95-11350. Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement on the Western Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Project

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 89 (Tuesday, May 9, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 24648]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-11350]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation


Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement 
on the Western Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Project

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of cancellation.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and the California 
Department of Water Resources (DWR) are canceling plans to continue 
work under the National Environmental Policy Act and the California 
Environmental Quality Act on the environmental impact report/
environmental impacts statement (EIR/EIS) for the Western Suisun Marsh 
Salinity Control Project (Project), Plan of Protection for the Suisun 
Marsh, Phases III and IV. The EIR/EIS is being cancelled because it is 
unlikely that additional large-scale facilities are necessary for 
controlling salinity in the Suisun Marsh due to the provisions in the 
December 1994 draft Delta water quality control plan.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Will Keck, Mid-Pacific Region, 
Bureau of Reclamation, Attention: MP-401, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, 
CA 95825-1898; telephone: [phone]; or Mr. Dwight P. Russell, 
Environmental Services Office, California Department of Water 
Resources, 3251 S Street, Sacramento, CA 95816-7017; telephone: (916) 
227-7529.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The notice of intent was published in 55 FR 
47481, Nov. 13, 1990. The Project was aimed at lowering channel water 
salinity in the western portion of the Suisun Marsh. The construction 
of several ditches and culverts were being studied as part of the 
proposed action. With the release in December 1994 of the draft Water 
Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin 
Delta Estuary, and DWR's estimate of resulting salinity conditions in 
the Suisun Marsh, it is unlikely that additional large-scale facilities 
will be necessary for salinity control in the Suisun Marsh. DWR and 
Reclamation will evaluate if additional actions are needed for meeting 
western Suisun Marsh channel water salinity standards after the Suisun 
Marsh Ecological Work Group completes evaluating the basis for Suisun 
Marsh standards and recommends new standards.

    Dated: April 17, 1995.
Dan M. Fults,
Acting Regional Director.
[FR Doc. 95-11350 Filed 5-8-95; 8:45 am]
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