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Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6; 40 CFR 

1506.10. 

Bryan K. Fuell, 

Field Manager, Wells Field Office. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00067 Filed 1–8–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–HC–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

[RR02054000, 14XR0680A1, 

RX021489433320900] 

Notice of Public Review and Comment 

Period Extension for the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Central Valley Project Municipal and 

Industrial Water Shortage Policy, 

Central Valley, California 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation is 

extending the public review and 

comment period for the Central Valley 

Project Municipal and Industrial Water 

Shortage Policy Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS). The Draft EIS 

was initially noticed by Reclamation on 

November 19, 2014 and public 

comments were originally due on 

January 12, 2015. In response to public 

requests, the comment period is being 

extended until March 13, 2015. 

DATES: Send written comments on the 

Draft EIS on or before March 13, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments or 

requests for copies to Mr. Tim Rust, 

Bureau of Reclamation, Resources 

Management Division, 2800 Cottage 

Way, Sacramento, CA 95825, or via 

email to trust@usbr.gov. 

To request a compact disc of the Draft 

EIS, please contact Mr. Tim Rust as 

indicated above, or call (916) 978–5516. 

The Draft EIS may be viewed at 

Reclamation’s Web site at http://

www.usbr.gov/mp/cvp/mandi/

index.html. See Supplementary 

Information section for locations where 

copies of the Draft EIS are available for 

public review. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Tim Rust, Program Manager, Bureau of 

Reclamation, via email at trust@

usbr.gov, or at (916) 978–5516; or Mr. 

Michael Inthavong, Natural Resources 

Specialist, Bureau of Reclamation, via 

email at minthavong@usbr.gov, or at 

(559) 487–5295. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

comment period is being extended for 

the Central Valley Project Municipal 

and Industrial Water Shortage Policy 

draft EIS. On November 19, 2014, a 53- 

day public comment period was opened 

through notification in the Federal 

Register (79 FR 68912). In response to 

requests from the public, the comment 

period is being extended for an 

additional 18 days. The comment period 

will now officially close on March 13, 

2015. 

Background 

For background information, see the 

November 19, 2014, Federal Register 

notice. 

Public Review of Draft EIS 

Copies of the Draft EIS are available 

for public review at the following 

locations: 

1. Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific 

Region, Regional Library, 2800 Cottage 

Way, Sacramento, CA 95825. 

2. Natural Resources Library, U.S. 

Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street 

NW., Main Interior Building, 

Washington, DC 20240–0001. 

Public Disclosure 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Dated: December 17, 2014. 

Pablo R. Arroyave, 

Deputy Regional Director. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00155 Filed 1–8–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4332–90–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

[RR01113000, XXXR0680R1, 

RR.R0336A1R.7WRMP0032] 

Notice of Availability of a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Notice of Public Meetings for the 

Kachess Drought Relief Pumping Plant 

and Keechelus Reservoir-to-Kachess 

Reservoir Conveyance, Kittitas and 

Yakima Counties, Washington 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation 

and Washington State Department of 

Ecology have made available for public 

review and comment the Kachess 

Drought Relief Pumping Plant and 

Keechelus Reservoir-to-Kachess 

Reservoir Conveyance Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). 

The Draft EIS describes the potential 

environmental effects of the No Action 

Alternative and five action alternatives. 

The action alternatives examine 

constructing and operating a pumping 

plant to access up to 200,000 acre-feet 

of water in Kachess Reservoir during 

drought years and conveying it to the 

Kachess River for irrigation use within 

the Yakima Project, and constructing 

and operating a gravity flow tunnel from 

Keechelus Reservoir to Kachess 

Reservoir that could convey up to 400 

cubic feet of water per second to 

Kachess Reservoir. The action 

alternatives include activities to 

enhance the resiliency of bull trout 

populations in the Kachess and 

Keechelus watersheds as well as 

elsewhere in the Yakima River basin. 

DATES: Send written comments on the 

Draft EIS on or before March 10, 2015. 

Two public meetings will be held on 

the following dates: 

1. Tuesday, February 3, 2015, 4:00 

p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Ellensburg, WA. 

