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Lee Vining Pre-Application Document FERC Project No. 1388 References List 3.0 River Basin Description FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission). 1992. Final Environmental Assessment for Hydropower License – Lee Vining. LADWP (Los Angeles Department of Water and Power). 1987. Mono Basin Geology and Hydrology. March. MLC (Mono Lake Committee). 2020. “About Mono Lake.” Accessed: August 2020. Available online: https://www.monolake.org/about/ MRLC Consortium (Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium). 2016. Multi- Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium Interactive Viewer. Accessed: August 2020. Available online: https://www.mrlc.gov/viewer/ SWRCB (State of California State Water Resources Control Board). 1994. Decision 1631: Decision and Order Amending Water Right Licenses to Establish Fishery Protection Flows in Streams Tributary to Mono Lake and to Protect Public Trust Resources at Mono Lake and in the Mono Lake Basin. Accessed: August 2020. Available online: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/board_decisions/adopted_orders/de cisions/d1600_d1649/wrd1631.pdf _____. 2013. Settlement Agreement Regarding Continuing Implementation of Water Rights Orders 98-05 and 98-07. In the matter of: City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Water Right Licenses Nos. 10191 and 10192. Accessed: August 2020. Available online: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights//water_issues/programs/mono_lake/ docs/mb_sttlmntagrmnt_signed.pdf SCE (Southern California Edison). 2019. Supporting Technical Information Document – Rhinedollar Dam. USFS (U.S. Forest Service). 2016. Draft Revised Land Management Plan for the Inyo National Forest. Fresno, Inyo, Madera, Mono and Tulare Counties, California; Esmeralda and Mineral Counties, Nevada. R5-MB-294. May. _____. U.S. Climate Data. 2020. Weather History Lee Vining, California. Accessed: August 2020. Available online: https://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/lee- vining/california/united-states/usca0601 Copyright 2020 by Southern California Edison Company August 2020 1 Lee Vining Pre-Application Document FERC Project No. 1388 References List 4.0 Project Location, Facilities, and Operations SCE (Southern California Edison). 2018a. Supporting Technical Information Document– Saddlebag Lake Dam. FERC Project No. 1388-CA. May 2018. Revised September 26, 2019. _____. 2018b. Supporting Technical Information Document–Tioga Lake Dams. FERC Project No. 1388-CA. May 2018. Revised September 27, 2019. _____. 2019. Supporting Technical Information Document for Rhinedollar Dam. USGS (U.S. Geological Survey). 2020. Water-Year Summary for Site USGS 10287760. Accessed: July 2020. Available online: https://nwis.waterdata.usgs. gov/nwis/ wys_rpt?dv_ts_ids=&&adr_begin_date=2018-10-01&adr_end_date=2019-09- 30&site_no=10287760&agency_cd=USGS Copyright 2020 by Southern California Edison Company August 2020 2 Lee Vining Pre-Application Document FERC Project No. 1388 References List 5.1 Geology and Soils Barth, A.P., J.D. Walker, J.L. Wooden, N.R. Riggs, and R.A. Schweicker. 2011. “Birth of the Sierra Nevada magmatic arc: early Mesozoic plutonism and volcanism in the east-central Sierra Nevada of California.” Geosphere: 7: 877–897. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1130/GES00661.1 Bateman, P.C. 1965. Geology and tungsten mineralization of the Bishop district, California. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 470, 208 p., scale 1:62,500. Available online: https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0470/report.pdf Bateman, P.C. 1992 Plutonism in the central part of the Sierra Nevada batholith, California. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1483, Washington, D.C. Available online: https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1483. Bursik, M. 1991. “Relative Dating of Moraines Based on Landform Degradation, Lee Vining Canyon, California.” Quaternary Research 35, 451-455. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(91)90057-C. CGS (California Geological Survey). 2015. CGS Information Warehouse: Mineral Lands Classification and Landslides. Accessed: July 20, 2020. Available online: https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/informationwarehouse/mlc/. California Department of Conservation. 2018. DOC Maps: Mines and Mineral Resources. Accessed: July 20, 2020. Available online: https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/mineralresources/. California Department of Conservation. 2020. Statues and regulations. Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1975. Prepared by California Department of Conservation, Mine Reclamation, Sacramento, California. ESE (Environmental Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles). 