Minor Alteration No. WA2025154 – Sutter Pressurized Gas Pipeline Repair Project
Summary
SCH Number
2026050602
Public Agency
Central Valley Flood Protection Board
Document Title
Minor Alteration No. WA2025154 – Sutter Pressurized Gas Pipeline Repair Project
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
5/14/2026
Document Description
To protect and restore the soil cover on the existing 10-inch Montis Niger natural gas
pipeline located along an agricultural ditch in the Sutter Bypass. The scope of work also includes establishing access roads and construction staging areas, demarcating the restoration area, installing erosion and sediment control measures, dewatering the agricultural ditch, clearing vegetation, excavating soil, installing bank protection
using either geotextile and rip rap or Armormax revetment and restoring the ditch to its original elevations, removing the dewatering and erosion control measures, and reseeding the disturbed areas. All activities and materials will comply with California Code of Regulations, Title 23, Waters, Division 1 (Title 23) standards.
Contact Information
Name
Angela Nguyen-Tan
Agency Name
Central Valley Flood Protection Board
Job Title
Senior Environmental Scientist
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
Scott Vickers
Agency Name
CPN Pipeline Company
Job Title
Project Manager
Contact Types
Project Applicant / Parties Undertaking Project
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Counties
Sutter
Regions
Northern California
Other Location Info
The project is located in an agricultural ditch within the Sutter Bypass, just east of where the Tisdale Bypass flows into the Sutter Bypass at approximate coordinates 39.028019°N, 121.738297°W in Sutter County.
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Class 1, CEQA CCR, Title 14, Section 15301
Reasons for Exemption
The project is exempt from CEQA under the Class 1, Existing Facilities categorical exemption (CEQA California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Section 15301), because the activity consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of use. No expansion of existing or former use will occur. Further, none of the exceptions to the exemption in CEQA California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Section 15300.2 apply.
Signature
County Clerk
Sutter
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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