2. Thursday, February 5, 2015, 4:00 

p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Cle Elum, WA. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments or 

requests for copies to Ms. Candace 

McKinley, Bureau of Reclamation, 1917 

Marsh Road, Yakima, WA 98901; or via 

email to kkbt@usbr.gov. The Draft EIS is 

also accessible on the following Web 

sites: http://www.usbr.gov/pn/

programs/eis/kdrpp/index.html and 

http://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/eis/

kkc/index.html. 

The public meeting locations are: 

1. Ellensburg—Hal Holmes 

Community Center, 209 N. Ruby Street, 

Ellensburg, Washington 98926; 

2. Cle Elum—U.S. Forest Service, Cle 

Elum Ranger District, Tom Craven 

Conference Room, 803 W. 2nd Street, 

Cle Elum, Washington 98922. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Candace McKinley, 509–575–5848, ext. 

603; or by email at kkbt@usbr.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This EIS 

was previously identified in the Notice 

of Intent to Prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement as ‘‘Keechelus 

Reservoir-to-Kachess Reservoir 

Conveyance and Kachess Inactive 

Storage.’’ The name was changed to 

better reflect the proposed action 

evaluated in the EIS. 

The Draft EIS documents the potential 

direct, indirect, and cumulative 

physical, biological, and socioeconomic 

environmental effects that may result 

from the new pumping plant at Kachess 

Reservoir, water conveyance from 

Keechelus Reservoir to Kachess 


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Reservoir, and bull trout enhancements 

within the Yakima River basin. 

The Draft EIS evaluates construction 

and operation of two alternative designs 

and locations for the Kachess Drought 

Relief Pumping Plant, including 

reservoir intakes and tunnels, pumping 

plants and pump units, pipelines, surge 

tanks, outlet works, fish screens and 

barriers, power supply substations, and 

electric transmission lines. The Draft 

EIS also evaluates construction and 

operation of two alternative designs and 

alignments for the Keechelus-to-Kachess 

Conveyance, including the Yakima 

River diversion and intake, the Yakima 

River-to-Keechelus portal conveyance, 

fish screens, bored tunnels, discharge 

structures, spillways and stilling basins, 

and mechanical buildings. The fifth 

action alternative evaluates 

implementation of both the Kachess 

Drought Relief Pumping Plant and the 

Keechelus-to-Kachess Conveyance. All 

action alternatives include several 

proposals to improve streamflow and 

habitat functions, eliminate passage 

barriers, increase abundance, and 

improve overall resiliency of bull trout 

populations in the Kachess and 

Keechelus watersheds. 

The objectives of the proposals are to 

address conditions in the Yakima River 

basin including: (1) Fish impacts caused 

by high flows in the upper Yakima 

River; (2) insufficient capacity of 

Keechelus Reservoir to fully capture 

runoff in the Keechelus watershed; (3) 

currently inaccessible storage in 

Kachess Reservoir; (4) difficulty in 

refilling Kachess Reservoir during 

drought years; and (5) low resiliency of 

bull trout, an Endangered Species Actlisted species. 

The primary study area generally 

encompasses Kachess Reservoir and its 

tributaries, Keechelus Reservoir and its 

tributaries, the Kachess River, the 

Yakima River between Keechelus Dam 

and the Easton Diversion Dam near Lake 

Easton, the South Fork Tieton River, 

and the electric transmission line route 

from near Easton to the Kachess 

Reservoir pumping plant. The extended 

study area generally includes the 

Yakima Project vicinity. 

Reclamation is conducting feasibility 

studies for both the Kachess Drought 

Relief Pumping Plant and the 

Keechelus-to-Kachess Conveyance. 

After release of the DEIS for public 

review and comment, the Final EIS will 

be prepared and processed with the 

Final Feasibility Report to support 

decision making for any related future 

recommendation, approvals, or 

authorizations that may result. 

