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Title page 160 Final supplement to the final environmental impact statement : Diamond Fork System, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, page 160
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Relation Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; CHAPTER IV consultation AND coordination supplement DPR the temperature ranges projected pncjected should not cause significant impacts nor have they been a major issue with the state bureau of water pollution control or the resource fishery agencies due to increasing interest in water quality concerns however reservoir and stream water quality will be monitoiad monito yad iad lad ed and should such problems become evident will be corrected at project expense reclamation will coordinate with the state and reso resource resoirce irce agencies in establishing the monitoring program conducting the water quality studies and in developing any mitigation measures if it is determined any are necessary reclamation believes it is improbable that mitigation measures will be required the state and resource agencies are in agreement with this plan reclamation has not made detailed cost estimates for mitigation measures because the need has not been established reclamation does not believe it to be a prudent use of taxpayer taxpayers st money to plan or construct features that have not been determined necessary WRITOBW WITTZN COOUT 0 eal now gal 90 pages 67 70 the FS should provide a comparison of water quality impacts on utah lake between alternatives A and B and alternative C it is not acceptable to defer comment coment on the salinity and other water quality effects of alternatives A and B to the upcoming lad iao lao EIS while presenting the impacts of alternative C recent press reports have indicated a prediction that the Bon bonn bonnoille bonnville noille ville unit as planned would be damaging to crops now irrigated from lake waters the bureau should present the water quality imp impacts yets for all alternatives under consideration in the same environmental impact statement to allow for comparison RESPONSE RZSPCMBZ 90 development of the irrigation and drainage system is assumed under alternatives A and B therefore the impacts to features of the irrigation and drainage system which includes utah lake will covered in the irrigation and drainage system FES under alternative C the irrigation and drainage system would not be built therefore utah lake impacts have been included for this alternative in the diamond fork FES see written comment 58 for a discussion of the process for preparing environmental impact statements for the bonneville unit IRITTXN HRITTBM COMMENT 91 pages 108 110 the DS predicts that the net farm income increase for each of the 195 spanish fork area farmers that would receive supplemental irrigation water would be 1769000 or approximately 9072 per farmer or 3700 37.00 3700 per irrigated acre the FS should indicate whether the farmers ability to repay the construction costs under these circumstances would be greater than the predicted 1.33 133 per acre per year 160 M
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