WAPA prepared this EA to evaluate the North Area ROW Maintenance Project.
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
June 1, 2010
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North Area Right-of-Way Maintenance, California
Western Area Power Administration prepared this EA (DOE/EA-1539) to evaluate the North Area Right-of-way (ROW) Maintenance Project. The purpose of the North Area ROW Maintenance Project is to maintain existing transmission line, communication facility, and legal access road ROWs in order to ensure reliability of the transmission system and safe, all-weather access to the transmission line structures and other Western facilities. The study area for this EA includes the transmission line ROWs, communication sites, and access roads within Western’s Sierra Nevada Region of northern and central California, which includes portions of Alameda, Butte, Colusa, Contra Costa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Shasta, Siskiyou, Solano, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Yolo and Yuba Counties. There are more than 800 miles of transmission line ROW and 250 miles of access roads within the project area.
For more information, see North Area Right-of-Way Maintenance, California.