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Title page 319 Central Utah Project, Bonneville Unit : Diamond Fork Power System : final Environmental Impact Statement, page 319
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Relation Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; consultation AND coordination continued 175 comment in your preferred wildlife mitigation option for the recommended fifth water pumped storage plan you plan to acquire about 4443 acres of pri vate lands under single ownership this would provide the greatest and best distribution of compensatory biological values in the diamond fork study area page 40 I 1 fail to see why this plan or a portion of it combined with acquisition of other large areas of land would not satisfy your needs under any of the options you might be forced to accept the redford and schneider properties and brimhall ranch come to mind as viable compensatory addi tions eions in the event that part of the childs ranch is covered with the hayes reservoir selling of a portion of the brimhall ranch would help compensate the spanish fork livestock association for the likely reduction of their operation because of this project response the recommended wildlife mitigation option for each alternative is based on a combination of biological economic and social considerations for that alternative the recommended options have been refined to consider obtaining managements rights from willing sellers only other comments and responses comments from forest service letter dated august 23 1983 176 comment dam heights in previous discussion and correspondence it was requested and agreed upon that an evaluation of dam heights be made to determine what effect a reduction in draw down areas would have on economics esthetics and recreation at the reservoirs this draf draft braf t of the EIS does not contain that evaluation we again request that the evaluation be made and included in the FEIS response reclamations geologic investigations indicate that the proposed dam heights for the fifth water pumped storage alternative are the maximum at which a dam could be safely constructed because of this no reduc deduc tion in drawdown by increasing dam heights would be possible therefore economics esthetics and recreation would remain the same 177 comment impacts of borrow areas on recreation and esthetics the proposed campground site at fifth water reservoir is listed as a potential borrow area on page 25 if the site is used as a borrow area 319
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