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Vantage to Pomona Heights Chapter 3 230 kV Transmission Line Project FEIS Affected Environment PAGE 3-130 Storage Study is to identify and examine the viability and acceptability of water storage alternatives. In 2006, Reclamation prepared an appraisal assessment of three other alternatives: the Bumping Lake enlargement, Wymer Dam and Reservoir, and Keechelus-to-Kachess pipeline. The conclusions reached in these two appraisal assessments were that the Black Rock and Wymer Alternatives should be included in the Plan Formulation Phase of the Storage Study. The Wymer Dam Alternative is located within the Project study area along Burbank Creek on private lands. Wymer Reservoir would be a 162,500 acre-feet off-channel storage facility located in the intermittent stream channel of Lmuma Creek planned to be developed on private and BLM-managed lands, which enters the Yakima River approximately 8 miles upstream of the Roza Diversion Dam. The Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project Phase III Act of 2015, introduced into the Senate in June 2015, is specific legislation that would authorize the initial phase implementing the Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Plan (Integrated Plan). The Wymer Dam is included in the Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Plan. As part of the bill, the Department of the Interior would be authorized to make grants for the purposes of watershed enhancement that could include conservation easement or property purchases in the Project study area. As of December 2015, the bill had been passed through the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and was placed on Senate Legislative calendar under General Orders. The Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Integrated Plan was prepared jointly by Reclamation and WDOE. Reclamation’s Integrated Plan provides water for agriculture, fish, and communities by enhancing and protecting habitat. The Targeted Watershed Protections and Enhancements program would acquire property or easements for protection of watersheds and key habitat areas. Land acquisition and habitat enhancement components included in the Integrated Plan are intended to result in a net improvement in conditions for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) and other wildlife species by protecting and enhancing existing high value habitat areas within the Yakima Basin. The Project study area contains private land parcels planned for purchase or establishment of conservation easements to fulfil the land acquisition and habitat enhancement element of the Integrated Plan. 3.4.3 Current Management Considerations This section describes the general land use management goals and objectives related to transmission lines and utility related infrastructure for the land/resource management agencies in the Project study area. 3.4.3.1 Federal Bureau of Land Management In the Project study area, the Spokane District of the BLM manages public lands in Grant, Kittitas, Benton, and Yakima counties with the Saddle Mountains MA in Grant County constituting one of the larger contiguous areas of BLM-managed land in the Project study area. The Spokane District manages its land and resources in the Project study area using the 1985 Spokane District RMP, 1987 ROD, and the 1992 RMP Amendment and ROD. The RMP designated two utility corridors on BLM lands, one of which is partially occupied by the Saddle Mountains BPA transmission lines in the Project study area and the other is occupied by the Pomona-Wanapum 230 kV transmission line (see Appendix A - Land Use Map). No other utility corridors are designated on BLM land in the Project study area. The BLM is in the process of updating the Spokane District 1985/1987 RMP and 1992 RMP Amendment/ROD. Since the public scoping process for this planning effort was initiated in April 2010, the scope of this planning effort has changed. This planning effort only includes BLM-administered lands in eastern Washington. Originally, the BLM announced its intention to prepare a Resource Management