DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT: RIVER ISLANDS AT LATHROP, PHASE 2B VOLUME 2 October 2014 US Army Corps of Engineers Appendix A – EIS Distribution, Noticing, and Scoping Appendix A-1 EIS Distribution and Noticing Appendix A‐1. EIS Distribution and Noticing 1 of 2 Name Title Organization Address PO Box City, Zip Code Phone E‐mail Community Development Agency Alameda County 399 Elmhurst Street, Room 136 Hayward, CA 94544 Planning Department Amador County 500 Argonaut Lane Jackson, CA 95642 AT&T 44 West Yokuts Stockton, CA 95205 Bill Draa Superintendent Banta Elementary School District 22375 El Rancho Rd Tracy, CA 95304 209‐835‐0843 Baykeeper, Deltakeeper Chapter 785 Market Street, Suite 850 San Francisco, CA 94103 Alicia Guerra Briscoe Ivester & Bazel 155 Sansome St, 7th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 415‐402‐[email protected] Building Association of the Delta 509 Weber #410 Stockton, CA 95203 Mid California Office Bureau of Reclamation 7794 Folsom Dam Road Folsom, CA 95630 Planning Department Calaveras County 891 Mountain Ranch Road San Andreas, CA 95249 Ramon Batista Califia LLC (dba River Islands at Lathrop) 73 W. Stewart Road Lathrop, CA 95330 209‐879‐[email protected]  Susan Dell'Osso Project Director Califia LLC (dba River Islands at Lathrop) 73 W. Stewart Road Lathrop, CA 95330 209‐879‐[email protected] California Air Resources Board PO Box 2815  Sacramento, CA 95812 School Facility Planning California Department of Education 1430 N Street Sacramento, CA 95814 California Department of Fish and Game 1416 9th Street Sacramento, CA 95814 California Department of Toxic Substances Control PO Box 806 Sacramento, CA 95812 Tom Dumas Chief California Department of Transportation 1976 East Charter Way PO Box 2048 Stockton, CA 95201 209‐941‐1921 California Department of Water Resources PO Box 942836Sacramento, CA 94236 Bill Jennings Executive Director California Sportfishing Protection Alliance 3536 Rainier Avenue Stockton, CA 95204 Bill Martin Central Valley Farm Trust 8788 Elk Grove Blvd, Building 1, Suite 1 Elk Grove, CA 95624 Jay Punia General Manager Central Valley Flood Protection Board 3310 El Camino Avenue, Room 151 Sacramento, CA 95821 916‐574‐[email protected] Patricia Leary Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board 3443 Routier Road, Suite A Sacramento, CA 95827‐3003 916‐255‐3000 Timothy R. O'Brien Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board 3443 Routier Road, Suite A Sacramento, CA 95827‐3003 916‐255‐3000 Cary Keaton City Manager City of Lathrop 390 Towne Centre Dr Lathrop, CA 95330 209‐941‐[email protected] Charlie Mullen Principal Planner City of Lathrop 390 Towne Centre Dr Lathrop, CA 95330 209‐941‐[email protected]  Steve Salvatore Community Development Director City of Lathrop 390 Towne Centre Dr Lathrop, CA 95330 209‐941‐[email protected] Tom Ruark City Engineer City of Lathrop 390 Towne Centre Dr Lathrop, CA 95330 [email protected]  Planning Department City of Ripon 259 North Wilma Avenue Ripon, CA 95366 Community Development Department City of Tracy 520 Tracy Boulevard Tracy, CA 95376 Community Development Department Contra Costa County 651 Pine Street, 4th Floor, North Wing Martinez, CA 94533 Linda Fiack Executive Director Delta Protection Commission 14215 River Road PO Box 530 Walnut Grove, CA 95690 916‐776‐[email protected] Dennis J. O'Bryant Acting Assistant Director Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource Protection 801 K Street, MS‐1801 Sacramento, CA 95814 916‐324‐0850 Dr. Tom Williams Managing Director Dubai Isles Development 700A Howe Street San Mateo, CA 94401 650‐558‐[email protected] FEMA Region IX 1111 Broadway, Suite 1200 Oakland, CA 94602 Steve Herum Herum Crabtree Brown 2291 West March Lane, Suite B100 Stockton, CA 95207 Susan Dell'Osso President Island Reclamation District No. 2062 16976 S. Harlan Road Lathrop, CA 95330 209‐858‐2040 Lathrop Chamber of Commerce 16976 S. Harlan Road Lathrop, CA 95330 Fred Manding Fire Marshal Lathrop‐Manteca Fire District 800 J Street Lathrop, CA 95330 209‐858‐2331 Dennis L. Hay Law Offices of Mehlhaff & Hay 23950 South Chrisman Road, Suite A PO Box 1129 Tracy, CA 95378‐1129 Benjamin J. Cantu Advanced Planning Manager Manteca Community Development Department 1001 West Center Street Manteca, CA 95337 Ric Reinhardt Principal MBK 1771 Tribute Way Sacramento, CA 95815 916‐456‐[email protected] Thomas J. Rosten District Engineer Mossdale Reclamation District No. 2107 227 Alvarado Way Tracy, CA 95376 209‐836‐0829 National Marine Fisheries Service 501 Ocean Blvd Long Beach, CA 90802 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 1401 Constitution Ave, Room 5128 Washington, DC 20230 Richard Roos‐Collins Senior Attorney Natural Heritage Institute 100 Pine Street, Suite 1550 San Francisco, CA 94111 Monte Schmidt San Joaquin River Project Manager