[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 2 (Friday, January 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 400-401]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-75]


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UTAH RECLAMATION MITIGATION AND CONSERVATION COMMISSION


Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Assessment for 
the Rehabilitation or Replacement of Diversion Dams on the Duchesne and 
Strawberry Rivers in UT

AGENCY: Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Assessment 
for the Rehabilitation or Replacement of Diversion Dams on the Duchesne 
and Strawberry Rivers in Utah.

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SUMMARY: The Central Utah Project Completion Act (Pub. L. 102-575) 
authorized federal funds to rehabilitate diversion dams on the Duchesne 
and Strawberry Rivers in Utah. The project is needed to reduce adverse 
affects on fish and wildlife resources.
    The Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA) was prepared as a 
Programmatic document. It discusses potential environmental impacts 
associated with reconstructing and operating an unspecified diversion 
dam on the Duchesne or Strawberry River. The new diversion dam could 
serve single or multiple diversion rights. Potential environmental 
impacts addressed in the document are those impacts that would be 
expected regardless of which diversion dam is rehabilitated. Potential 
impacts to wetlands, threatened and endangered species, and cultural 
resources are generally site specific and/or require special permits. 
Potential impacts to these environmental disciplines would be addressed 
in a Supplemental Environmental Assessment, if needed.
    The DEA provides the public and decision makers information to 
understand and evaluate potential environmental consequences. The DEA 
was developed with the public in accordance with the Commissions 
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Rule (43 CFR part 10010.20).
    The DEA is related to other potential future actions, specifically 
the detailed design and implementation of diversion dam replacements or 
rehabilitation. The programmatic perspective has been considered in the 
document. Future

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construction projects may require separate or supplemental NEPA 
compliance.

DATES: Written comments on the Draft Environmental Assessment are 
invited until January 31, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Address all comments and/or requests for further information 
to Mark Holden, Projects Manager, Utah Reclamation Mitigation and 
Conservation Commission, 102 West 500 South, Suite 315, Salt Lake City, 
UT, 84101.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Holden, Projects Manager, 801-
524-3146. [email protected].

    Dated: December 23, 2002.
Michael C. Weland,
Executive Director.
[FR Doc. 03-75 Filed 1-2-03; 8:45 am]
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