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MIAD, Dikes 4, 5, and 6 to address static 

risks; and security upgrades at Folsom 

Dam and Appurtenant Structures (the 

Folsom Facility). 

The Folsom Reservoir currently 

provides water supply, flood control, 

hydropower, fish and wildlife, and 

recreational benefits. The proposed 

action will not change operations 

relative to water supply, flood control, 

hydropower, and fish and wildlife 

benefits, but will result in temporary 

disruptions of recreational activities at 

and near construction and staging sites. 

Availability of Copies of Folsom DS/ 

FDR Final EIS/EIR 

Copies of the Folsom DS/FDR Final 

EIS/EIR are available for public review 

at the following locations: 

• Bureau of Reclamation, Denver 

Office Library, Building 67, Room 167, 

Denver Federal Center, 6th and Kipling, 

Denver, CO 80225. 

• Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific 

Regional Office Library, 2800 Cottage 

Way, W–1825, Sacramento, CA 95825–

1898. 

• El Dorado County Library, 345 Fair 

Lane, Placerville, CA 95667–5699. 

• Folsom Public Library, 300 Persifer 

Street, Folsom, CA 95630. 

• Natural Resources Library, U.S. 

Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street 

NW., Main Interior Building, 

Washington, DC 20240–0001. 

• Roseville Public Library, 311 

Vernon Street, Roseville, CA 95678. 

• Sacramento Central Library, 828 I 

Street, Sacramento, CA 95814–2589. 

Additional Information 

Correspondence received in response 

to this notice will become part of the 

administrative record and is subject to 

public inspection. Our practice is to 

make correspondence including names, 

home addresses, home phone numbers, 

and email addresses of respondents, 

available for public review. Individuals 

may request that we withhold their 

names and/or home addresses, etc., but 

if you wish us to consider withholding 

this information, you must state this 

prominently at the beginning of your 

correspondence. In addition, you must 

present a rationale for withholding this 

information. This rationale must 

demonstrate that disclosure would 

constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of privacy. Unsupported 

assertions will not meet this burden. In 

the absence of exceptional, 

documentable circumstances, this 

information will be released. We will 

always make submissions from 

organizations or businesses, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, available 

for public inspection in their entirety. 

Dated: March 13, 2007. 

Kirk C. Rodgers, 

Regional Director, Mid-Pacific Region. 

[FR Doc. E7–5559 Filed 3–27–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

[DES–07–17] 

North Sonoma County Agricultural 

Reuse Project (NSCARP)—Sonoma 

County, CA 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability (NOA) of 

the Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement/Environmental Impact Report 

(EIS/EIR) and notice of public hearings. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969 (NEPA), and Public 

Resources Code, sections 21000–21177 

of the California Environmental Quality 

Act (CEQA), the Bureau of Reclamation 

(Reclamation), the lead Federal agency, 

and the Sonoma County Water Agency 

(SCWA), the local sponsor and CEQA 

lead agency, have made available for 

public review and comment a Draft EIS/ 

EIR for the NSCARP. 

The NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR describes 

a no action alternative (Alternative 1) 

and three action alternatives 

(Alternative 2, Alternative 3, and 

Alternative 4) that include numerous 

features that would create an 

agricultural irrigation system comprised 

of 19 recycled water storage reservoirs 

totaling about 11,200 acre-feet in storage 

capacity. In addition, NSCARP would 

involve the design and construction of 

approximately 112 miles of 

transmission pipeline and numerous 

pumping stations for conveying water 

from the Geysers Pipeline to the storage 

reservoirs, and for distribution of the 

storage recycled water from the 

reservoirs to approximately 21,500 acres 

of agricultural lands. 

As part of the NEPA/CEQA process, 

one public hearing will be held to 

provide interested individuals and 

organizations with an opportunity to 

comment verbally and in writing on the 

NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR. 

DATES: Comments on the NSCARP Draft 

EIS/EIR should be submitted on or 

before May 18, 2007 to Mr. David 

Cuneo, Senior Environmental Specialist, 

at the address below. 

The public hearing will be held on 

May 15, 2007 at 10 a.m. at Santa Rosa, 

CA. 

