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Reclamation releases final 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: June 08, 2018

FRESNO, Calif. – The Bureau of Reclamation has issued final environmental documents 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 Final Environmental Assessment and Finding Of No Significant Impact were prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, and are available at https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=32081.

For additional information or to request a copy of the Final EA and/or FONSI, please contact Rain Emerson at 559-487-5196 (TTY 877-8339).

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