Natural Resources Defense Council 111 Sutter Street, 20th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Northern California Water Agencies 455 Capitol Mall #335 Sacramento, CA 95814 Pacific Gas and Electric Company 2730 Gateway Oaks Dr, Suite 220 Sacramento, CA 95833 Henry Long President Reclamation District No. 17 1812 Burnside Way Stockton, CA 95207 209‐478‐1696 Community Development Department Sacramento County 827 7th Street, Room 230 Sacramento, CA 95814 San Joaquin Audubon Society PO Box 7755  Stockton ,CA 95217 Planning Division San Joaquin County Council of Governments 222 East Weber Avenue Stockton, CA 95202 209‐235‐0600 San Joaquin County Environmental Health Department 304 Weber Avenue, Third Floor Stockton, CA 95202 San Joaquin County LAFCO 1860 East Hazelton Ave Stockton, CA 95205 Wendy Johnson Environmental Coordinator San Joaquin County Public Works 1810 East Hazelton Avenue Stockton, CA 95205 209‐468‐3085 San Joaquin Partnership 2800 W. March Lane #470 Stockton, CA 95219 Stacey Mortensen San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission 949 East Channel Street Stockton, CA 95202 John Cadrett Air Quality Planner, Northern Region San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District 4230 Kiernan Avenue, Suite 130 Modesto, CA 95356 209‐557‐6400 Planning and Development Department Santa Clara County 70 West Hedding, 7th Floor, East Wing San Jose, CA 95110 Eric Parfrey Chair Sierra Club, Mother Lode Chapter 1421 W. Willow Street Stockton, CA 95203 209‐462‐7079Eric@baseline‐env.com Resource Management Department Solano County  675 Texas Street #550 Fairfield, CA 94533 John Herrick South Delta Water Agency 4255 Pacific Avenue, Suite 2 Stockton, CA 95207 209‐956‐[email protected] South San Joaquin Irrigation District PO Box 747 Ripon, CA 95366 Planning and Community Development Department Stanislaus County 1010 Tenth Street, Suite 3400  Modesto, CA 95350 State Department of Conservation 801 K Street, 24th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 State of California Office of Planning and Research State Clearinghouse 1400 Tenth Street Sacramento, CA 95814 916‐445‐0613 Appendix A‐1. EIS Distribution and Noticing 2 of 2 Name Title Organization Address PO Box City, Zip Code Phone E‐mail Stockton East Water District 6767 E. Main Street Stockton, CA 95215 Stockton Planning Department 345 N. El Dorado Street Stockton, CA 95202 F. Allan Chapman The Cambay Group Inc. 2990 Oak Road, Suite 400 Walnut Creek, CA 94597 Jim Franco Superintendent Tracy Unified School District 1875 W. Lowell Avenue Tracy, CA 95376 209‐830‐3245 Public Works Department Tuoloumne County, A.N. Francisco Building 48 W. Yaney Ave, 3rd Floor Sonora, CA 95370 Bill Guthrie Project Manager U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District 1325 J Street, Regulatory Division Sacramento, CA 95814‐2922 916‐557‐[email protected]  Claire Marie Turner Section 408 Project Manager U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District 1325 J Street Sacramento, CA 95814‐2922 916‐557‐[email protected]  Lisa Clay Legal Counsel U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District 1325 J Street Sacramento, CA 95814‐2922 916‐557‐[email protected]  Mark Finan U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District 1325 J Street, Room 1480 Sacramento, CA 95814‐2922 Patti Johnson Project Manager U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District 1325 J Street, Regulatory Division Sacramento, CA 95814‐2922 [email protected]  Regulatory Branch U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District 211 Main Street San Francisco, CA 94105‐1905 David H. Solouff Chief, Bridge Section U.S. Coast Guard, District Eleven U.S. Coast Guard Island  Building 50‐3 Alameda, CA 94501‐5100 510‐437‐3514 Nova Blazej Acting Manager U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, CA 94105‐3901 415‐972‐3847 David L. Harlow Acting Field Supervisor U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2800 Cottage Way, Room W‐2605 Sacramento, CA 95825‐1846 916‐414‐6520 State Supervisor U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2800 Cottage Way, Room E‐1823 Sacramento, CA 95825‐1846 Patrick Kerr Manager of Industry and Public Projects Union Pacific Railroad 10031 Foothills Blvd Roseville, CA 95747 Fleener Richards 701 Bobcat Ln Manteca, CA 95336 Robert C. & Eileen R. Young 2107 Terraza Place Fullerton, CA 92835 Appendix A-2 Notice of Intent Federal Register/Vol. 70, No. 111/Friday, June 10, 2005/Notices 33885 prepare a Draft Second Supplemental and times will be announced in public operation and maintenance of a Federal Environmental Impact Statement notices and local newspapers. A Public flood control project, navigation, (DSEIS) for the Tamiami Trail feature of meeting will be held after release of the hydrology, water quality, wetlands, the Modified