Central Valley Project Municipal and Industrial Water Shortage Policy Scoping Report.

摘要

This report documents the Central Valley Project (CVP) Municipal and Industrial (M&I) Water Shortage Policy (WSP) scoping activities. The Bureau of Reclamation, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) lead agency, plans to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to analyze the potential effects of an update to the M&I WSP (Proposed Action). Reclamation previously developed a draft CVP M&I WSP in 2001 with input from CVP M&I Water Service Contractors, and prepared an Environmental Assessment in 2005 (2005 EA). Scoping is generally defined as early public consultation, and is one of the first steps of the NEPA environmental review process. Scoping activities involve the public, stakeholders, Indian tribes, and other interested agencies early in the environmental compliance process. The participation helps the action agency determine the range of alternatives, the environmental effects, and the mitigation measures to be considered in an environmental document.