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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
 

Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the 
Proposed Greybull Irrigation Dam, Cheyenne, WY

AGENCIES: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, DOD; U.S. 
Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming, DOI.

SPONSORS: Greybull Valley Irrigation District, Emblem, Wyoming; Wyoming 
Water Development Commission, Cheyenne, Wyoming.

ACTION: Notice of intent.

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SUMMARY: The proposed action is to construct a 150-foot high zoned 
earth embankment dam at the lower end of Roach Gulch, a dry tributary 
to the Greybull River. The dam would be 1700 feet long with a 150-foot 
wide earth channel spillway on the left abutment, and would be located 
primarily in the SW\1/4\SW\1/4\ of Section 23, T 51 N, R 98 W of Big 
Horn county. Water from the Greybull River would be diverted by means 
of a gated structure and delivered to the reservoir area via a 6-mile 
supply canal, some of which is existing. Water would be released from 
the dam back into the Greybull River by means of an 1100-foot earth 
channel, providing late-season irrigation water for 25,000 acres in the 
lower Greybull Valley. The project may provide secondary fishery 
benefits by providing winter minimum flows from the proposed dam and 
Upper and Lower Sunshine Reservoirs. The Greybull River Valley is 
located in southern Park and Big Horn counties in northwest Wyoming, 
approximately 25 miles southeast of Cody, Wyoming.
    Alternatives being evaluated by the applicant include similar 
diversions into Blackstone Gulch or Rawhide Creek, as well as the 
enlargement of Upper Sunshine Reservoir, an existing storage reservoir. 
Conservation of existing water supplies, utilization of groundwater, as 
well as the ``no action'' alternative will be considered.

DATES: Public Scoping Meeting, October 26, 1994, 7:00 p.m. Emblem Gym, 
3400 Road 10, Emblem, Wyoming.

ADDRESSES: Omaha District, Army Corps of Engineers, ATTN: CEMRO-PD-M, 
215 N. 17th St., Omaha, Nebraska 68102-4978.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Robert S. Nebel, Chief, 
Environmental Analysis, Planning Division, (402) 221-4598.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Future Schedule

    Following review of comments received during scoping, data 
collection and analysis will begin for the Draft Environmental Impact 
Statement (DEIS). The Corps anticipates that the DEIS will be released 
for public review in June 1995. A Final Environmental Impact Statement 
is anticipated to be completed in early 1996.
Kenneth L. Denton,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 94-23470 Filed 9-21-94; 8:45 am]
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