WEAVERVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, Trinity River Restoration Program, along with co-lead agency Bureau of Land Management, cooperating agency U.S. Forest Service, and state lead agency North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, seek public input on a draft Environmental Assessment/Initial Study for the proposed Chapman Ranch Phase B channel rehabilitation project.
The TRRP’s multi-agency program’s eight partners form 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 Chapman Ranch Phase B channel rehabilitation project to increase salmon and steelhead habitat downstream of Lewiston Dam, and plans to implement the project in summer 2021. The Phase B project will complement the Phase A project constructed in 2019.
The draft EA/IS are available at https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=43664, on BLM’s website at https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/planAndProjectSite.do?methodName=renderDefaultPlanOrProjectSite&projectId=1505406&dctmId=0b0003e8816068f4 and on the TRRP website at https://www.trrp.net/. Copies of the document may also be obtained by calling or writing to the individual listed below.
Comments will be accepted up to 30 days after the date of posting through June 21, 2020. Please submit written comments to Megan Simon at msimon@usbr.gov or mail to TRRP, attention Chapman Ranch Phase B at P.O. Box 1300, Weaverville, CA 96093.
For additional information or to request a copy of the document, please contact Simon at msimon@usbr.gov or 530-247-8513 (TTY 800-877-8339).
Source: Bureau of Reclamation
