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Show APPENDIX F I I SALT LAKE CITY/ U. S. FOREST SERVICE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING This Memorandum of Understanding entered into this 14th day of January, 1981, by and between WASATCH- CACHE NATIONAL FOREST, FOREST SERVICE, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, hereinafter called SERVICE, and SALT LAKE CITY CORPORATION, a municipal corporation of the State of Utah, hereinafter called CITY, concerning the management of certain lands in the Wasatch- Cache National Forest in Salt Lake County, Utah, which are also the municipal watersheds for Salt Lake City, Utah. WITNESSETH: WHEREAS, the SERVICE is charged by Presidential Proclamation, federal law and regulation to manage the lands known as the Wasatch- Cache National Forest, and portions of these lands are included in the watershed drainages known as Little Cottonwood Canyon, Big Cottonwood Canyon, Mdlcreek Canyon, Neff s Canyon, Parley's Canyon, Lambs Canyon/ Dell Canyon, Emigration Canyon, and City Creek Canyon; and WHEREAS, the Federal Act of September 19,1914 sets aside lands described in the Act ( principally Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons) as a municipal water supply reserve for the use and benefit of Salt Lake City and directs administration by the Secretary of Agriculture in cooperation with Salt Lake City and the State of Utah has granted extraterritorial jurisdiction to all Utah cities to enact ordinances pertaining to prevention of pollution or contamination of the streams or water courses from which inhabitants of the cities derive their water supply; and WHEREAS, the SERVICE and the CITY recognize that in the administration and planning for all activities and development on National Forest lands within the City Watershed areas that the protection of water quality is a prune consideration; and Page 141 |