ML17272A823

Requests Consultation W/& Assistance in Determining Whether Any Plants & Animals Listed as Endangered or Threatened Species Are Present in Site Vicinity.Forwards Two Maps Showing Facility Location & Transmission Lines

ML17272A823
Person / Time
Site:	Columbia
Issue date:	02/06/1980
From:	Sells D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Martinson R INTERIOR, DEPT. OF, FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE
References
NUDOCS 8002250111
Download: ML17272A823 (8)

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Docket No. 50-397 R. Kahler Nartinson Regional Director, Region I U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Suite 1692 Lloyd 500 Building 500 N.E. Nautnoinah Street

Portland, Oregon 97232

Dear Nr. Nartinson:

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RZussman, ANL The Washington Public Power Supply System is constructing a nuclear plant to provide additional generating capacity to'heir service area.

The site, which is shown with its transmission lings on the enclosed maps, is located within the Hansard Reservation in the southeastern part of the State of Washington.

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2 is located in Section 5 of Township 11 North, Range 28 East, Willamette Neridjan, in Benton County, State of Washington, as shown on the enclosed boundary map of the Hanford Reservation, Figure II-l.

The site is 175 miles south of the Canadian border at the Okanogan River crossing; ill miles nest of the Idaho-Washington border at Lewiston, Idaho; 38 miles north of the Oregon-Washington border at Vmatilla, Oregon; and 226 miles east of the Pacific Ocean at Long Beach, Washington.

WPPSS No. 2 is 12 miles north of Rich'land, Washington, the nearest incorporated community, The Columbia River crosses the Hanford Reservation and then flows south to form the eastern boundary of the southern part of the reservation, The site for WPPSS No. 2 is about three miles nest of thg's latter stretch of the Columbia River, The closest approach of the Yakima River is at Horn Rapids Dam, eight mi'les southwest of the plant, outside the reservation.

This letter constitu%s a formal request for consultation with, and the assistance of the Department of the Interior in furtherance of the purposes of the 1978 amendments to the Endangered Species Act.. Pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Act, please forward information as to whether any plants and animals that are listed or proposed to be listed as endangered or threatened species g~~

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If you have any questions regarding this request, please contact gs.

Suzanne Keblusek at (301) 492-8440'incerely, Original signed by D. E. Sells.

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