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Show Citizens for a Responsible Central Utah Project Beard of Directors Dorothy Harvey, co-chairperson E red Reimherr, co-chairperson Beth Duncan David Freed Karl Heidenreich Peter Movingh David Littlefield Dave McCormick Barbara Polich James Talley Hartt Wixom Supporting Organizations • Utah Council, Trout Unlimited •Rocky Mountian Council of the Federation of Fly Fishermen •Utah Member Clubs of the Federation of Fly Fishermen •Stonefly Society of the Wastach Salt Lake City. Utah •Order of the Royal Coachman Pleasant Grove. Utah •Utah Audubon 1445 N. 10 St. Manitowoc, Wisconsin 54220 January 5, 1979 The Honorable Robert N. Giamo,Chairman Committee on the Budget Committee on Appropriations Rayburn House Office Bldg. Room 2207 Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Mr. Giamo: While this letter comes to you from Wisconsin, I have spent summers the last 7 years working on issues of the management of public resources on public lands in the Rocky Mountain region. I stayed in Utah all last year, finally forming Citizens for a Responsible CUP (Central Utah Project) for purposes of trying to protect major Uinta Range trout streams, wildlife habitat, recreation resources, and marshes on Utah Lake - all of which will be completely destroyed or seriously impacted by CUP developments. Since Utah's elected representatives have consistently stated that Utah cannot survive or develop without federally developed water, have silenced media discussion of both environmental and cost issues of the Project, have downplayed the significance of recreation and wildlife resources belonging to the nation, and, since the Bureau of Reclamation has based economic justification of CUP on a "Rube Goldberg" water development involving an entire mountain range, the Uintas, in northeast Utah - our CRCUP group put together an Issues Paper to explain the real facts. We are sending you here an Economic Analysis of the Bonneville Unit, CUP, by Professor Thomas Power, Department of Economics, University of Montana, as well as conclusions of a report by Salt Lake County Attorney, Paul Van Dam, detailing viable alternatives to the State for efficient water management which negate the need for CUP until the year 2,000, if at all. We prepared a cos Bonneville Unit and sent this t September to enable citizens to of the Project. We believe the include necessary cost items in question, as does Professor Powe of 1:1 of the Bureau. The Powe to be not greater than .32 bene t questionnaire on the o Secretary Andrus in early determine the real costs Bureau has neglected to its calculations and we r, the cost/benefit ratio r Analysis states this ratio fit for every dollar spent. To date, we have not yet received any written answer, even after repeated efforts to obtain these. The Bureau is now trying to get CRCUP members to meet for an "oral discussion" of Bureau methods of calculations. |
