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Show l^LrJiJt:' Actions the CRCUP should be taking now You!ve done an excellent job In follow-up of publicizing our CUP publication and ints findings. (From what I can tell from clippings people send me.) I'm only sorry I had to leave at such a critical time to return to Wisconsin. I think we have the initiative now and need to proceed in every way possible. 1. In having the Carter Public Wdrks Projects veto sustained by Congress, we now have a powerful tool in which to continue working on our CUP efforts. We have political strength - and so does the Department of Interior. I'll be providing some material for letters to come out of Utah, but meanwhile here's what I see is needed. A. I gave Chauncy Powiss , the Governor1s liaison between the . federal government and the State, a copy of our CUP Issues Paper. He was to review it and try to set up a meeting with Governor Matheson to discuss our issues. I think this should be carried forward. Margo Hovingh knows the Room at the State Capitol Bldg where Powiss works and his phone #. I think the effort for a meeting with the Governor should be set up for purposes of discussing CUP costs, the Bureau of Rec. analytical methods, and, above all, the possibilities of the Governor setting up a Sub-Committee to study conclusions of the Van Dam and Utah State U. reports on water • availabi lity. I attended, last fall, Sub-Committee meetings set up by the State of Utah to (1) determine State policy toward Wilderness, and (2) help arrive a recommendations. From committee meetings last fall which were totally anti-wilderness, in personnel make-up and understanding, this group, under the leadership of Stan Slmer, has become an advocate of adequate wilderness classification. Dick Carter, Wilderness Society Rep. is responsible for helping work this out. He and I came to meetings and challenged all the crap these guys spouted - until it finally came through what we were talking about. We must do the same^rj rh CU/V We want the Governor to set up a study group to follow through on water management by the State that is efficient , will modify outmoded staffs and department methods, will come up with regulations to control all the independent water suppliers, will set up conservation procedures, etc. To carry through such a meeting, it will be necessary to have people at the meeting prepared to deal with the Issues. Whether we could get Jerry Kinghorn to attend, I don't know. If not, we could get information from him. , I am doing a lot of reading, now, which I hadn't time for before, to provide background - 208 Water Quality Studies, etc. |
