Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 30.12.1997

Milltown Hill Project, Douglas County, Oregon

Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) proposes to prepare a supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Milltown Hill Project. The FEIS for the project was filed with the Environmental Protection Agency on August 14, 1992. Reclamation's Record of Decision (ROD) on the project was signed on November 7, 1992. The FEIS was prepared in conjunction with Douglas County's (County) application for a Small Reclamation Projects Act loan and grants to develop a dam and reservoir at the Milltown Hill site on Elk Creek above Drain, Oregon. To date, the project has not yet been implemented. Reclamation believes that due to the length of time since the ROD was signed, the recent listing of the Umpqua River (UR) cutthroat trout as an endangered species, and the subsequent jeopardy opinion received from the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) relative to the project's potential effects on the UR cutthroat trout, it is appropriate to reexamine the potential effects of the project to determine if there is any significant new information that bears on the proposed action