Water Deliveries to Draft RGRR/SEIS; the exact location, endangered species, agricultural Everglades National Park (MWD) project date, and times will be announced in a resources, transportation, cultural in Miami-Dade County. The study is a public notice and local newspapers. resources, and air quality. cooperative effort between the U.S. g. Coordination: The proposed action DATES: The projected date for public Army Corps of Engineers, Everglades is in accordance with the Fish and release of the DEIS is November, 2006. National Park (ENP), the Florida Wildlife Coordination Act (FWCA) of Two public scoping meetings will be Department of Transportation, and the 1958 and the Endangered Species Act held on June 29, 2005, to receive South Florida Water Management (ESA) of 1973. The coordinating comments on the proposed contents of District. agencies include the U.S. Fish and the DEIS. One meeting will be held FORFURTHERINFORMATIONCONTACT: Jon Wildlife Service, Everglades National during business hours at 1:30 p.m. and Park, the Florida Fish and Wildlife the second will be held in the evening Moulding, U.S. Army Corps of Conservation Commission, the Florida at 7 p.m. to accommodate the schedules Engineers, Planning Division, Department of Transportation, and the of participants. Environmental Branch, P.O. Box 4970, Jacksonville, FL 32232–0019, by e-mail, South Florida Water Management ADDRESSES: The scoping meetings will [email protected], or by District. be held at the Lathrop Community telephone at 904–232–2286. h. Other Environmental Review and Room, 15453 7th Street, Lathrop, CA Consultation: The proposed action 95330. Written comments may be SUPPLEMENTARYINFORMATION: would involve evaluation for mailed to Ms. Patti Johnson at, 1325 J a. Authorization: The MWD project in compliance with guidelines pursuant to Street, Room 1480, Sacramento, CA South Florida was authorized by the Section 404(b) of the Clean Water Act 95814–2922. All comments must be Everglades National Park Protection and and the National Historic Preservation received on or before July 29, 2005. Expansion Act of 1989. Prior to the current study, a Final GRR/SEIS on the Act. FORFURTHERINFORMATIONCONTACT: i. Agency Role: As cooperating Questions about the proposed action project was coordinated with the public agency, Everglades National Park will and the DEIS can be answered by Ms. in December 2003. The document was provide extensive information and Patti Johnson, telephone (916) 557– withdrawn without a Record of Decision assistance on the resources to be 6611, or e-mail at because additional information on costs impacted and alternatives. [email protected]. Please and benefits required a revision of plan j. DSEIS Preparation: The integrated refer to Identification Number formulation and evaluation. draft RGRR, including a DSEIS, is 199500412. b. Project Scope: The primary goal of currently estimated for publication in the MWD project is to improve water August 2005. SUPPLEMENTARYINFORMATION: River deliveries to ENP from the Central and Islands, LLC, (applicant) has applied for Southern Florida project. The Tamiami Dated: June 3, 2005. Corps authorization under section 404 Trail feature involves means to convey Stuart J. Appelbaum, of the Clean Water Act. The applicant is water south under Tamiami Trail, U.S. Chief, Planning Division. also requesting the State of California Highway 41, into Northeast Shark River [FR Doc. 05–11498 Filed 6–9–05; 8:45 am] Reclamation Board to seek permission Slough of ENP. Specific Objectives BILLING CODE 3710–AJ–M from the Corps Chief of Engineers under include passing peak MWD flows under 33 U.S.C. 408 to permanently alter the highway in as natural a way as federal flood control project levees. The practicable without adversely affecting DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE project as proposed would also require the roadbed and public safety. Corps authorization under Section 10 of c. Preliminary Alternatives: The Department of the Army; Corps of the Rivers and Harbors Act. The project previously examined alternatives will Engineers may also require other Federal, State or be reevaluated in light of new local authorizations, including bridge Intent To Prepare a Draft hydrologic modeling that indicates the permit(s) from the U.S. Coast Guard Environmental Impact Statement for need for a higher design water elevation, under Section 9 of the Rivers and the Proposed River Islands Project, in greater construction costs resulting from Harbors Act. San Joaquin County, CA increases in market costs of material, The proposed project site currently concerns for public safety, and the need AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. includes agricultural land, forested to raise the profile of any portion of the Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. riparian habitat, and