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DRAFT TIERED NEGATIVE DECLARATION Coachella Valley Water District Transfer of State Water Project Table A Water from Berrenda Mesa Water District to Coachella Valley Water District and Desert Water Agency Pro j ec t Description to 16,000 acre-ft per to the Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD) in Water Agency (DWA) in the amount of 4,000 acr regulatory conditions, Table A Water is the co SWP contractor is entitled to receive. CVWD with BMWD, which has rights to SWP Table A arno Agency (KCWA). The transfer wou that additional initial study review m information of substantial importance wh The project would area, as the associate via the SWP and (Metropolitan). M and DWA, in exchange, an equal ugh the Upper Coachella Valley Whitewater . Water could also be diverted fiom the CRA ater recharge in the Mission Creek subbasin near 10. The parties recognize ged circumstances or new ow, but revealed later. would be accomplished water use within its service towns are Lost CVWD is located in the Coachella Valley of southeastern California, primarily in eastern Riverside County and in northern portions of Imperial and San Diego Counties adjacent to the Salton Sea. DWA borders CVWD on the east in Riverside County (Figure 2). The SWP conveys water from Oroville Dam, through the Sacramento River Channel and into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, then south through the San Joaquin Valley, over the Tehachapi - 1 - . Mountains and into southern California. There is no direct delivery of SWP water into the Coachella Valley. Finding The CVWD Board of Directors, having reviewed the Initial Environmental Study (IES) of this proposed Project and having reviewed the written comments received prior to the public meeting of the Board of Directors, including the recommendation of the District’s staff, does hereby find and declare that the proposed Project, the permanent transfer of u 000 acre-Wyr of State Water Project Table A Water from BMWD to CVWD and up -Wyr to DWA, will not have an additional significant effect on the environment of proposed Project and having reviewed the written co of the Board of Directors, including the re and declare that the proposed Project, the Water Project Table A Water fiom BMWD to effect on the environment of the BMWD. Tiering The California Environmental Quality Ac and its service area, River, and Metropoli document: CVWD, 2002. impacts on the CVWD er Project, the Colorado st tiers off the following n the BMWD and its service area in the IES checklist Transfer of Water Entitlements fiom Berrenda Mesa Water Berrenda Mesa Water District for Use in the Dougherty Valley Area, including Exhibit A - Findings and Biological Resources Report. Prepared by Provost & Pritchard Engineering Group. (SCH #95033045). The proposed Project has been examined in the light of the CEQA documents in the IES. The proposed activity is found to be within the scope of the programs approved earlier and the BMWD EIR and CVWD Program EIR and Addendum adequately describe the activity and its - 2 - impacts for the purposes of CEQA. The proposed activities have been found to have no significant effects beyond those analyzed in the Program EIRs. The proposed Project will not result in any adverse effects which fall within the “Mandatory Findings of Significance” contained in Section 15065 of the CEQA guidelines. The facts supporting this finding are presented in the attached IES prepared for the project and in the reference materials cited in the IES. Mitigation Measures No mitigation measures are necessary. Conclusion The CVWD Board of Directors hereby finds pursuant to the CEQA and reflects its indepen prepared hed. The location and custodian of the doc proceedings upon which the District bas follows: Custodian: Secretary to the Bo 85-995 Avenue 5 s that constitute the record of gative Declaration are as Date: November 22, ; General Manager-Chief Engineer Date Received for Filing - 3 - LITTLE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS Mission Creek Spreading Facility CRA Turnout to Whitewater River SAN JACINTO MOUNTAINS Leaend - Coachella Valley Boundary ---- Improvement Dlstrlct NO. I Boundary - - - - study *Tea Boundary 0 Cttlee/Cornunltlea . .* .. . Olvlslon between Upper and Lower Valley @ MWH MONTGOMERYWATSON HARZA Figure 2 Map of the Coachella Valley
