PUBLIC NOTICE
Availability of a Finding of No Significant Impact
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Development
Pine View Estates Homeowner’s Association: Notice of Finding of
No Significant Impact
AGENCY: Rural Development, Nevada State Office, USDA
ACTION: Notice of Finding of No Significant Impact.
SUMMARY: The Rural Development, Nevada State Office, (RD-NV
USDA) has made a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) with
respect to a request for possible financing assistance to a project
proposed by Pine View Estates Homeowner’s Association (PVEHOA),
Gardnerville, Douglas County, Nevada, for the construction of the Pine
View Estates Wastewater Improvement project.
FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain copies of the EA and FONSI, or for further information, contact: Maria Murillo, Assistant Environmental Coordinator, RD USDA, 2730 North Deer Run Road, Suite 1, Carson City, NV 89701. Phone: (775) 443-4762. Email: maria.murillo@usda.gov
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The proposed project consists
of construction of 5,800 linear feet of a 12-inch gravity sanitary sewer
main and installation of twenty 48-inch diameter manholes. The new
sanitary sewer line will interconnect PVEHOA to the Minden-Gardnerville
Sanitation District’s (MGSD’s) existing collection system. The sewer line
will be built within a 40-foot-wide construction corridor, with a 20-footwide
permanent easement across private land when complete. More
specific information may be found in the EA and FONSI statements.
The availability of the EA for public review was announced via notice in
the following newspaper(s): Record-Courier on May 4, 2024, and May
8, 2024. A 30-day comment period was announced in the newspaper
notice(s). The EA was also available for public review at the Nevada
USDA Rural Development office and website. No comments were
received.
Based on its EA, commitments made by PVEHOA, and no public
comments received, RD-NV USDA has concluded that the project would
have no significant impact to water quality, wetlands, floodplains, land
use, aesthetics, transportation, or human health and safety.
The proposed project will have no adverse effect on resources listed
or eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The
Agency has also concluded that the proposed project is not likely
to affect federally listed threatened and endangered species or
designated critical habitat thereof. The proposed project would not
disproportionately affect minority and/or low-income populations.
No other potential significant impacts resulting from the proposed project
have been identified. Therefore, RD-NV USDA has determined that this
FONSI fulfills its obligations under the National Environmental Policy
Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the Council on Environmental
Quality Regulations (40 CFR §§ 1500-1508), and USDA Rural
Development’s Environmental Policies and Procedures (7 CFR Part
1970) for its action related to the project.
RD-NV USDA is satisfied that the environmental impacts of the proposed
project have been adequately addressed. RD-NV USDA federal action
would not result in significant impacts to the quality of the human
environment, and as such it will not prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement for its action related to the proposed project.
Dated: July 20, 24, 2024
Pub Date: July 20, 24, 2024 Ad # 45078
