Categorical Exclusion Determination
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
February 14, 2017
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Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is proposing to renew an existing agricultural lease on BPA fee-owned land adjacent to the Big Eddy Substation in The Dalles, Oregon. The lease would allow the applicant to continue to use approximately 216 acres of BPA’s land that surrounds the fenced yard of Big Eddy Substation for purposes of harvesting wheat. The applicant has been harvesting wheat on this land since 2005. No new use is proposed.