ADDRESSES: The public hearing will be 

held at: Sonoma County Board of 

Supervisors Meeting Room, 575 

Administration Drive, Santa Rosa, 

California 95403. 

Send written comments on the 

NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR to Mr. David 

Cuneo, Sonoma County Water Agency, 

P.O. Box 11628, Santa Rosa, CA 95406–

1628 (e-mail: david@scwa.ca.gov). Send 

requests for a compact disk or a bound 

copy of the Draft EIS/EIR to Mr. David 

Cuneo at the address above, telephone: 

(707) 547–1935, or e-mail: 

david@scwa.ca.gov. The NSCARP Draft 

EIS/EIR will also be available on the 

Web at: http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/ 

nepa_projdetails.cfm?Project_ID=2152 

and http:// 

www.sonomacountywater.org/projects/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Douglas Kleinsmith, Reclamation, 

Environmental Specialist, telephone: 

(916) 978–5034 or e-mail: 

dkleinsmith@mp.usbr.gov; or Mr. David 

Cuneo, Sonoma County Water Agency, 

telephone (707) 547–1935 or e-mail: 

david@scwa.ca.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR discusses the 

project background, purpose and need, 

project description and alternatives, and 

related projects. The Draft EIS/EIR 

addresses the impacts of project 

construction and operation on 

aesthetics, agricultural resources, air 

quality, biological resources, cultural 

resources, environmental justice, 

geology and soils, hydrology/water 

quality, land use, noise, population and 

housing, public health and safety, 

public services/utilities, recreation, and 

transportation and circulation. 

The NSCARP area encompasses 

portions of Sonoma County involving 

four geographical sub areas within the 

Russian River watershed: Alexander 

Valley, Dry Creek Valley, North 

Alexander Valley, and Russian River 

Valley, comprising about 46,000 acres. 

These four sub areas correspond to 

discrete service areas that would be 

served recycled water by sub areaspecific water storage and transmission 

facilities. 

Federal and state regulatory agencies 

have expressed concerns regarding the 

potential impacts to fisheries resources 

and habitat within the Russian River 

and its tributaries. These concerns have 

and will continue to result in increased 

scrutiny of future diversion of water for 

all uses. In 1996, NOAA Fisheries listed 

the coho salmon as threatened in the 

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watersheds pursuant to the Federal 

Endangered Species Act (ESA). Chinook 

salmon and steelhead trout were 

similarly listed in 1997 and 1999, 

respectively. Through the proposed 

distribution, storage, and use of recycled 

water for agricultural purposes, the 

SCWA has identified a strategy to 

reduce reliance on diversions from the 

Russian River and other natural 

waterways. 

The use of recycled water for 

irrigation for agricultural purposes has 

been occurring in California since 1890 

(California Recycled Water Task Force 

2003). By the year 2000, there were 234 

wastewater treatment plants providing 

recycled water for agricultural and 

landscape purposes in California 

(California Recycled Water Task Force 

2003). Today, recycled water in 

California is being used for a variety of 

purposes, such as irrigation for row 

crops, vineyard, pasture, stock feed, 

nursery products, turf in parks and 

schoolyards, and landscaping. In 

Sonoma County, the City of Santa Rosa, 

Town of Windsor, and the AirportLarkfield-Wikiup Sanitation Zone 

currently provide recycled water for 

irrigation of about 7,200 acres of 

agricultural land. 

The SCWA regulates the flow of the 

Russian River for the benefit of 

agricultural, municipal, and instream 

beneficial uses. The use of recycled 

water and conjunctive use of surface 

and groundwater supplies within the 

SCWA service area are all important 

factors in evaluating the management of 

the regional water supply. SCWA 

believes the use of recycled water to 

offset surface and groundwater sources 

used by agricultural entities in the 

Russian River, Alexander, North 

Alexander, and Dry Creek valleys to 

benefit fisheries in the Russian River 

watershed. The recycled water would be 

used for agricultural purposes 

consistent with the California Code of 

Regulations, Title 22, pertaining to the 

use of tertiary-treated recycled water. 

Copies of the NSCARP Draft EIS/EIR 

are available for public review at the 

following locations: 

• Sonoma County Water Agency, 404 

Aviation Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA 

95403. 