Authority 

The Kachess and Keechelus reservoirs 

were authorized on December 12, 1905, 

by the Secretary of the Interior in 

connection with the Tieton and 

Sunnyside Divisions of the Yakima 

Project. The Secretary was acting under 

authority of the Reclamation Act of June 

17, 1902. The Yakima River Basin Water 

Enhancement Project was authorized on 

December 28, 1979 (93 Stat. 1241, Pub. 

L. 96–162, Feasibility Study—Yakima 

River Basin Water Enhancement 

Project). Title XII of the YavapaiPrescott Indian Tribe Water Rights 

Settlement Act of 1994 (108 Stat. 4526, 

Pub. L. 103–434) authorized fish, 

wildlife, and recreation as additional 

purposes of the Yakima Project. 

Public Review of Draft EIS 

Copies of the Draft EIS are available 

for public review at the following 

locations: 

1. Bureau of Reclamation, ColumbiaCascades Area Office, 1917 Marsh Road, 

Yakima, Washington 98901. 

2. Washington State Department of 

Ecology, 15 W. Yakima Avenue, Suite 

200, Yakima, Washington 98902. 

Libraries 

1. Carpenter Memorial Library, 302 N 

Pennsylvania Ave., Cle Elum, WA 

98922. 

2. Ellensburg Public Library, 209 N. 

Ruby St., Ellensburg, WA 98926. 

3. Roslyn Public Library, 201 S. First 

St., Roslyn, WA 98941. 

4. Benton City Library, 810 Horne Dr., 

Benton City, WA 99320. 

5. Kennewick Library, 1620 S. Union 

St., Kennewick, WA 99338. 

6. Kittitas Public Library, 200 N. 

Pierce St., Kittitas, WA 98934. 

7. Mid-Columbia Library, 405 S. 

Dayton St., Kennewick, WA 99336. 

8. Pasco Library, 1320 W. Hopkins St., 

Pasco, WA 99301. 

9. Prosser Library, 902 7th St., 

Prosser, WA 99350. 

10. Richland Public Library, 955 

Northgate Dr., Richland, WA 99352. 

11. Sunnyside Public Library, 621 

Grant Ave., Sunnyside, WA 98944. 

12. Toppenish Library, 1 S. Elm St., 

Toppenish, WA 98948. 

13. Wapato Library, 119 E. 3rd St., 

Wapato, WA 98951. 

14. Washington State Library, Point 

Plaza East, 6880 Capitol Blvd. SE., 

Tumwater, WA 98504. 

15. West Richland Library, 3803 W. 

Van Giesen St., Richland, WA 99353. 

16. Yakama Nation Library, 100 SpielYi Loop, Toppenish, WA 98948. 

17. Yakima Valley Regional Library, 

102 N. 3rd St., Yakima, WA 98901. 

Special Assistance for Public Meetings 

If special assistance is required at the 

public meetings, please contact Ms. 

Candace McKinley, at kkbt@usbr.gov or 

509–575–5848, ext. 603. Please notify 

Ms. McKinley as far in advance of the 

meeting as possible to enable 

Reclamation to secure the needed 

services. If a request cannot be honored, 

the requestor will be notified. TTY users 

may dial 711 to obtain a toll-free TTY 

relay. 

Public Disclosure 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Dated: January 5, 2015. 

Lorri J. Lee, 

Regional Director, Pacific Northwest Region. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00153 Filed 1–8–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4332–90–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

[15XR5173F7, RX120560500000004, 

RR02142500] 

Notice of Availability and Notice of 

Public Meeting for the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement/

Environmental Impact Report for the 

North Valley Regional Recycled Water 

Program 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation 

and the City of Modesto have made 

available for public review and 

comment the North Valley Regional 

Recycled Water Program Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement/

Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR). 

The North Valley Regional Recycled 

Water Program would provide recycled 

water from the Cities of Turlock and 

Modesto via the Central Valley Project’s 

Delta-Mendota Canal to Del Puerto 

Water District for irrigation purposes, 

and would further provide annual 

supplemental water to south of the 

Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta 

Central Valley Project Improvement Act 

designated wildlife refuges for wetlands. 


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