CEQA: Reports and comments

These reports are generated in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and can be read or downloaded from this page, in PDF format. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded for free from the Adobe Web site.)

Note: These documents may be large and take a while to download on a dial-up connection. If you cannot access these documents, or to make a comment on any report, please contact Ron Scott, rscott@smud.org, for assistance.

Reports

Notice of Preparation Available for Sacramento Municipal Utility District East Campus - Operation Center Project

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) has prepared a Notice of Preparation (NOP) for the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the SMUD East Campus - Operation Center project (Project). The NOP is being circulated to responsible state and federal agencies and to nearby property owners.

The DEIR will analyze the potential environmental effects of constructing and operating the Project in Sacramento County. The Project would relocate the existing impacted Corporate Yard that is undersized, provide more efficient operations, and provide a central location to service SMUD's electric infrastructure. The Project would include offices, shopes, maintenance and warehouse buildings, open storage space, fuel island and vehicle wash station, parking for visitors and employees, and flee vehicles. The Project is being designed as a U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Rating System with the goal of Platinum Certification.

View Notice of Preparation

Solano Wind Project Phase 3

In its continuing commitment to clean renewable power, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) proposes to construct and operate the third phase of the Solano Wind Project. SMUD operates and maintains an existing wind project in Solano County (phases 1 and 2) which has installed 102 megawatts (MWs) of wind energy since 2007. Phase 3 will add an additional maximum of 128 MW, totaling up to 230 MWs of clean renewable power.

The project consists of installing up to 75 wind turbine generators and associated facilities in the Montezuma Hill region of southern Solano County, southwest of the town of Rio Vista.

A public meeting will be held on October 28, 2009 at the Solano County Administrative Center, 675 Texas Street, Fairfield. The meeting will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The SMUD Board of Directors will consider adoption of the final EIR for the project at two meetings at which the public may make verbal comments. These meetings will be held at SMUD on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 (Integrated Resources and Customer Services Commitee) at 5:00 p.m. and Thursday, January 7, 2010 (SMUD Board Meeting) at 6:00 p.m. at the SMUD HCC and Board auditorium respectively, both located at 6201 "S" Street, in Sacramento.

For more information, contact Lonn Maier, Environmental Project Manager, at (916) 732-6566.

View Draft Environmental Impact Report

View or print public notice

Draft Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration for CVFA's proposed LM 6000 Fleet Upgrade Project

The Central Valley Financing Authority (CVFA) proposes to upgrade one of its existing natural gas turbines to increase output by 7.9 megawatts (MW) while reducing the carbon footprint on a per MW-hour basis. The project will reduce nitrogen oxide emissions, a precursor to ozone. The upgrade also improves the Carson Ice-Gen's efficiency, resulting in lower consumption of natural gas per MW-hour.

The CVFA Commissioners will consider adoption of the final Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration during two meetings at which the public may comment.

Both public meetings will be held at the SMUD Headquarters Building, 6201 S Street, Sacramento. The Aug. 6 meeting will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Headquarters Conference Center. The Aug. 7 meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the SMUD Auditorium.

For more information, contact Kevin Hudson at (916) 732-7101.

View or print Draft Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration

View or print Public Notice