Hearings Program

Imperial Irrigation District – Long Term Transfer

WATER CONSERVATION AND TRANSFER PROJECT
HABITAT CONSERVATION PLAN
FINAL ENRVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT / ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
June 2002

CONTENTS

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1.0 Introduction

• 1.1 Overview of the Final EIR/EIS
• 1.2  Environmental Review Process
• 1.3  Report Organization of the final EIR/EIS
• 1.4  Evolution of the IID Water Conservation and Transfer Project
• 1.5  Environmentally Superior Alternative
• 1.6  CEQA/NEPA Compliance

2.0 List of Commenters

• 2.1 - Written and Oral Comments and Responses
• 2.2 - Federal Agencies
• 2.3 - State Agencies
• 2.4 - Regional Agencies
• 2.5 - Local Agencies
• 2.6 - Tribes
• 2.7 - Groups
• 2.8 - Citizens
• 2.9 - Public Hearings

3.0 Master Responses

• 3.1   - Selenium Mitigation
• 3.2   - Water Transfers to CVWD (QSA Implementation Scenario)
• 3.3   - Development of the Baseline
• 3.4   - TMDLs

• 3.5   - Approach to Salton Sea Habitat Conservation Strategy
• 3.6   - Impact Determination for Fish in the Salton Sea
• 3.7   - Timing of Implementation of Biological Mitigation Measures
  

• 3.8   - Mitigation for Salton Sea Sport Fishery

• 3.9   - Salton Sea Air Quality Monitoring and Mitigation Plan
• 3.10 - Air Quality Issue Associated with Fallowing
• 3.11 - Emissions from Construction of Conservation Measures
• 3.12 - Aggregate Emissions from the Salton Sea, Fallowing, and Construction
• 3.13 - Health Effects Associated with Dust Emissions
• 3.14 - Applicability of General Conformity Requirements to the Proposed Project or Alernatives
• 3.15 - Consistency with the State Implementation Plan for PM10
• 3.16 - Wind Conditions at the Salton Sea

• 3.17 - Property Values and fiscal Impact Estimates
• 3.18 - Crop Type Assumptions for Socioeconomic Analysis of Fallowing
  

• 3.19 - Cumulative Impacts
• 3.20 - Growth Inducement Analysis
• 3.21 - Desalinatiion and Water Conservation in SDCWA Service Area
• 3.22 - Relationship Between the Proposed Project and Salton Sea Restoration Project
• 3.23 - Relationship Between the Proposed Project and the QSA, IA, IOP, and CVWD Groundwater Management Plan

4.0 Errata

• 4.1 - Introduction
• 4.2 - Text Revisions
• 4.3 - Figure Replacements to the Draft EIR/EIS

5.0  Responses to Public Comments Received on Draft EIR/EIS

• 5.1 - Federal Agencies
• 5.2 - State Agencies
• 5.3 - Regional Agencies
• 5.4 - Local Agencies
• 5.5 - Tribes
• 5.6 - Groups and Organizations
• 5.7 - Citizens
• 5.8 - Public Hearings

6.0 References

Attachments

• A - Habitat Conservation Plan
• B - SDCWA, Urban Management Plan
• C - Stapleton Testimony
• D - Proposition C Text
• E - 1992 Memo of Agreement
• F - SANDAG Growth Management Strategy
• G - SANDAG 2020 Regional Forecast
• H - SANDAG and SDCWA Forecasting
• I -  IIDSS Model Overview

List of Tables

• 1-1 - Proposed Project Elevation, Salinity and Exposed area
• 1-2 - Summary of Salton Sea Habitat Conservation Strategy (HCP 2) on ProjectImpacts Associated with the Salton Sea
• 2-1 - Description of Group Categories
• 3.1-1  - Average Historical, Baseline, and Proposed Project Values for Selenium Concentrations (µg/L)
  
• 3.1-2 - Average Historical, Baseline and Proposed Project Values for the Proportion of Tilewater at the Rivers’ Outlets (percentage)
• 3.1-3 - Comparison Between Mass Balance Estimates of Mean Selenium Concentration at the Outlet of the New River
  
• 3.1-4 - Comparison Between Mass Balance Estimates of Mean Selenium Concentration at the Outlet of the Alamo River
  
• 3.2-1 - Introduction and Background
• 3.3-1 - Sensitivity Analysis of Key Baseline Assumptions
  
• 3.9-1 - Comparison of wind-speed frequency at 10 m above the ground surface for Salton Sea and Owens Lake
  
• 3.12-1 - Timing of PM10 Emission Source
  
• 3.16-a - Comparison of wind speed frequency at 10 m above the ground surface for Salton Sea and Owens Lake, Year 2000
  
• 3.16-1 - Wind Frequency Distribution for Niland, California – Year 2000
  
• 3.16-2 - Wind Frequency Distribution for Niland, California – Year 2001
  
• 3.16-3 - Wind Frequency Distribution for Owens Lake, California – Year 2000
  
• 3.17-1 - Imperial County Sales Tax Impacts of Proposed Project B ($ millions per year)
  
• 3.17-2 - Imperial County Sales Tax Impacts of Proposed Project D ($ millions per year)
  
• 3.18-1 - Pro Forma Cropping Cycle Patterns
  
• 3.18-2 - Comparative impact of fallowing individual crop categories relative to fallowing the full cropping pattern
  
• 3.21-1 - Best Management Practices for Urban Water Conservation in California
  
• 3.21-2 - Potential Water Conservation Savings Through 2020 Within SDCWA Service Area
  
• 3.21-3 - Programs to Encourage Recycled Water Use
  
• 3.21-4 - Projected Recycled Water Use

LIST OF FIGURES

• 1.1 (Page 1-7) Bathymetric Elevations at the Salton Sea for the Proposed Project
• 3.5-1 (Page 3-2) Salinity Projections in the Salton Sea Under the Baseline
• 3.5-2 (Page 3-3) Projected Mean Elevation of the Slton Sea Under Proposed Project and the Baseline
• 3.9-1 (Page 3-49) Relative abundance of major cations and anions at Salton Sea (Bertram Station,1996-2001) and in subsurface drainage water at Owens Lake (Agrarian andTree Rows sites, October 1998). Abundance for cations (sodium, calcium,magnesium, and potassium) is given as a percentage of the total cations, andfor anions (chloride, carbonate, bicarbonate, and sulfate) as a percentage oftotal anions (milliequivalents/liter)
• 3.16-1 (Page 3-73) Wind rose for Niland, California - Year 2000
• 3.16-2 (Page 3-77) Wind rose for Niland, California - Year 2001
• 3.16-3 (Page 3-81) Wind rose for Owens Lake, California - Year 2000
• 3.21-1 (Page 3-109) Treatment Plant Average Effluenent - TDS (MG/L)
• 3.21-2 (Page 3-113) San Diego County Wastewater Treatment and Water Recycling Facilities

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