Ca. Dredging update

[jerhobbs]

Some time ago we had identified this week and last as the period of time we expected to hold public meetings on the Draft Subsequent Environmental Impact Report and Proposed Regulations. In mid-December it became apparent we would not be able to meet that schedule and, by email, I shared that information with everyone for whom I had an email address and I knew was interested. Clearly, my email address book does not include everyone who is interested in these proceedings. As a result, last night a number of people showed up in Santa Clarita expecting a public meeting, which did not happen. There are no public meetings this week in Santa Clarita, Fresno or Sacramento nor are there any in Redding or Yreka next week.

CDFG has completed our review and development of the draft SEIR and proposed regulations and we are now incorporating final edits, proofreading documents, and preparing the several submittals which are necessary for the Office of Administrative Law. When we are done with that sometime next week we will provide documents to the printer for production and get our mailing list set up to mail paper copies to libraries and CDFG offices, CD's to parties who have requested the documents and work on getting the documents posted to our web site. When we know exactly when we can release the documents for public review we will establish the public meeting dates and locations.

I expect to have a much better idea of our schedule next week. That information will be used to update our website and I will provide the same information to this group in an email.

Please forward to others who may find this useful.

Mark Stopher
Environmental Program Manager
California Department of Fish and Game
601 Locust Street
Redding, CA 96001

voice 530.225.2275
fax 530.225.2391
cell 530.945.1344