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Reclamation extended comment period for the draft environmental documents for Harris Farms and Shows Family Farms multi-year banking and transfer program
Media Contact:
Erin Curtis, 9169785100, eccurtis@usbr.gov
For Release: February 27, 2018
FRESNO, Calif. – The Bureau of Reclamation has extended the comment period to March 2, 2018 for the Draft Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed approval of annual transfers of up to 15,000 acre-feet per year of available Central Valley Project water supplies over a nine-year period.
Central Valley Project contractors would transfer water to Harris Farms and Shows Family Farms either for direct agricultural use on their lands located within Westlands Water District, San Luis Water District, and Semitropic Water Storage District, or for banking in Semitropic and/or the Kern Water Bank for later use on their lands within those same districts.
The documents are available at https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=32081.
Comments are due March 2, 2018. Please email comments to remerson@usbr.gov. Written comments may also be mailed to Rain Emerson, Bureau of Reclamation, South-Central California Area Office, 1243 N Street, Fresno, CA 93721 or faxed to Emerson at 559-487-5927.
For additional information or to request a copy of the documents, please contact Emerson at 559-487-5196 (TTY 800-877-8339). Copies of the documents may also be viewed at Reclamation’s Fresno office at the above address.
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