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Show IWJJrttw 18. must be worked out at higher levels than Region IV and with Forest Service concurrence with Administration Water Policy Directives and Guidelines.) pKA lo "Some streams may be better habitats than others $J~( " some may have better public access than others, and the Utah Div. Wildlife Resources and the U.S.Fish & Wildlife Service are to have broad discretion as to the releases, so they can optimize the benefits tnerefrom.uf (1) This statement reinforces the ineffectual participation of the Forest Service in managing habitat conditions - ones which It alone is responsible for. (2.) It limits the issue to instream flows for fish survival, only. (3) It contradicts other statements in the agreement in the control of water for instream flows. (4) It gives the District leeway in future control by having t h e State DWR, under State control, and U.S.F & W Service, as party to Interior's own agreement, and by omitting the Forest Service. 10. Those federal and state agencies which have responsibility for fishery resources will make a diligent examination of things which may be done to improve the streams themselves, so that the maximum benefits can be realized for the fishery habitats from the water to be released, as provided herein. All of the parties to this agrement, and those Occurring herein, will cooperate in the completion of the Bonneville Unit of the CUP, and will seek to avoid delays and impediments to the completion of the project. ("BLACKMAIL AGAIN! These cooperating Agencies do not represent the public supporting water developments. This requirement is outside their jurisdiction.1! *V 11. In supplying the 15,800 a f of water (whether from pur- (5 chase of existing rights, new appropriations, salvage of water, pro-l' ject releases, or some combination thereof) it is acknowledged that the District intends to make said water available for minimum stream flows and fisheries, but that below the confluence of the Duchense and Strawberry Rivers, the District intends to provide uses and points of rediversion, so that the District can endeavor to recoup the cost of acquisition. Efforts will be made, as aforesaid, to move any additionally acquired water into the project reservoirs (which ones, where?} where it can be released to the streams from the reservoir and/or to other streams by exchange, to provide the needed minimum flows. I Federal government then has to pay for construction of projects since it will benefit from instream flows.6) Once these waters are L |
