Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 290 Central Utah Project, Bonneville Unit : Diamond Fork Power System : final Environmental Impact Statement, page 290 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 290 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; consultation AND coordination continued response the findings of fact and conclusions of law for the 1974 court case no 4 states the FES under review purports to be a final environ mental statement for only the strawberry aqueduct and collection system but contains a programmatic description covering an explanation and dis cussion cassion of the other systems and features of the bonneville unit as well as the entire central utah project finding of fact no 14 states in accordance with the said CEQ guidelines the FES describes the phys ghys ical elements of the entire bonneville unit that are in various stages of final planning design and construction it explains and describes the entire bonneville unit to facilitate an overall appraisal of its environmental impact and to allow an objective examination of a reason able array of alternatives to the proposed plan it expressly states however that it is intended to be the final impact statement only in regard to the strawberry aqueduct and collection system which has a high priority for construction thus reclamation believes that the decision of the court was that the 1973 FES was programmatic for the entire bonneville unit 131 comment As such the bureau has yet to satisfy NEPA requirements with regard to the major and pivotal decision of whether to divert any water from the uinta basin to the bonneville basin until that critical decision is made and supported by an environmental statement it is premature to address the decision to build and the site specific environmental con sequences of the diamond fork power system response the 1974 litigation determined that the 1973 FES had clearly presented to the public a comprehensive description of the proposed plan for the entire bonneville unit as well as an analysis of environmental impacts including the diversion of 136600 acre feet of water from the uinta basin sufficient to allow for an overall appraisal of what would happen if the project were completed in accordance with that plan thus the intent to make the transbasin trans basin diversion was openly stated to the public however final decisions to divert project waters were deferred to future environmental statements in order to allow for additional plan ning input and site specific impact analyses reclamations actions are consistent with the court finding of fact no 15 that states there are numerous features to the bonneville unit and project works will develop numerous sources of water supply both in the uinta basin and in the bonneville basin however the FES divides the entire bonneville unit into six systems according to location and function the court finds that because of its size and complexity and the ongoing construc construe con struc tion program the bonneville unit can best be described and its environ mental impact assessed by dividing it into said six systems according to location and function designated as follows 1 starvation col lection system 2 strawberry aqueduct and collection system 3 diamond fork power system 4 irrigation and drainage system 5 municipal 290 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/4735 |
