Zasoby i środowisko · 10/27/2014

Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement for a Proposed Amendment to the Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan/Natural Communities Conservation Plan, Riverside County, CA

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the availability of our final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report/ Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) to the approved and certified September 2007 Final Recirculated EIR/EIS for the Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan/Natural Communities Conservation Plan (CVMSHCP, or Plan), in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), and its implementing regulations, as well as in compliance with the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). The final Supplemental EIR/EIS considers the environmental effects associated with adding Desert Hot Springs and Mission Springs Water District (MSWD) as Permittees to the CVMSHCP, and amending the existing incidental take permit.