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Show 3. Breakdown of the Issues, continued. w r>r 0 A. J5 The CUP as only alternative proposed for water supply for Ute Tribe. Steve Boyden is Salt Lake Attorney for Ute ~ Tribal Council. I have been told that Steve Boyden has pursuaded the Ute Tribal Council at Ft. Duchesne that the CUP is a "bird in hand" for their water supply and should be supported. In the fall of 1977, I discussed the issue of alternatives with him in Salt Lake City.^I particularly discussed alternatives to damming Whiterocks Canyon. He said there were nonewhich were"feasible"and gave me the name of a consulting engineer in Montana called in by the Ute Tribe to study alternatives to this dam proposal.* I called the Engineer who said the Bureau had considered a number of alternatives for constructing the dam in *he Canyon, but none were"feasibleV.Off the cuff, the Engineer told me he thought, as did I, that a Whiterocks River Canyon Dam would be a tragedy. The Forest Service has tried to oppose this construction. The Canyon contains unique species of carex found nowhere else on the Uinta Range as well as the most diverse botanic variety. The Canyon is the entranceway to outstanding wilderness lands. Y Ooppppoo:s ition to Deferral Agreement of 1965 and to CUP development within Interior and among Utes. At the time of the Deferral Agreement proposal, there was opposition in Interior/BIA.** This was seen by yp those representing Indian interests to be the rip-off of the Indians it was. A Cathy Collard, attorney in Salt Lake Xcity, whom Gerry Kinghorn sent me to talk with about the differences of opinion among the Utes at the time the Deferral Agreement was set up, told me she has enough information "to blow the CUP apart". However Ms. Collard was unable in September to talk with me at length since she was then involved in a law suit on the Church/State issue in Ogden. She has not been willing to involve herself in the efforts of CRCUP and apparently wants to go to Washington herself with the charges. Several efforts I made to speak with the Attorney for the dissident Utes in Boulder, Colorado, last Christmas, were not responded to. Since I had not time to go to Ft. Duchesne and speak with Ruby Black, Tribal Council leader, before I had to return to Wisconsin, I had no opportunity to ascertain the freedom of thinking about a number o«f issues held by the Tribal Council. Therefore, I do not know - - whether the Utes want non-structural alternatives in supplying their water since they do have apparently strong opinions about protecting stream fisheries. **Kinghorn has correspondence and name of the individual. *"feasibility is always predicated on cheaper costs of supporting a dam on canyon walls. |