• Sonoma County Central Library, 

Third and E Street, Santa Rosa, CA 

95404. 

• Healdsburg Regional Library, Piper 

and Center Streets, Healdsburg, CA 

95448. 

• Windsor Regional Library, 9291 Old 

Redwood Highway, Windsor, CA 95492. 

• Guerneville Regional Library, 14107 

Armstrong Woods Road, Guerneville, 

CA 95446. 

• Forestville Library Station, 7050 

Covey Road, Forestville, CA 95436. 

• Cloverdale Regional Library, 401 N 

Cloverdale Boulevard, Cloverdale, CA 

95425. 

• Bureau of Reclamation, Denver 

Office Library, Building 67, Room 167, 

Denver Federal Center, 6th and Kipling, 

Denver, CO 80225. 

• Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific 

Regional Office Library, 2800 Cottage 

Way, W–1825, Sacramento, CA 95825–

1898. 

• Natural Resources Library, U.S. 

Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street 

NW., Main Interior Building, 

Washington, DC 20240–0001. 

Additional Information 

If special assistance is required at the 

public hearings, please contact Mr. 

David Cuneo at (707) 547–1935 (e-mail: 

david@scwa.ca.gov). Please notify Mr. 

Cuneo as far in advance of the hearings 

as possible to enable the SCWA to 

secure the needed services. If a request 

cannot be honored, the requestor will be 

notified. 

Comments received in response to 

this notice will become part of the 

administrative record and are subject to 

public inspection. Our practice is to 

make comments, including names, 

home addresses, home phone numbers, 

and e-mail addresses of respondents, 

available for public review. Individual 

respondents may request that we 

withhold their names and/or home 

addresses, etc., but if you wish us to 

consider withholding this information, 

you must state this prominently at the 

beginning of your comments. In 

addition, you must present a rationale 

for withholding this information. This 

rationale must demonstrate that 

disclosure would constitute a clearly 

unwarranted invasion of privacy. 

Unsupported assertions will not meet 

this burden. In the absence of 

exceptional, documentable 

circumstances, this information will be 

released. We will always make 

submissions from organizations or 

businesses, and from individuals 

identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, available 

for public inspection in their entirety. 

Dated: December 11, 2006. 

Kirk C. Rodgers, 

Regional Director, Mid-Pacific Region. 

This document was received at the Office 

of the Federal Register on March 22, 2007. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P 

INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND 

WATER COMMISSION, UNITED 

STATES AND MEXICO 

Notice of Availability of a Final 

Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact for 

Improvements to the Mission and 

Common Levee Systems, in the Lower 

Rio Grande Flood Control Project, 

Located in Hidalgo County, TX 

AGENCY: United States Section, 

International Boundary and Water 

Commission (USIBWC), United States 

and Mexico. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Final 

Environmental Assessment (EA) and 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI). 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969; the Council on 

Environmental Quality Final 

Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through 

1508); and the United States Section’s 

Operational Procedures for 

Implementing Section 102 of NEPA, 

published in the Federal Register 

September 2, 1981, (46 FR 44083); the 

United States Section hereby gives 

notice that the Final Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for Improvements to 

the Mission and Common Levee 

Systems, in the Lower Rio Grande Flood 

Control Project, located in Hidalgo 

County, Texas are available. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gilbert G. Anaya, Supervisory 

Environmental Protection Specialist; 

Environmental Management Division; 

United States Section, International 

Boundary and Water Commission; 4171 

N. Mesa, C–100; El Paso, Texas 79902. 

Telephone: (915) 832–4702, e-mail: 

gilbertanaya@ibwc.state.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The USIBWC is considering raising 

the 12.0-mile Mission Levee System and 

the 5.3-mile Common Levee System to 

meet current flood control requirements. 

The proposed action would increase the 

height of the levee up to 8 feet 

depending on location. The height 

increase would also result in expansion 

of the levee footprint by lateral 

extension of the structure. Levee 

footprint increases for both the Mission 

and Common Levee systems would 

occur within the USIBWC right-of-way 

and extend primarily toward the 

riverside of the existing levee. Along 

sections of the Mission Levee System, 

structural improvements such as slurry 

walls may be required in segments with 


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