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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 298 Central Utah Project, Bonneville Unit : Diamond Fork Power System : final Environmental Impact Statement, page 298 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 298 text/PDF |
| Rights | Brigham Young University; http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/generic.php Public Domain Public |
| Language | English; eng; en |
| Relation | Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; coida coid1 consultation 4sultation AND coordination continued high C fluctuations in the reservoirs were described which indicates that user acceptance would be relatively high ice formation on the reservoirs is not expected to be a serious opera tional dional problem since the inletoutlet inlet outlet structures in each reservoir would be located below the depth at which ice would form 135 comment construction costs are not identified the cost to construct the diamond fork power system is extremely important to the decision maker and the public someone has to pay for this project yet no information about the economic impact of this project on the f federal taxpayer the local taxpayer and the local or regional rate payer is included in the diamond fork EIS the taxpayer may support a project which destroys recreational and aesthetic amenities if it will produce direct benefits to him at a certain cost A different decision may be made if the costs are to be borne by the taxpayer in one state while the power benefits are exported and enjoyed in other states these costs and economic issues are espe cially bially important in the diamond fork power system context since the bureau is considering non federal participation in financing the proj broj ect act the diamond fork EIS should discuss what the economic effects of this project are on the local taxpayer with and without non federal par ticipation in addition the EIS should discuss the economic effects on CRSP states if non federal participation is allowed these economic effects should include inter alia a discussion of the burden on other CRSP states if the revenues from the diamond fork power system are not paid into the colorado river basin fund response A detailed accounting of project costs and benefits is beyond the scope of an environmental impact statement this information is available at the utah projects office in provo estimates of construction costs for all diamond fork power system alternatives are shown in summary table I 1 1 also table 19 reclamations approach regarding non federal partici partica pation in the project allows the market to insure that costs to the tax payers would be minimized preliminary information from western area power administration indicates that CRSP rates may increase slightly if the diamond fork power system costs are integrated into the CRSP system however this effect would be fully disclosed through westerns westeris We sterns power marketing and rate setting processes 136 comment indian deferral agreement Is not discussed the diamond fork EIS does not adequately address the effect of the indian deferral agreement if the ute indian unit and the bureau of indian affairs development is not on line by the year 2005 water may not be able to be diverted trans basin through the diamond fork power system this may render the diamond fork power system useless indeed it may well be that the impacts of the ute indian unit and the bureau of indian affairs development should 298 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/4398 |
