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Reclamation Releases Environmental Document for the Upper Sacramento River Anadromous Fish Habitat Restoration Project

Media Contact: Shane Hunt, 916-978-5100, shunt@usbr.gov

For Release: November 25, 2015

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Environmental Assessment for the Upper Sacramento River Anadromous Fish Habitat Restoration Project.

The Project continues the work of improving spawning and rearing habitat for salmon and steelhead in the Sacramento River below Keswick Dam. This Project is one of many to help meet the requirements of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, Section 3406 (b)(13), to restore and replenish spawning gravel and rearing habitat.

The EA was prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act and is available at http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=23758. If you encounter problems accessing the document, please call 916-978-5100 (TTY 800-877-8339) or email mppublicaffairs@usbr.gov.

Written comments must be received by close of business December 9, 2015, and should be sent to Ben Nelson, Bureau of Reclamation, 801 I Street, Suite 140, Sacramento, CA 95814, emailed to bcnelson@usbr.gov, or faxed to 916-414-2439.

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