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Reclamation Releases Finding of No Significant Impact for Horsetooth Reservoir Facilities

Media Contact: Patience Hurley, (701) 221-1204, phurley@usbr.gov

For Release: November 12, 2015

LOVELAND, Colo. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for a Larimer County Parks and Open Lands Department (Larimer County Parks) proposal to construct new administrative and maintenance facilities. The project is located at Horsetooth Reservoir's South Bay Campground near Fort Collins, Colo.

Larimer County Parks manages the federal lands around Horsetooth Reservoir under agreements with Reclamation. The EA addresses changes in location and design for proposed administrative and maintenance facilities included in Reclamation's 2007 Resource Management Plan and Environmental Assessment that was prepared for Horsetooth Reservoir, Carter Lake, Pinewood Reservoir, and Flatiron Reservoir.

The Final EA and FONSI are available electronically at www.usbr.gov/gp/ecao/nepa/horsetooth_res_facilities.html

For additional information or to request a printed copy of the Final EA and FONSI, please contact Terence Stroh at 970-962-4369 or tstroh@usbr.gov.

For questions related to Horsetooth Reservoir Park, please contact Mark Caughlan, Larimer County Parks at 970-498-5600 or mcaughlan@larimer.org.

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