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Show 1445 N. 10 St. Manitowoc, Wisconsin 54220 October 31t 1978 Charles Warren, Chairman Council on Environmental Quality 722 Jackson, Place, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 Dear Mr. Warrent I spent the last year in Utah trying to get a handle on the Central Utah Project and am back in Wisconsin with my husband who is recovering from spinal surgery. While in Utah, I formed the Citizens for a Responsible CUP group with Trout Unlimited and member clubs of the Federation of Fly Fishermen. This CRCUP group continues to carry out efforts "to protect Uinta Range streams, associated wildlife on the National Forests there^and the marshes of Utah Lake to be diked under CUP developments. I am sending you copies of two comments I prepared, one as a response to the Uintah Unit Draft EIS, of the CUP, of August 24, 1978; the other two as responses to the Proposed High Uintas South Slope Land Management Plan and Draft EIS of August, 1978. I responded under two hats; as a member of the High Uintas Wilderness Coalition and responsible for helping draft the citizens boundary proposal for a High Uintas Wilderness and as Co-Chairman of the Citizens for a Responsible CUP. I have hiked all over the Uinta Range - top to bottom, end to end- in 1973 and 1974 and know the wilderness, the wildlife and the CUP impact and development issues. I spent much of last year in Utah also working with the Department of Interior and with the Bureau of Reclamation in trying to provide adequate instream flows on the Uinta Range streams and their ecosystems, primarily. I worked with Forest Service, State Division of Wildlife Resources, and U.S.Fish & Wildlife Service wildlife and fisheries staffs to protect stream and wildlife resources and with the Wilde^rness Society and other environmental groups, mostly in Salt Lake City. Instream flow issues are still not resolved in spite of efforts by a few concerned citizens and agency staffs since 1951 and assurances of former Secretary of Interior Rogers Morton, in 1973» "to resolve them. Both comments I prepared in response to the above named water and land plans, deal with the facts that neither the gureau of Reclamation or the Forest Service are complying with the Carter Administration Water Policy and Directives for implementing it. with Executive Orders to protect Wetlands and floodplains, and available opportunities under Amendments to the Water Pollution Act. These options are designed to help protect stream regimes and wildlife habitat areas. The enclosed material is selected to provide the Council on Environmental Quality background information |