rip-rapped flood road that would not be bridged. ACTION: Notice of intent. control levees. It is in the area known d. Issues: The RGRR/SEIS will as West Lathrop, which was annexed to consider impacts on health and safety, SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of the City of Lathrop in 1997. Stewart aesthetics and recreation, cultural Engineers, Sacramento District (Corps), Tract is an island in the Sacramento-San resources, socio-economic resources, will prepare a Draft Environmental Joaquin River Delta bounded by the San hydrology, water quality, ecosystem Impact Statement (DEIS) for Corps Joaquin River on the north and east, Old habitat, fish and wildlife resources, authorization actions for the proposed River on the west, and Paradise Cut on threatened and endangered species, and River Islands project. The overall project the south. Union Pacific Railroad construction costs. purpose is to construct a large-scale, (UPRR) tracks are located along the e. Scoping: As the nature of the issues mixed-use project consisting of eastern boundary of the largest portion have not changed since the previous residential development, a commercial of the project site. Paradise Cut is used document was issued, no additional complex, and which may include open for irrigation and as a flood control scoping is planned. space and recreational amenities, bypass channel carrying flood waters f. Public Involvement: Public located in San Joaquin County or the from the San Joaquin River to Old River. workshops may be held over the course south delta area. The DEIS will address The area adjacent to the project site is of the study; the exact location, dates, impacts such as major changes in the largely agricultural. However, the VerDate jul<14>2003 17:22 Jun 09, 2005 Jkt 205001 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\10JNN1.SGM 10JNN1 33886 Federal Register/Vol. 70, No. 111/Friday, June 10, 2005/Notices Mossdale portion of West Lathrop of Lathrop in January, 2003. A General the DEIS in accordance with NEPA and immediately north of the project is Plan Amendment, West Lathrop the Section 404(b)(1) guidelines. currently undergoing urban Specific Plan amendment, rezoning and Potentially significant issues to be development. Developed portions of the an Urban Design Concept have also been analyzed in depth in the DEIS include, City of Lathrop are east of Interstate approved by the City. but are not limited to, wetlands and Highway 5 and the proposed project A delineation which identifies terrestrial biology, cultural resources, site. approximately 379 acres of waters of the water quality, hydrology and flood The proposed project area covers United States, including 41.18 acres of protection, floodplain management, approximately 4,905 acres of Stewart emergent wetlands, 55.23 acres of scrub/ navigation, agricultural resources, Tract, which flooded in 1997, and shrub wetlands, 60.92 acres of forested transportation and traffic and air surrounding waterways. The project wetlands, 2.77 acres of pond, and quality. would include work in the San Joaquin 218.51 acres of riverine/channel aquatic The above determinations are based River, Old River, Paradise Cut, an habitat, within the approximately 5,546- on information provided by the unnamed drainage channel, pond and acre area surveyed for the project site, applicant and upon the Corps’ adjacent wetlands on Stewart Tract, for was verified by the Corps on January 30, preliminary review. The Corps is the purpose of rebuilding and 2004. The applicant asserts that soliciting verbal and written comments strengthening existing levees, approximately 32-acres of waters, from the public, Federal, State and local constructing a series of setback levees, including wetlands, would be lost to agencies and officials, Indian tribes, and and constructing residential and project construction under their other interested parties in order to commercial development, including preferred alternative. The proposed consider and evaluate the impacts of recreation facilities, back bays and an project would also directly and this proposed activity. The Corps’ interior lake. Excavation and expansion indirectly impact other waters, public involvement program includes of Paradise Cut would be undertaken to including wetlands, in and around the several opportunities to provide oral increase its storage and flow capacity. project. and written comments. Affected Levees along Old River and the San The applicant’s proposed conceptual Federal, State, local agencies, Indian Joaquin River would be reconfigured mitigation for the project’s impacts to tribes, and other interested private and strengthened by the addition of soil waters consists of creation of organizations and the general public are on the landward side of the levees to approximately 140 acres of new waters invited to