Imagine riding from Coyote Hills to Alviso! The Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Report (DEIS/R) for the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project is now available on the project website at www.southbayrestoration.org/EIR. The public comment period on the DEIS/R is open until April 23, 2007. Comment instructions are posted to the website and are stated below.
Speak-up! An East Bay public hearing is scheduled on:
Thursday, March 29, 2007, 6 – 8 p.m.
Centennial Hall, Room 1, 22292 Foothill Blvd, Hayward
Maps and directions to the public hearing
locations are available on the project website.
Persons needing reasonable accommodation in order to attend and participate in the public meetings
should contact Anna Schneider (510/286-1015 or
aschneider@scc.ca.gov) at least one week in
advance of the meetings to allow time for
arrangements to be made.
The document is available for public inspection,
by appointment, during regular business hours, at
the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Complex, 1 Marshlands Road, Fremont, CA, (510)
792-0222; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1455
Market Street, San Francisco, CA, (415) 977-8466;
the California Dept. of Fish and Game, Region 3
Headquarters, 7329 Silverado Trail, Napa, CA,
(707) 944-5500; and the Santa Clara Valley Water
District, 5750 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA
(408) 265-2600.
It is also available for public review at the following libraries:
- Alviso Branch Library: 5050 North First St., San José, CA 95002, (408) 263-3626
- City of Mountain View Library: 585 Franklin Street, Mountain View, CA 94041, (650) 903-6337
- Sunnyvale Public Library: 665 West Olive Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, (408) 730-7300
- Hayward Public Library: 835 C Street, Hayward, CA 94541, (510) 293-8685
- Fremont Main Library: 2400 Stevenson Blvd, Fremont, CA 94538, (510)745-1400
- Menlo Park Library: 800 Alma Street, Menlo Park, CA 94025, (650) 330-2500
- Palo Alto Main Library: 1213 Newell Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303, (650)329-2436
Individuals wishing copies of the DEIS/R should
contact Anna Schneider at the State Coastal
Conservancy (510) 286-1015.
Written comments on the Draft EIS/R may be submitted to:
Yvonne LeTellier, US Army Corps of Engineers,
1455 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103;
Mendel Stewart, USFWS, Don Edwards San Francisco
Bay NWR, 9500 Thornton Avenue, Newark, CA 94560;
or
John Krause, California Department of Fish and
Game, PO Box 47, Yountville, CA 94599
Instructions for submitting comments
electronically are available on the project
website:
http://www.southbayrestoration.org/EIR.