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Categorical Exclusions 2022

DOE’s NEPA regulations list classes of actions that normally do not require an EIS or an EA because, individually or cumulatively, they do not have the potential for significant environmental impacts. Examples are information gathering activities and property transfers when the land use is unchanged.

  • Adult Upstream Migration Timing Monitoring at Bonneville Dam (01/21/2022)
  • ATT Cedar Flats-Highway 8 LTE Antenna Upgrade (01/04/2022)
  • Celilo Maintenance Headquarters Roof Drainage Piping System Replacement (01/31/2022)
  • Continued funding to CRITFC for the monitoring of Snake River spring Chinook in the Grande Ronde Subbasin - update to CX issued on October 12, 2021 (01/27/2022)
  • McNary-Ross No. 1 Access Road Improvement Project Miles 140-148 (01/19/2022)
  • PIT Tagging Wild Chinook - update to CX issued on 12/14/2021 (01/28/2022)
  • Portland General Electric Electric Service Line Installation (01/03/2022)
  • Pride Disposal Asphalt Road and Truck Scale Installation (01/05/2022)
  • Schultz-Wautoma No 1 Series Capacitor Bank Installation (01/04/2022)
  • Spar Canyon Substation Upgrade Project (01/31/2022)
  • Telecommunications Equipment Upgrades at Existing Wireless Sites Through 2026 (01/05/2022)
  • Upper Malheur Brook Trout Electrofishing Gillnetting and Research (01/20/2022)
  • Verizon Upgrades at White Creek (01/03/2022)
  • YTAHP Parke Creek at Alkali Heights and Flats Pipeline Project (01/04/2022)

  • ATT Snohomish East LTE Antenna Upgrade (02/18/2022)
  • Bell-Boundary No. 3 FY17 to FY19 Identified Wood Pole Replacements (02/16/2022)
  • Bettas Road Substation Land Disposal and Acquisition (02/17/2022)
  • CX - Rocky Reach-Maple-Valley 112-118 (02/15/2022)
  • Ellensburg-Moxee No 1 Structure 310 Replacement (02/16/2022)
  • Huard Road Line Tap and Revenue Meter (02/11/2022)
  • Marion Drain Hatchery Rearing Tanks Overhead Cover Repair Project (02/16/2022)
  • Palisades Creek Rainbow Trout and Cutthroat Hybrid Trout Removal (02/03/2022)
  • Pasco District FY22 Priority Pole Replacement PPA 4785 (02/02/2022)
  • Snohomish-Bellingham Short Fiber Replacement Project (02/16/2022)

  • Chemawa Maintenance Headquarters Entry Gate Replacement (03/09/2022)
  • City of Richland Gateway Substation Meter (03/17/2022)
  • Disconnect Switch Acquisition at Biglow Canyon Substation (03/15/2022)
  • Genetic Assessment of Columbia River Stocks (03/28/2022)
  • Goose Prairie Solar Interconnection (03/10/2022)
  • Hellsgate Big Game Winter Range Aerial Seeding (03/07/2022)
  • Highway 20 Property Acquisition (03/17/2022)
  • Kalispel Tribe Resident Fish Hatchery Operations and Maintenance (03/17/2022)
  • Lower Crow Property Acquisition (03/16/2022)
  • New Marking and Monitoring Technologies Project (update to CX issued on November 2, 2021) (03/24/2022)
  • Road Creek Bridge Construction (03/09/22)
  • Shelton – Fairmount No. 2 Line Mile 47 Culvert Replacement and Access Road Improvement Project (03/30/2022)
  • Transmission Line Marker Ball Replacement Phase III Project (03/15/2022)

  • Amended and Restated Firm Power Sales Agreement (04/04/2022)
  • Ashe Marion No 2 Urgent Fitting Replacements Line Mile 200 to 202 (04/01/2022)
  • Black Mountain Radio Station Tower Acquisition (04/04/2022)
  • Buckley Substation Disconnect Switch Additions (04/15/2022)
  • Department of Energy Richland 451B Disconnect Switch Replacements (04/07/2022)
  • Fairview Substation Station Service (04/27/2022)
  • Genetic Monitoring and Evaluation Program for Salmon and Steelhead (04/11/2022)
  • Lower Monumental-Ashe Access Road Repair (04/04/2022)
  • Methow River Suspension Reach Fish Habitat Enhancement Project (04/12/2022)
  • Non-Native Fish Suppression in the Pend Oreille Subbasin (04/26/2022)
  • Ross-Lexington No. 1 Transmission Line Sidewalk Installation - update to CX issued on 01/19/2021 (04/15/2022)
  • Scooteney Substation Expansion (04/19/2022)
  • Survival Estimate for Passage through Snake and Columbia River Dams (04/01/2022)
  • Willow Creek 1 Structure 14 16 Urgent Replacement Project (04/27/22)
  • Zayo Fiber Decommissioning Covington-Bell (04/29/2022)

  • Albeni Falls Dam RME (05/11/2022)
  • Crocker Creek Culvert Replacement (05/16/2022)
  • Fiber Optic Cable and Communications Equipment Installation (05/06/2022)
  • Lookout PointAlvey No 1 Structure 3 12 Replacement (05/02/2022)
  • Lower Columbia Coded Wire Tag Recovery Project (05/18/2022)
  • NVEC Mobile Transformer Lease at Nespelem Substation (05/06/2022)
  • Oregon Fish Screens Projects Pump Screens (05/12/2022)
  • Yakama Reservation Watershed RMOM (05/18/2022)

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