Record Details
page 250
Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 250 Final supplement to the final environmental impact statement : Diamond Fork System, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, page 250 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 250 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; weston hirschi june 28 1989 page 2 maintenance and administration of all features of the deer creek division have been turned over to the association A major feature of the deer creek division i3 ia the deer creek dam and reservoir the deer creek reservoir has a storage capacity of 152564 acre feet and an estimated yield of approximately 100000 acre feet of bater jater annually the entire cost of lands acquired for the dam and reservoir are included in the associations 7600000.00 760000000 repayment obligation under the june 27 1936 repayment contract in the draft supplement to the final environmental statement on the diamond fork system reclamation states that its preferred wildlife mitigation option is an offsite mitigation plan that incorporates and involves the administrative transfer of provo river project lands the offsite mitigation proposal contemplates the taking of 1030 acres of lands acquired for the provo river project to compensate for wildlife habitat losses caused by the bonneville unit the association strongly opposes this proposal the 1030 acres are a part of approximately 1400 acres of land acquired for the provo river project with the exception of about 80 acres of aind lind land md which were withdrawn the entire costs of these lands were included in the associations repayment contract dated june 27 1936 the sum and substance of it all is that while title to the 1030 acres of project lands is in the name of the united states those lands are not public lands per se since they are to be held in trust by the secretary for ifor the benefit of the provo river project the lands in question were acquired for provo river project purposes not bonneville unit project purposes and the lands cannot be severed from the provo river project without constituting a material breach of the associations repayment contract reclamation does not have the authority to sever and transfer lands from one project to another the only provision of reclamation law that provides for the disposal of provo river project lands is the sale of surplus acquired lands act of 1911 according to that act lands acquired for the provo river project can be severed only if the secretary determines that it would be in the best interest of the provo river project the act also 250 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/13023 |
