9580

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9580
• Author: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
• Title: Final Environmental Impact Statement - Navajo Reservoir Operations Volume 1.
• USFW Year: 2006.
• USFW - Doc Type: Grand Junction - Durango, CO.
• Copyright Material: NO

FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
- NAVAJO RESERVOIR OPERATIONS
Navajo Unit - San Juan River
New Mexico, Colorado, Utah
• Prepared by the U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Region,
Western Colorado Area Office, Grand Junction, Colorado
in Cooperation with Federal Agencies and Tribal, State, and Local Governments
This Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for Navajo Reservoir Operations has
been prepared in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). It has
- been prepared by the Department of the Interior through the Bureau of Reclamation
(Reclamation) and in cooperation with the following: Bureau of Indian Affairs; Bureau
of Land Management; Corps of Engineers; Environmental Protection Agency; Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission; Fish and Wildlife Service; National Park Service;
- Jicarilla Apache Nation; Southern Ute Indian Tribe; Navajo Nation; Ute Mountain Ute
Tribe; Colorado Water Conservation Board; New Mexico Department of Game and Fish;
New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission; New Mexico Environment Department;
- City of Farmington; San Juan Water Commission; and Southwestern Water Conservation
- District.
The HIS evaluates the potential impacts of implementing the San Juan River Basin
- Recovery Implementation Program's Flow Recommendations for the San Juan River (Flow
- Recommendations) (1999) or a reasonable alternative to those recommendations. To
accomplish this action, Reclamation would continue to operate Navajo Dam to meet
authorized project purposes while modifying reservoir release patterns to meet Flow
- Recommendations designed to maintain or improve habitat, in concert with the San Juan
- River Recovery Program, for the razorback sucker and Colorado pikeminnow.
Seven alternatives were evaluated in the FEIS. Most of the alternatives formulated for
- evaluation are described in term of flow rates representing minimum and maximum limits
- in cubic feet per second in the range of release rates from Navajo Dam.
For further information regarding this FEIS, contact Mr. Pat Page, Bureau of
- Reclamation, Western Colorado Area Office, 835 East Second Avenue, Suite 300,
• Durango, Colorado 81301; telephone: [phone].
Final Environmental Impact Statement No. FES-06-06
- Date Filed with EPA: APR 7 006