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Show ^^JL (lluAAdM^ ^CMJi^JtZt^ CAM^ 1^5 N. 10 St. ff6s~i^Jr* . / / . o - ' Manitowoc, Wisconsin '• y T ^ T " ' ^imcii ^Cwu^c 51220 * X ' ^ ^ U X ^ _ X ' < ^ > U ^ W ^ * December 7, 1978 Council on Environmental Quality y 722 Jackson Place, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 Dear Mrs. Yarn: Although I live in Wisconsin, I stayed in Utah all last year working as a volunteer in trying to establish a 659,000 acre High Uintas Wilderness in northeast Utah, under RARE II procedures, and in trying to protect instream flows, and river ecosystems and associated wildlife habitat on the Ashley and Wasatch National Forhsts to be destroyed by developments of the Central Utah Project. I formed a coalition group - Citizens for a Responsible CUP - with Trout Unlimited and member clubs of the Federation of Fly Fishermen and other citizens. We prepared, as our first effort, an Issues Paper #1 dealing with an "Economic Analysis of the Bonneville Unit of the CUP"* as well as conslusions of a report by Salt Lake County Attorney, Paul Van Dam, which deals with alternatives to federally developed water in the Bonneville Basin. The development of State efficient water management - water salvage, institutional reform, recycling and dual water management, and conservation measures - would negate the need for CUP at least until the year 2,000, if at all. I sent this and other material to Chairman Warren early in November. I assume he received it although I have not yet gotten my Receipt Requested acknowledgement through the Post Office. We sent this report and a Bonneville Unit cost questionnaire we had prepared to Secretary Andrus early In September for answers. When we did not hear from the Secretary by November, I contacted and sent similar material to William Eichenberry, Interior Land and Water Resources, at his request, for answers. He has turned it back to the Bureau of Reclamation-as their responsibility. I am back in Wisconsin pending recovery of my husband from spinal surgery in Madison. However, I am still Co-Chairman of CRCUP and am in active communication with the Utah group. On November 29 and again on December 4, Regional Director of the Bureau in Salt Lake City, Nelson Plummer, called me to propose a meeting sometime in the future to explain Bureau methods of calculating costs. Since their procedures do not lend themselves to breakdown for answering our questions, as asked, a meeting would either be a preliminary explanation or what could be answered or satisfy us in lieu of written answers. It is the decision of CRCUP Advisory Board and associates, that we be provided written answers. The questionnaire was carefully thought out and worded, last summer; It is economically sound; it is relevant and justifiable in providing citizens cost information they can understand in evaluating CUP. *Professor Thomas Power, Dep't Economics, University of Montana |
