HomeMy WebLinkAboutEnvironmental Impact Statement_Report DEPARTMENT F T U.S.ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT,SACRAMENTO
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Environmental Resources Branch
TO ALL INTERESTED lea TIE :Enclosed for your review is the Public Draft Dost authorization Change Report and
programmatic Environmental I pactStatement/ Environmental Impact Report
(PA EIS/EI ) for the Sacramento River Bank Protection Project (Sly F ) Phase Il
Supplemental authority (proposed program). The proposed program would implement
up to 30,000 linear feet (LF) of additional bank protection in the Sacramento River Flood
Control Project (SRFP) area, as authorized by Section 3031 of the Water Resources
Development act Iia) of 2007. The proposed program spans portions of Butte,
olusa, Glenn, Placer, Sacramento, Solano, Sutter, Tehama, Polo, and Yuba Counties
in California. The U.S. Array grps of Engineers (Corps) is the federal lead agency for
this EIS/EI , and the Central galley Flood Protection Board ( VFP ) is the Mate lead
agency, pursuant to the National Environmental policy act avid tI . lifornia
Environmental Quality act, respectively.
The programmatic El' /EIR accompanying the PACR analyzes the environmental
effects associated with implementing bank protection measures along 60,000 LF of the
SRFCP to arrest or avoid area bank erosion that threatens the integrity of the RFP
levee system. Five programmatic action alternatives are proposed, consisting of
different combinations of the following measures: setback levees, adjacent levees,
riparian and wetland benches with revegetation, bank fill stone protection with on-site
woody vegetation, and bank fill store protection with no on-site woody vegetation.
Because streambl ank erosion is episodic and new erosion sites can appear each year,
the environmental analysis in the EIS/EIR is programmatic in nature, analyzing the
60,000 LF in its entirety, 'but relying on data associated with 106 representative sites in
order to provide the most detailed programmatic analysis possible. additional project®
level environmental documentation, tiering from the programmatic analysis, will be
prepared in the future to address specific sites that will be constructed,
The Public Draft PACR/EISIEIR is available on the USACE's website at:
hftp://www.spk.usace.army.mil/M'issions/CivilWorks/SacramentoRiverBankPro,tection.aspx
Copies are also available for viewing at the libraries shown on the enclosed sheet.
The Corps and the CVFPB will be hosting public workshops to present information
and to accept public comments on the a EI /EIR. The workshop meeting dates,
times, and locations are as follows:
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West Sacramento Colusa
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 Wednesday, January 21, 2015
4:00 to 6:00 pm 4:00 to 6:00 pm
Arthur F. Turner Community Library Colusa County Free Library
1212 Merkley Avenue 738 Market Street
Walnut Grove Chico
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 Wednesday, February 4, 2015
4:00 to 6:00 pm 4:00 to 6:00 pm
Walnut Grove Library Butte County Library
14177 Market Street 1108 Sherman Avenue
The closing date for submitting public review comments is February 27, 2015.
Comments should be submitted to the above address or sent by email to
SacRiverBank@usace.army.mil. All comments received on the draft document will be
considered carefully and incorporated into the final document, as appropriate. If you
have any questions or wish to request a copy, please contact Mr. Brian Mulvey;
Senior Fishery Biologist, at (916) 557-7660 or at Brian.M.Mulvey@usace.army.mil.
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Alicia E. Kirchner p
Chief, Planning Division
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Library List
The Public Draft PACRIEISIEIR is available for viewing at the following libraries:
Chico Sacramento
Butte County Library Sacramento City Library
1108 Sherman Avenue 828 1 Street
Chico, CA 95926 Sacramento, CA 95814
Colusa Walnut Grove
Colusa County Free Library Walnut Grove Library
738 Market Street 14177 Market Street
Colusa, CA 95932 Walnut Grove, CA 95690
Isleton West Sacramento
Isleton Library Arthur F. Turner Community Library
412 Union Street
Isleton, CA 954541 1212 Merkley Avenue
West Sacramento, CA 95691
Manfsville
Yuba County Library Willows
3032 Id Street Willows Library
Marysville, CA 95901 201 N. Lassen Street
Rio Vista Willows, CA 95988
Rio Vista Library Yuba Ci
44 S. Second Street Sutter County Library
Rio Vista, CA 94571 750 Forbes Avenue
Yuba City, CA 95991
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