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Show Fellow Travellers - 1445 N. 10 St. Manitowoc, Wis. 54220 December 1, 1973 Miss being in Utah! Miss everyone except the water developers and politicians! Miss the terrain, the mountains, the weather! Took me 7 and 1/2 hours last Sunday to get 125 miles from Madison home. Terrible storm hit - but the roads were glazed with ice earlier on. Had to drive 20 miles an hour for 3 hours - cars in the ditch, terrible accidents! Enclosed is my response to proposal of Nelson Plummer, BuRec, to meet "sometime in the future" to discuss Bureau Bonneville Unit costs in our questionnaire. Plummercalled me out of the blue and, after long distance calls to Kinghorn, Kapaloski, Reimherr, and Hovingh, we decided the results of such a meeting would be far less satisfactory In obtaining cost information we want. I think that with budget time approaching in Washington, that the Bureau will stall around in providing us the requested Information. We may have to go the route of a Freedom of Information request. How much time should we give Plummer to respond? Under State Water pollution regulations, recently released, there is a non-degradation ruing on National Forest streams, which has the force of law. Soon as I get a copy, I shall ask the Forest Service how they expect to comply with this. How do we a'pproach the State on this? We have to be careful, because somebody will surely try to overrule this law. Also, 208 Water Quality Studies in the Uintah Basin, are completed, and they completely Ignore impacts from CUP. I'm plugging away at different efforts at informing key administration and elected officials. And will be working on a second Issues Paper and a newsletter with you all. I would appreciate you-all keeping in touch, someway, even if it is brief. I need communication on current strategy. Received a reply from the Forest Service, Chief McGuire's Office, stating they were going to review the charges I levelled at them, violating Carter's Water Policy and Directives, etc., and would then reply to me. I don't know whether Bill should or will come home before or for Christmas. The question now is stabilizing his walking and whether we'll lose ground in transferring to physical therapy as an outpatient at some hospital up In our neck of the woods. We were invited out for Thanksgiving dinner:, and we got Bill up the steps of the house and Into a wheel chair and had a great time. Then Saturday, I got him out of wheelchair Into the car, and took him over to the University Bookstore where we spent the afternoon. All this cheered him up. It has been and will be a long haul until recovery. Dorothy |
