9672

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9672
• Author: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
• Title: Final Environmental Assessment Orchard Mesa Wildlife Area Selenium Remediation Project.
• USFW Year: 2000.
• USFW - Doc Type: Grand Junction, CO.
• Copyright Material: NO

OMW A Selenium Remediation Project-Final Environmental Assessment

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nesting and winter wildlife. Mitigation for impacts to wetlands would be approved by the Service
and the Army Corps of Engineers.

Table 2 summarizes a comparison of impacts of the No Action and preferred alternative.

Table 2. Summary of potential impacts associated with the two alternatives evaluated in this
environmental document. Alternative 1 "No Action" and Alternative 2 "Pipe and Dilute" for the
Orchard Mesa Wildlife Area, Mesa County, Colorado.l!

Environmental Factor II Alternative 1 ( No Action) II Alternative 2
Recreation Resources 0 0
Land Use and Vegetation 0 --
Fish and Wildlife Resources --- ++
Threatened and Endangered Species --- +++
Water Rights and Water Uses 0 0
Historical and Cultural Resources 0 0
Indian Trust Assets 0 0
Environmental Justice 0 0
Reduces Selenium Concentrations No Yes

1/ (++) indicates some positive impacts;
(+++) indicates the greatest positive impacts;
(-) indicates some negative impacts;
(-) indicates the greatest negative impacts;
(0) indicates no known impacts.