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Show Citizens for a Responsible Central Utah Project Board of Directors Dorothy Harvey, co-chairperson Fred Reimherr, co-chairperson Beth Duncan David Freed (Carl Heidenreich Peter Hovingh David Littlefield Dave McCormick Barbara Polich lames Talley Harll Wixom Supporting Organizations • Utah Council. Trout Unlimited •Rocky Mountian Council of the Federation of Fly Fishermen • Utah Member Clubs of the Federation o( 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 Jan. 24, 1979 The Honorable Henry M. Jackson Room 137 Russell Senate Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Jackson: I am a long-time resident of Wisconsin who has spent the last eight summers in the Rocky Mountain region trying to improve management of resources on public lands. Specifically, I have carried out field studies on roadless areas on National Forests for wilderness classification purposes and pushed to upgrade management and protection of wildlife habitat and the recreation associated with these resources. I remained in Utah last year helping to form a coalition group to get a handle on one of the nation's most environmentally disastrous and economically unjustifiable water development projects - the Central Utah Project. In Utah, this project has been pushed by water developers, in cooperation with elected officials, by silencing the media, the State Division of Wildlife Resources and University and State citizens from carrying out open discussion of environmental and cost issues. It wasn't until last summer that information was available on both the cost issue and on alternatives for State water management which negate the necessity for the CUP until the year 2,000 - if at all. Professor Power, University of Montana Economics Dep't, prepared "An Economic Analysis of the Bonneville Unit, CUPn which stated that the Bureau of Reclamation claimed cost/benefit ratio Is not 1:1 but for every $1 spent, only .32 benefit results. In addition, the nation's taxpayers are underwriting some 7,000 northern Utah farms at over a million dollar per farm.( He questioned also, the bases on which the Bureau calculated economic feasibility for the Project. Our CRCUP coalition has prepared an Issues Paper providing this information on the Bonneville Unit economic analysis as well as the reports of the Salt Lake County Attorney on all the water supply options available to the State in lieu of the costly federally developed water. We can send this to you, should you wish it, as the basis for consideration for continued funding. As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, it would be helpful if vou can advice our CRCUP group whether or not there is a ^change of |
