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Show 4. should be one of protecting to the best possible degree, the outstanding features of this mountain land - its natural ecological processes associated with its river regimes and the wildlife and wildlands resources benefitting therefrom. Ommission of any indication what part of the 13 6,000 a f of water to be transported through the Strawberry Collection System still belongs to the Ute Indian Tribe and what consequences of the end of the Compact term, the year 2,005, will mean for instream flows. The original Indian Deferral Agreement anticipated in part, using the water on Indian lands above the confluence of the Duchesne River, and Rock Creek. None of this instream flow water could be used to satisfy such an obligation, but it should be spelled out in the Agreement. The bottom 22,300 a f would be available below the confluence of the Duchesne and Strawberrv Rivers. The additional 22,100 a f would be under the control" (if not the ownership) of the U.S.Fish & Wildlife Service. Their use of this water might be such that it would not be available for any use by the Indians. If this were the case then, legally, it would seem that if the water were not replaced by some other mechanism, the Bureau would be legally obligated to release from the Strawberry Collection System, the 62,000 a f of Indian water plus at least 22,10 0 af of instream flow water. QjJffA|ion_pf the fact that an_ amount of 44,400 a f of water may be g3dlli£JL§Ilt__tp^_retain 50% of the historic adult_Tr^£"~habitat Tor four rivers but is insufficient to protect six other rivi-Fi~to~~ be _impacted by the Bonneville Unit Strawberry^odTecTI^n~SysTeln7~ . A purpose of the Water Policy is one of preserving instream flows of all rivers. The Department of Interior has led the program to further this objective as well as others by implementing this Policy. in this Agreement, Interior has not'supported its own Department efforts, Administrative Directives, or similar Directives to the other Federal participators, to salvage flows for all rivers involved. Ommission of stipulations for Flushing Flows. There should be some Agreement on periodic fIushIng~TIows~; " Ommission on Spawning Access. There is no provision in the Agreement for the construction of fish migration facilities which are needed at the Vat Dam on West Fork of the Duchesne River and are possibly needed at the Knight Dam on the Duchesne River. OmmjLs_s_ion of _information on geologic conditions and seismic it m the area of the Upper stTTlwatei=~-DlimsTte~: v . The Water and Power Resources Service is still doing geologic studies at the Upper Stillwater Damsite which implies l u l s u^f l c i e n t information is not available to adequately document that a dam can be safely constructed at this site. The sit*- has relocated one or two times. in addition construction |
