Shasta Lake, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Scoping Report on the Long-Term Plan for Protecting Late Summer Adult Salmon in the Lower Klamath River.

The Scoping Report provides a summary of comments received and defines the major issues identified to be evaluated in the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The comments will be considered by Reclamation in preparing the EIS.

The Scoping Report is available at http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_projdetails.cfm?Project_ID=22021. If you encounter problems accessing the document, please call 916-978-5100 or email mppublicaffairs@usbr.gov.

For questions or to request a copy of the Scoping Report, please contact Julia Long at 530-276-2044 (TTY 800-877-8339) or jlong@usbr.gov.

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