EXHIBIT 14-F
TO: X Office of Planning and Research FROM: Monterey Peninsula Water Mgt. Dist.
1400 Tenth Street, Room 121 PO Box 85
Sacramento,
CA 95814 Monterey,
CA 93942-0085
X County Clerk--County of Monterey
240 Church Street, PO Box 29
Salinas, CA 93902
Project Title: Sleepy
Hollow Steelhead Rearing Facility Interim Retrofit Project (IRP)
Project Location -- Specific:
At the Sleepy Hollow Steelhead Rearing Facility (Facility) operated by the
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District at 45 San Clemente Drive, off
Carmel Valley Road on APN 417-051-004, Carmel Valley USGS 7.5-minute
quadrangle, T17S, R2E, Section 27, Monterey County
Project
Location -- City: None Project
Location-- County: Monterey
Description of Nature, Purpose
and Beneficiaries of Project: The primary project objective is to retrofit
the existing water intake system at the Facility. This will allow the District to operate the
Facility at wider range of sediment transport in the Carmel River, expected
with release of stored sediment from San Clemente Reservoir, as a result of the
San Clemente Dam Interim Drawdown Project, ordered by the California Department
of Water Resources Division of Dam Safety.
IRP objectives can be achieved with no impacts to surrounding vegetation
and aquatic habitats. Construction
activities are anticipated to begin by April 1, 2003 and end by May 15, 2003.
Name of Public Agency Approving
Project:
Monterey
Peninsula Water Management District
Name of Person or Agency
Carrying Out Project:
Monterey
Peninsula Water Management District
Exempt Status: (check one)
_____ Ministerial
(Sec. 15073)
_____ Declared
Emergency (Sec. 15269 (a))
_____ Emergency
Project (Sec. 15269 (b) and (c))
x Categorical
Exemptions: Section 15301, Existing
Facilities, Class 1 (the operation, repair, maintenance, or minor alteration of
existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or
topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that
previously existing), ... Item (i), Maintenance of fish screens, fish ladders,
wildlife habitat areas, artificial wildlife waterway devices, streamflows,
springs and waterholes, and stream channels (clearing of debris) to protect
fish and wildlife resources.
Reason(s) Why Project Is
Exempt: This project includes minor
alternation of an existing public structure, involves no expansion of use
beyond existing levels, and includes improvements to a fish screen to protect
threatened juvenile steelhead that are reared at the Facility
Contact Person Area Code Telephone Extension
David H. Dettman 831
658-5643 n/a
Senior Fisheries Biologist
Monterey Peninsula Water Mgt.
Dist.
dave@mpwmd.dst.ca.us
________________________________
Signature
Ernesto Avila
Title: General
Manager, MPWMD
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