PG&E Bucks Creek 1102 Underground (Streambed Alteration Agreement EPIMS Notification No. PLU-45156-R2)
Summary
SCH Number
2024021174
Public Agency
California Department of Fish and Wildlife, North Central Region 2
(CDFW)
Document Title
PG&E Bucks Creek 1102 Underground (Streambed Alteration Agreement EPIMS Notification No. PLU-45156-R2)
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
2/29/2024
Document Description
The project consists of conducting Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD)
under twenty-three (23) culvert crossings associated with natural streams or springs within the road prism of California State Highway 70 to facilitate placement of a conduit for purposes of undergrounding electrical power transmission cable that was destroyed during the Dixie Fire.
Contact Information
Name
Bob Hosea
Agency Name
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH &WILDLIFE
Job Title
Environmental Scientist
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Counties
Plumas
Regions
Northern California
Other Location Info
Project is located at multiple year-round and seasonal, named, and
unnamed streams crossing under Highway 70 adjacent to the North Fork Feather River
Other Information
Extending through Latitude 40.013155° North Longitude 121.194883°
West
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Type – Class (2, 3, 4); California Code of Regulations, title 14, sections (15302c, 15303d, 15304f)
Reasons for Exemption
Class 2c because this project is for a replacement of an existing communication cable destroyed during the Dixie Fire. Class 3d because replacement of destroyed telecommunications cables is through undergrounding rather than replacement above ground.
Class 4f because Horizontal Directional Drilling is a form of trenching under waterways backfilled by conduit with minimal to no significant disturbance to the soil surface.
County Clerk
Plumas
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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