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Show 3. - the protection of wilderness, wildlife, and recreation resources threatened by logging,mineral, water and highway developments. - determining wilderness potential in the State through Forest Service and BLM Roadless Area Reviews. - preventing emasculation of Federal land and resource management Agencies through tying their hands in policy and administratiVe decisions by this Congressional action There has already been collusion between the Forest Service and the Bureau of Reclamation on CUP. * - development of Kapairowitz coal by IPP and Utah Power and Light. Presently U P & L has requested and obtained water rights for CUP water through Strawberry Collection M & I System for development at Lynndyl site. NOTE - development of oil shale. Since many of these issues are applicable to oil shale development, itself, and its location, the State would benefit by having these issues "non-discussable" through Congressional legislation. All these issues are involved in oil shale development: wildlife resources, R & E species, non-degradation of streams, National Resource Waters, water quality and its concommitant quantity, Clean Air quality, Wild and Scenic Rivers, Floodplain protection, salinity of the Colorado River, Roadless Area Reviews by BLM. By Congressionally legislating Indian jurisdiction over wildlife and fish*and CUP development, these other laws and regulations could be nullified? Neat, isn't it? Even Interior is over a barrel, then, when it comes to oil shale development issues. The Indian Issue, then, becomes the cover-up! *I don't know the southern boundary of the "original" tribal lands. (}**- the White River and oil shale tracts Ua and Ub in? |
