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Title page 40 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, Volume II, page 40
Coverage Electronic reproduction;
Source Central Utah Water Conservancy District
Publisher Brigham Young University
Date 2005-10-14
Format 40 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; to help control any degradation that might occur construction acti aati vity in the stream or diversion of water would comply with all applica applina ble state and federal water pollution control regulations and laws A recent streamflow stream flow study on the fishery habitat of the stream affec affect ted by the strawberry aqueduct has been completed cooperatively by the forest service the US fish and wildlife service the bureau of reclamation and the utah division of wildlife resources utah divi sion of wildlife resources 1979 the study requested by the governor of utah in an effort to evaluate the various flow alternatives was submitted to him on may 7 1979 the designs of the diversion structures along the strawberry collection system will allow releases of whatever flows should be finally decided upon the impacts on salinity are discussed in the response to comment 9 above 22 comment we are disturbed by the segmentation of analyses that is being done on the bonneville unit the strawberry collection system the diamond fork power system and the irrigation and drainage system are all inter related in function and would have interdependent environmental effects it is misleading to analyze each system as if it stood alone actions taken on any given system would affect the other systems in terms of design and environmental impacts response the bonneville unit is divided into six systems according to location and function although these systems are designed for interrelated operations to provide the maximum efficiency they could operate inde pendently if necessary two court actions upheld the practicability and legality of issuing individual environmental impact statements on each of the systems of the bonneville unit civil action no C 74 9 sierra club et al vs gilbert stamm et al was filed january 7 .1974 1974 and was litigated in favor of the defendants stamm et al by the united states district court for the district of utah on june 21 1974 the decision was upheld by the united states tenth circuit court of appeals on november 29 1974 the supreme court refused to hear an appeal this subject is discussed further in section A ioa loa 10a of the DES and the FES 23 comment the impact statement did not contain a costbenefit cost benefit analysis this was called for in the original EIS guidelines issued by the council on environmental quality and is required by their new regulations not only is there no BC analysis in the impact statement but a copy of the analysis is not even readily available furthermore the analysis as we understand it is based on outdated information and policies 40
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