilities at times when excess capacity exists (annually no more than 60,000 acre-feet). 

SCVWD’s available SWP supplies would be pumped at the Harvey O. Banks Pumping Plant and conveyed through the California Aqueduct to O’Neill Forebay. The water would then be pumped into San Luis Reservoir and conveyed through the San Felipe Division in the same manner that SCVWD receives its Central Valley Project water supplies.

The draft EA and FONSI were prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, and are available online at http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=21603. If you encounter problems accessing the documents online, please call 916-978-5100 or email mppublicaffairs@usbr.gov.

Comments are due by close of business Friday, May 22, 2015. Please email comments to Rain Emerson at remerson@usbr.gov or fax to 559-487-5397. Written comments may also be mailed to Emerson, Bureau of Reclamation, 1243 N Street, Fresno, CA 93721.

For additional information or to request a copy of the Draft EA/FONSI, please contact Emerson at 559-487-5196 (TTY 800-735-2929). Copies of the Draft EA/FONSI may also be viewed at Reclamation’s Fresno office at the above address.

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