[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 16 (Tuesday, January 25, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3971-3972]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-1714]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR


Office of the Assistant Secretary--Water and Science; Central 
Utah Project Completion Act; Notice of Intent to Prepare an 
Environmental Assessment for the Diamond Fork Proposed Action 
Modifications

AGENCY:  Office of the Assistant Secretary--Water and Science, 
Department of the Interior.

ACTION:  Notice of intent to prepare an Environmental Assessment for 
the Diamond Fork Proposed Action Modifications.

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SUMMARY:  Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 
the Central Utah Water Conservancy District (CUWCD), Utah Reclamation 
Mitigation and Conservation Commission (Mitigation Commission), and the 
Department of the Interior (Interior) announces their intent to prepare 
an Environmental Assessment (EA) on the Diamond Fork Proposed Action 
Modifications.
    This EA will address modifications to the Proposed Action as a 
result of value engineering studies on the Proposed Action of the 
Diamond Fork System 1999 Final Supplement to the Final Environmental 
Impact Statement (FSFEIS) that was filed with the Environmental 
Protection Agency July 1, 1999. A Record of Decision (1999 ROD) 
documenting the selection of the Proposed Action Alternative as 
presented in the FSFEIS was signed by the Assistant Secretary--Water 
and Science on September 29, 1999. The 1999 ROD allowed for value 
engineering studies, pursuant to public law 104-

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106, to be conducted on the Proposed Action to further reduce 
environmental impacts or project construction costs. Based on value 
engineering studies the following modifications to the Proposed Action 
will be addressed in the EA: (1) Replacing a series of tunnels and 
pipelines with one tunnel and one pipeline; (2) relocating flow control 
facilities; and (3) adjusting the alignment of the Diamond Fork System. 
The proposed modifications will reduce environmental impacts and reduce 
project construction costs while not changing the Proposed Action's 
purposes or needs as described in the FSFEIS and 1999 ROD.

DATES:  Information relating to the EA will be announced in local 
newspapers and/or mailed to interested parties. Upon completion of a 
draft EA a notice of availability will be published in the Federal 
Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Harold Sersland, Environmental Program 
Manger, Central Utah Water Conservancy District, 355 West University 
Parkway, Orem, Utah 84058-7303, (801) 226-7110.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of this Notice of Intent is to 
inform the public, local, State, and Federal government agencies that 
an EA will be prepared. Information, data, opinions, and comments 
obtained on the draft EA may be used in the preparation of the final 
EA.

    Dated: January 19, 2000.
Ronald Johnston,
CUP Program Director, Department of the Interior.
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