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Show 1445 N. 10 St. Manitowoc, Wisconsin 54220 December 7, 1978 Mrs. Jane Yarn Council on Environmental Quality 722 Jackson Place, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 Dear Mrs. Yarn: While this letter is coming from Wisconsin, where I live, and am waiting recovery of my husband from spinal surgery at University Hospitals, Madison, I spent all last year in Utah, as a volunteer, working on classifying a 659,000 High Uintas Wilderness and in forming a group - Citizens for a Responsible CUP(Central Utah Project). The efforts of our coalition is to protect 11 trout streams on the south slopes of the Uinta Range from destruction by Bureau of Reclamation water development, as well as other wildlife habitat there, the two marshes to be diked off at Utah Lake, and to address CUP costs. Early in November, 1978, I sent Chairman Warren a copy of our Issues Paper #1 dealing with an Economic Analysis of the Bonneville Unit, CUP *, as well as with a report of Salt Lake County Attorney Paul Van Dam, on available water sources and conservation measures in the Bonneville Unit which negate the necessity for the CUP developed water at least until the year 2,000, if at all. This report includes a cost questionnaire we prepared on the Bonneville Unit which we asked Secretary Andrus to provide us answers to. While we sent this material to Andrus in early September, we still have not received answers. In early November, having not heard from the Secretary, I contacted Bill Eichenberry, Dep't Interior, Land and Water Resources, and sent him the material for answers. Apparently he believes the Bureau must provide these. I am still Co-Chairman of CRCUP, and in communication with the Utah group. On November 29 and again on December 4, Bureau of Reclamation Regional Director, Nelson Plummer called me to propose that we meet sometime in the future in Salt Lake City to discuss Bureau methods of developing economics of their projects. We would do this to save time in providing us written answers, since many questions we asked had not generated answers by the Bureau. Or, this might result in our not needing written answers. Members and associates of our CRCUP worked for six weeks last summer preparing the cost questionnaire, partly based on the Analysis of Professor Power, partly on other factors. We believe it is sound economics, is relevant and justifiable in order to provide the public the information they need to evaluate federally developed water projects, in particular the CUP. * "Economic Analysis of the Bonneville Unit, CUP" - Professor Thomas Power, Dep't Economics, University of Montana. Sponsored by the National Audubon Society. |
