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Show Citizens for a Responsible Central Utah Project Board of Directors Dorothy Harvey, co-chairperson (red Reimherr. co-chairperson Beth Duncan David Freed Karl Heidenreich Peler Hovingh David Littlefield Dave McCormick Barbara Polich lames Talley Hartt Wixom Supporting Organizations 'Utah Council. Trout Unlimited ••Rocky Mountian Council oi the Federation oi Fly Fishermen »Utah Member Clubs oi the Federation of Fly Fishermen "Stonefly Society of the Wastach Salt lake City. Utah •Orr Royal Coachman t Crove. Utah »Uta on 1445 N. 10 St. Manitowoc, Wisconsin 54220 Feb. 16, 1979 Dear David: I have been kept informed of CUP developments and CRCUP activities from Fred, via phone or brief notes, and from Brian Beard, Conservation Chairman, Sierra Club, Logan, with a continuous supply of newspaper articles and written communications of the Sierra Club to the Bureau of Reclamation. I have explained the whole thrust of my activity for CRCUP since leaving Utah in the enclosed pink letter to CRCUP members. I have felt that the issue of CUP development is undergirded with enormously powerful and not always identifiable entities who will benefit economically from CUP development. I believe any opposition effort must have broader support from the Administration, itself, and from environmental groups and from Congress - if we are to ever effectively stop this project. The purposes of its development tie in with power supply for California, for example, and with the whole chain of construction suppliers. So, I have concentrated, to date, on supplying a great deal of background information on all aspects of the CUP development - environmental, costs, alternatives - to key people in the Administration, Congress and Washington-based water project environmental groups. This activity has taken me all this time. But I feel confident, now, that CUP issues are known in Washington and that Washington can see that Utah has, in fact, developed an informed and potentially effective opposition. I have worked closely with Brent Blackwelder, Environmental Policy Center, Washington, taking the lead on strategy against water developers and have kept Fred continually informed. CRCUP has grown in its understanding of the role of political activism. As I have told Hartt Wixom, in the enclosed letter, we are dealing with a political issue and need to develop our own political sophistication and realities. I have also kept up pressure on the BuRec. to provide us written answers to our cost questionnaire - through letters to Secretary AndY^s, and to Administration Departments working on water and cost issues and to Environmental groups. A meeting with the BuRec. is finally to take place Feb. 23, but we have planned the strategy to accomplish getting answers we want without getting the run around from the Bureau. I'm waiting to hear back from Guy Martin's Office*now, in response to a conversation we had yesterday, about this meeting. I am requesting that the BuRec. request the presence of Gerry Kinghorn as a condition of the meeting. *U)(d*+, H ^6^-4 ^ T U A O O , 2)-***>•+- -T ^W^/v*-ro |
