Fallon, NV….The Bureau of Reclamation announced today a 30-day public comment period for a 25-year contract renewal of the transfer of operation, maintenance, and replacement activities related to the Newlands Project to the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District.

This district is the non-federal operating entity for the Newlands Project, including the Truckee Division near Fernley and the Carson Division near Fallon, both in western Nevada.

The Newlands Project, one of the first Reclamation projects, provides irrigation water from the Truckee and Carson rivers – about 57,000 acres of cropland in the Lahontan Valley by Fallon and bench lands by Fernley. Learn more about the Newlands Project at https://www.usbr.gov/mp/lbao/programs/newlands-project.html.

The contract is available at https://www.usbr.gov/mp/lbao/programs/newlands-project.html.

Comments must be received by close of business June 5, 2021, and sent to Deborah Page, Lahontan Basin Area Office, Bureau of Reclamation, 705 N. Plaza St., Room 320, Carson City, NV 89701 or emailed to dpage@usbr.gov. Contact Page for more information at 775-884-8392 (TTY 800-877-8339).

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