Categorical Exclusion Determination
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
August 29, 2017
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Bonneville Power Administration proposes to fund the Kalispel Resident Fish Program to replace old and outdated equipment at the existing Kalispel Tribal Hatchery. The hatchery raises sterile, triploid rainbow trout for tribal consumption. The equipment replacements at the hatchery would include replacement of the water intake screen and installation of an air-burst backwash system within the Pend Oreille River; replacement of existing plumbing, pumps, piping, and oxygenation system; replacement of fiberglass troughs with 8-foot circular tanks and adding a trough and vertical stack incubators; replacing monitoring and alarm systems, and updating electrical services and controllers.