Final Environmental Impact Statement Volume I, Main Text and Appendices A-J

• Description: related to the Platte River Endangered Species Partnership ‎(aka Platte River Recovery Implementation Program or PRRIP)‎
• State: NE
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 7/1/1998
• Author: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ‎(FERC)‎ Office of Hydropower Licensing
• Title: Final Environmental Impact Statement ‎(EIS)‎ - Volume I, Main Text and Appendices A-J - Kingsley Dam ‎(FERC Project No. 1417)‎ and North Platte/Keystone Dam ‎(FERC Project No. 1835)‎ Projects, Nebraska, FERC/FEIS-0063
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

CONTENTS (continued)
3.9.1 Background 3 -86
3.9.2 Cultural Resources Inventory 3 -87
4. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS 4 -1
4.1 WATER USE AND QUALITY
4-4
4. 1.1 Operating Regime Effects
4 -4
4.1.2 Nonoperating Regime Effects
4 -19
4.2 CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY
4 -33
4.2.1 Operating Regime Effects
4 -33
4.2.2 Nonoperating Regime Effects
4 -36
4.3 AQUATIC RESOURCES
4 -40
4.3.1 Operating Regime Effects
4 -40
4.3.2 Nonoperating Regime Effects
4 -51
4.4 WILDLIFE AND BOTANICAL RESOURCES
4 -56
4.4.1 Operating Regime Effects
4 -56
4.4.2 Nonoperating Regime Effects
4 -77
4.5 AGRICULTURE AND OTHER LAND USES
4 -89
4.5.1 Operating Regime and Nonoperating Regime Effects
4 -89
4.5.2 Consistency with Comprehensive Plans
4 -93
4.6 RECREATION
4 -96
4.6.1 Operating Regime Effects
4 -96
4.6.2 Nonoperating Regime Effects
4 -100
4.7 CULTURAL RESOURCES
4 -104
4.7.1 Operating Regime and Nonoperating Regime Effects
4 -104
4.7.2 Cultural Resources Protection Program
4 -106
4.8 BASIN -WIDE ALTERNATIVE, INTERIOR PLAN (PROGRAM)
4 -108
4.8.1 Water Use and Quality
4 -108
4.8.2 Channel Morphology
4 -115
4.8.3 Aquatic Resources
4 -117
4.8.4 Wildlife and Botanical Resources
4 -121
4.8.5 Agriculture and Other Land Uses
4 -129
4.8.6 Recreation
4 -131
4.8.7 Cultural Resources
4 -132
4.8.8 Effects Under Fall Back Scenarios
4 -133
4.9 UNAVOIDABLE ADVERSE IMPACTS
4 -134
4.9.1 Water Use and Quality
4 -134
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