[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 43 (Thursday, March 5, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 10865]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-5723]
=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Bonneville Power Administration
Select Area Fisheries Evaluation Project
AGENCY: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Department of Energy
(DOE).
ACTION: Notice of floodplain or floodway involvement.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: This notice announces BPA's proposal to place fish net pens,
pilings, and floating docks in floodplains or floodways located in
various bays, sloughs, channels, and tributaries of the lower Columbia
River. The goal of this program is to determine the feasibility of
creating or expanding select area, known stock fisheries in the
Columbia River basin to allow harvest of strong anadromous salmonid
stocks while providing greater protection of depressed fish stocks. In
accordance with DOE regulations for compliance with floodplain and
wetlands environmental review requirements, BPA will prepare a
floodplain assessment and will perform this proposed action in a manner
so as to avoid or minimize potential harm to or within the affected
floodplain or floodways. The assessment will be included with the
revised Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) being prepared for the
proposed project in accordance with the requirements of the National
Environmental Policy Act. A floodplain statement of findings will be
included in any finding of no significant impact that may be issued
following the completion of the revised FONSI.
DATES: Comments are due to the address below no later than March 20,
1998.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments to Communications, Bonneville Power
Administration--ACS-7, P.O. Box 12999, Portland, Oregon 97212. Internet
address: comment@bpa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Colleen Spiering--ECP-4, Bonneville
Power Administration, P.O. Box 3621, Portland, Oregon, 97208-3621,
phone number 503-230-5756, fax number 503-230-4089.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: An Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding
of No Significant Impact were issued in May 1995. BPA proposes to issue
a revised FONSI supporting the 1995 EA and including additional net pen
locations. Net pens may be placed in various bays, sloughs, channels,
and tributaries of the Columbia River including areas in Clatsop County
in the State of Oregon and Columbia and Wahkiakum Counties in the State
of Washington.
Maps and further information are available from BPA at the address
above.
Issued in Portland, Oregon, on February 25, 1998.
Nancy H. Weintraub,
Acting NEPA Compliance Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-5723 Filed 3-4-98; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450-01-P
