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20120723-4002 FERC PDF (Unofficial) 07/23/2012 guidelines specify minimal road construction, restricted use of access roads to project facilities, and providing instream flows that satisfy aesthetic and recreation needs where streams border this management area. The North and South Fork Long Canyon Creek diversions are located in a management area that is managed to maintain viable populations of California spotted owls. Management direction for this area was revised and is described in the 2004 Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendments. The area near Ralston afterbay, and along the Middle Fork American River and North and South Forks Long Canyon Creek has a visual foreground retention classification which does not allow major power projects that are incompatible with this classification. Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendments The 2001 and 2004 Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendments augment the Tahoe and Eldorado LRMPs and set forth the management goals and strategies related to five resource topics including: (1) old forest ecosystems and associated species; (2) aquatic, riparian and meadow ecosystems and associated species; (3) fire and fuels management; (4) lower westside hardwood ecosystems; and (5) noxious weed management. The record of decision describes in detail the management standards and guidelines relevant to these five resource topics. Placer County General Plan Activities on private land within Placer County are subject to the provisions contained in the Placer County General Plan (1994). The Placer County General Plan provides goals, policies, and implementation programs in the following areas: land use, housing, transportation and circulation, public facilities and services, recreational and cultural resources, natural resources, agricultural and forestry resources, health and safety, and noise. The Placer County General Plan identifies five land uses in the project vicinity including Agriculture, Resource Protection, Rural Residential, Timberland, and Urban uses. Although all five of these designations occur in the project vicinity, all of the project facilities are located on lands designated as Timberland which applies to mountainous areas where the primary land uses relate to the growing and harvesting of timber and other forest products (together with limited, low-intensity public and commercial recreational uses). Necessary public utility facilities are an allowed use on lands designated as Timberland. 210
20120723-4002 FERC PDF (Unofficial) 07/23/2012 Auburn State Recreation Area Interim Resource Management Plan The Auburn State Recreation Area is situated downstream of the Ralston afterbay and generally extends from the Oxbow powerhouse to Folsom reservoir. Three broad planning goals are identified in the plan: (1) provide for health and safety of the public; (2) minimize and correct environmental damage caused by recreational use and development; and (3) allow and encourage active volunteerism for projects or programs where feasible. Project Roads and Trails There are 46 existing project roads and 8 existing project trails that provide access to project generation, communication, gaging, recreation, and ancillary facilities. Project roads and trails are listed in table 3.3.5-5. Table 3.3.5-5. Project roads and trails (Source: PCWA, 2011a). Project Roads Duncan Creek Area Project Trails Duncan Creek diversion intake road and Duncan Creek diversion dam north diversion pool access point trail Duncan Creek diversion dam road Duncan Creek diversion dam south trail Duncan Creek diversion pool road and access Photovoltaic poles and powerline to point Duncan Creek gage near French Meadows trail French Meadows Area Duncan Creek—Middle Fork tunnel portal road and spillway access point French Meadows—Hell Hole tunnel gatehouse road French Meadows dam outlet works and south leakage weir road French Meadows dam staging area and spillway west access road 211 Duncan Creek gage near French Meadows trail Duncan Creek gage below diversion dam access trail Middle Fork American River gage above Middle Fork powerhouse trail
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