participate. create high-ground corridors along the in Paradise Cut and approximately 85 Dated: May 31, 2005. river edges. A new cross-levee would be acres of new waters in the proposed Ronald N. Light, build immediately west of, and back bays. These would include Colonel, Corps of Engineers, District Engineer. paralleling, the existing UPRR right-of- approximately 46 acres of emergent way. The applicant asserts levee work wetland and shallow water habitat (less [FR Doc. 05–11499 Filed 6–9–05; 8:45 am] along the San Joaquin River and Old than 10-feet deep) for various fish BILLING CODE 3710–EH–M River afford the opportunity for back species and restoration of approximately bays which would create limited flood 10 acres of wetlands at the Paradise control storage, habitat for various Delta Weir bench. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION fisheries and sites for recreational The proposed project may affect facilities, including marinas. federally-listed endangered or Notice of Proposed Information Under the applicant’s proposed threatened species or their critical Collection Requests alternative, approximately 11,000 habitat including delta smelt, steelhead, AGENCY: Department of Education. homes, five million square feet of spring-run chinook salmon, winter-run SUMMARY: The Leader, Information commercial and retail space and a chinook salmon, giant garter snake, Management Case Services Team, variety of other community facilities riparian brush rabbit, and valley Regulatory Information Management and associated infrastructure would be elderberry longhorn beetle. Other Services, Office of the Chief Information constructed. The mixed-use special status species may occur in the Officer, invites comments on the development would cover project area. The proposed project may proposed information collection approximately 4,115 acres and include adversely affect Essential Fish Habitat requests as required by the Paperwork a town center district, an employment (EFH) as defined in the Magnuson- Reduction Act of 1995. center, public service facilities, retail Stevens Fishery Conservation and and commercial uses, residential Management Act. Once a biological DATES: Interested persons are invited to neighborhoods, lakes and water assessment has been completed, the submit comments on or before August 9, features, schools, parks and trails, golf Corps will initiate formal consultation 2005. courses, open space and habitat areas. with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service SUPPLEMENTARYINFORMATION: Section Two bridge crossings over the San and NOAA Fisheries, under Section 7 of 3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of Joaquin River and two bridge crossings the Endangered Species Act, for 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires over Paradise Cut would be constructed federally-listed threatened or that the Office of Management and to provide access to and from the endangered species and for EFH that Budget (OMB) provide interested developed areas. Water-oriented would be affected by the project. The Federal agencies and the public an early recreational facilities would include Corps will also consult with the State opportunity to comment on information boat docks, ramps and piers. Docks Historic Preservation Officer under collection requests. OMB may amend or sufficient to provide 921 total berths Section 106 of the National Historic waive the requirement for public would be constructed. The applicant Preservation Act for properties listed or consultation to the extent that public also proposes to create approximately potentially eligible for listing on the participation in the approval process 280 acres of open water habitat and 35 National Register of Historic Places, as would defeat the purpose of the acres of wetlands in the central lake. appropriate. information collection, violate State or A Subsequent Environmental Impact A number of on-site and off-site Federal law, or substantially interfere Report (EIR) for the River Islands at project alternatives, including the no- with any agency’s ability to perform its Lathrop Project was certified by the City action alternative, will be evaluated in statutory obligations. The Leader, VerDate jul<14>2003 17:22 Jun 09, 2005 Jkt 205001 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\10JNN1.SGM 10JNN1 Appendix A-3 Public Scoping Meeting Transcript U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS SACRAMENTO DISTRICT RIVER ISLANDS AT LATHROP PUBLIC SCOPING MEETINGS DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT June 29, 2005 Lathrop Community Room 15453 7th Street Lathrop, CA Clark Reporting 2161 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 201 Berkeley, CA 94704 (510) 486-0700 Reporter: Freddie Reppond (cid:31) 2 Clark Reporting (510) 486-0700 1 A P P E A R A N C E S Page 1