[env-trinity] Availability of draft EA for Trinity River channel rehabilitation project: Dutch Creek

[Held, Kevin]

Reclamation announces availability of draft environmental assessment for
Dutch Creek channel rehabilitation project
<https://www.usbr.gov/newsroom/newsrelease/detail.cfm?RecordID=63963>

Media Contact: Erin Curtis, 916-978-5100, eccurtis at usbr.gov

For Release: December 17, 2018

WEAVERVILLE, Calif. – The Bureau of Reclamation, Trinity River Restoration
Program, along with agency co-leads Bureau of Land Management and North
Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board and cooperating agency
Shasta-Trinity National Forest, announce the availability of a draft
Environmental Assessment/Initial Study for the proposed Dutch Creek channel
rehabilitation project.

The Trinity River Restoration Program is a multi-agency program with eight
partners forming the Trinity Management Council, as well as numerous other
collaborators. The TRRP implements the 2000 Department of the Interior
Record of Decision, which directs the Department to restore the Trinity
River fisheries impacted by dam construction and related diversions of the
Trinity River Division of the Central Valley Project. The TRRP proposes to
construct the Dutch Creek channel rehabilitation project to increase salmon
and steelhead habitat downstream of Lewiston Dam, and plans to implement
within the next two years. The draft EA/IS was prepared in accordance with
the National Environmental Policy Act and the California Environmental
Quality Act and is available at
https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=36421 or
http://www.trrp.net/. The documents are also available for review at the
TRRP office, 1313 Main Street, Weaverville, CA and the Trinity County
Library, 351 Main Street, Weaverville, CA.

Comments will be accepted up to 30 days after the anticipated Dec. 19, 2018
publication of the legal notice in the Redding Record Searchlight, which
would be on or around Jan. 18, 2019. Please email comments to
fgutermuth at usbr.gov. Written comments may also be mailed to Brandt
Gutermuth, Bureau of Reclamation, Trinity River Restoration Program, P.O.
Box 1300, Weaverville, CA 96093.

For additional information or to request a copy of the document, please
contact Gutermuth at fgutermuth at usbr.gov, 530-623-1806 or Kevin Held at
kheld at usbr.gov, 530-623-1809 (TTY 800-877-8339).

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