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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 karl Heidenreich Peter Hovingh David Littletield Dave McCormick Barbara Polich lames 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 Manitowoc, January St. Wisconsin 54220 25, 1979 The Honorable Robert Kastenmeier 2232 Rayburn Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Mr. Kastenmeier: I am who has spent the last e region trying to improve lands. Specifically, I on roadless areas on Nat classification purposes and protection of wildll with these. I remained a coalition group to get most environmentally dis fiable water development Project. a long-time resident of Wisconsin ight summers in the Rocky Mountain management of resources on public have carried out field studies ional Forests for wilderness and pushed to upgrade management fe habitat and recreation associated in Utah last year helping to form a handle on one of the nation's astrous and economically unjusti-projects - the Central Utah In Utah, this 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 employed 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 Dep't of Economics,prepared an "Economic Analysis ofthe Bonneville Unit, CUP" which stated that the Bureau 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. In your position in the House Interior Committee, it would be helpful if you can advise our CRCUP whether or not there is a change of purpose for the Strawberry Collection System of the Bonneville Unit and |
