Municipal and Industrial System, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah: correspondence and documents, 1979

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/ THtXTVY JLXXXATO: BUREAU-0?-RKGLAMAT4©^- WASHINGTON, D.C 2024O 0 E C 14 1979 MEMORANDUM To: From: Assistant Secretary - Land and Water Resources Commissioner, Water and Power Resources Service o<= t-o Issues Raised by the Environmental <^ Subject: Responses to Issues . « * he F i n al Protection Agency sR.view le U n i t M & i Environmental Statement System, Central Utah Project . -, iQ7Q with EPA Deputy At the meeting held on December 7, 19/*# , Washington Administrator Blum and representatives fro ^ ^ ^ s and Denver Offices, we wer i..-or„.e foj, fchis raised by EPA n t h . " " ' " ^ ^ . %* staff would project were satisfac.or-iy - wt the pro]ect be recommend to Administr^o Environmental Quality as referred to the Council on Emiron^en ^ ^ ^ EpA -environmentally unsatisfactory to m a k e t h xa Administrator has « | ?"tu.ory ciean ftir A c t# determination under Sec^on ~*A the inevitable delays associated with In an effort to avoid the ™ e ™ f u l l y considered the the referral Process, x "•'• c » recc4nendations for statements made by E?A ana . ^ Q u r neeting (see mitigation, which were distr ^ recomraendati0ns are Enclosure 1). u u r c e s tu shown on Enclosure 2. I vould add that EPA has again raised ^ M ^ ^ L ^ the thought had ^een reviewed by both^h^ ^ ^ Congress, and *•£*•_££•„- decided to pursue again the construction. The Go%ernor salinity instream flow issue. -he two issu instream fishery impacts on downstream water f ^ . ^ f ^ c a n meet most, if losses in the Uinta Basin. ^ »e±i fche exceptlon not all, of the specific reco,^fmtnimum streamflow of a long-torn commitment to the min term releases releai^sT^i^you know, ,ne^°;15"°nth° cooperation of the are currently beingf-n-cted w th th^coo^ consistent with ^rpr^ident-s wateerCpolicy, which states that, "New and W f f »V «' '"**.**••