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Reclamation Releases Draft Environmental Document for 2016-2018 American River Division Interim Water Service Contract Renewal for the Placer County Water Agency

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

For Release: December 01, 2015

FOLSOM, Calif. – The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review a draft environmental document for the proposed execution of a 24-month interim Central Valley Project (CVP) water service contract renewal for the Placer County Water Agency (PCWA).

Reclamation proposes to issue an interim CVP water service contract with PCWA to facilitate the annual delivery of up to 35,000 acre-feet of CVP water for municipal and industrial uses in Placer County. The term of the PCWA contract would be from March 1, 2016, through Feb. 28, 2018. Deliveries would be made through existing facilities, and no new construction is required as part of the Proposed Action. In the event a new long-term water service contract is executed, the interim renewal contract then in effect would be superseded by the long-term contract.

A Draft Environmental Assessment was prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act and is available at http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_projdetails.cfm?project_ID=23780. If you encounter problems accessing the document online, please call 916-978-5100 or email mppublicaffairs@usbr.gov.

Comments are due by close of business Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. Please email comments to John Hutchings at jhutchings@usbr.gov, mail them to: John Hutchings, Bureau of Reclamation, 7794 Folsom Dam Road, Folsom, CA 95630, or fax them 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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