1975. Robert K. Kawaratani, and Richard L. Perrine. Wilderness water quality: Bishop Creek baseline study, 1974. Davis: California Water Resources Center, University of California. FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission). 1992. Final Environmental Assessment for Hydropower License. Lee Vining FERC Project No. 1388-001. California. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Office of Hydropower Licensing, Washington, D.C. _____. 1997a. Plan for Control of Erosion, Stream Sedimentation, Soil Mass Movement, and Dust. Lee Vining Hydroelectric Project. FERC No. 1388 – 016. _____. 1997b. Plan for Storage and/or Disposal of Excess Construction/ Tunnel Spoils and Slide Materials. Lee Vining Hydroelectric Project. FERC No. 1388 – 016. _____. 1997c. Order Issuing New License, Project No. 1388. Copyright 2020 by Southern California Edison Company August 2020 3 Lee Vining Pre-Application Document FERC Project No. 1388 References List Gillespie, A.R., and P.H. Zehfuss. 2004. “Glaciations of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA.” Developments in Quaternary Sciences Volume 2, Part B, 51-62. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1571-0866(04)80185-4 Gillespie, A.R., and D.H. Clark. 2011. “Glaciations of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA.” Development in Quaternary Sciences 15: 447-462. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-53447-7.00034-9 Huber, N.K., P.C. Bateman, and C. Wahrhaftig. 1989. Geologic Map of Yosemite National Park and Vicinity, California. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. Available online: https://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i1874/. Jones & Stokes Associates. 1993. Environmental impact report for the review of Mono Basin water rights of the City of Los Angeles. Draft. JSA 90-171. Prepared for California State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights [Lead Agency], Sacramento, CA. LADWP (Los Angeles Department of Water and Power). 1987. Mono Basin Geology and Hydrology. Lahren, M.M. 1989. “Tectonic studies of the Sierra Nevada: structure and stratigraphy of miogeoclinal rocks in Snow Lake Pendant, Yosemite-Emigrant Wilderness; and TIMS analysis of the Northern Sierra terrane.” Doctoral dissertation. University of Nevada, Reno. Lajoie, K.R. 1968 “Late quaternary stratigraphy and geologic history of Mono Basin.” Doctoral dissertation. University of California, Berkeley. Le, K., J. Lee, L.A. Owen, and R. Finkel. 2007. “Late Quaternary slip rates along the Sierra Nevada frontal fault zone, California: Slip partitioning across the western margin of the Eastern California Shear Zone–Basin and Range Province.” GSA Bulletin 119(1-2): 240-256. https://doi.org/10.1130/B25960.1. Lidke, D.J. 2000. Fault number 1181, Northern Roberts Mountains fault. In Quaternary fault and fold database of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey. Accessed: July 20, 2020. Available online: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/cfusion/qfault/show_report_AB_archive.cfm?fault_id =1181&section_id=. Millar, C.I., and W.B. Woolfendan, 1999. “The role of climate change in interpreting historical variability.” Ecological Applications 9: 1,207–1,216. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[1207:TROCCI]2.0.CO;2 Phillips, F. 2017. “Glacial chronology of the Sierra Nevada, California, from the last glacial maximum to the Holocene.” Geographical Research Letters 43: 527-552. Available online: https://doi.org/10.18172/cig.3233 Copyright 2020 by Southern California Edison Company August 2020 4 Lee Vining Pre-Application Document FERC Project No. 1388 References List Sawyer, T.L., compiler. 1995. Fault number 65a, Southern Sierra Nevada Fault Zone, independence section. In Quaternary fault and fold database of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey. Accessed: July 20, 2020. Available online: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/cfusion/qfault/show_report_AB_archive.cfm?fault_id =65&section_id=a. Sawyer, T.L., and W.A. Bryant, compilers. 1995. Fault number 42, Silver Lake Fault, in quaternary fault and fold database of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey. Accessed: July 20, 2020. Available online: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/cfusion/qfault/show_report_AB_archive.cfm?fault_id =42&section_id=. _____. 2002. Fault number 41, Mono Lake fault. In Quaternary fault and fold database of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey. Accessed: July 20, 2020. Available online: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/cfusion/qfault/show_report_AB_archive.cfm?fault_id =41&section_id=. Schweickert, R.A., and M.M. Lahren. 1987. “Continuation of Antler and Sonoma orogenic belts to the eastern Sierra Nevada, California, and Late Triassic thrusting in a compressional arc.” Geology 15: 270–273. 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