[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 100 (Monday, May 24, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29567-29568]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-11641]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR


Central Utah Project Completion Act

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

ACTION: Notice of intent to negotiate contracts and agreements among 
Interior, Central Utah Water Conservancy District (CUWCD), and other 
parties required to implement the Utah Lake Drainage Basin Water 
Delivery System as authorized in section 202(a)(1) of the Central Utah 
Project Completion Act (CUPCA), which is part of the Bonneville Unit of 
the Central Utah Project.

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SUMMARY: On March 25, 2004, Interior, CUWCD, and the Utah Reclamation 
Mitigation and Conservation Commission filed a Draft Environmental 
Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Utah Lake Drainage Basin Water Delivery 
System (Utah Lake System), Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project with 
the Environmental Protection Agency and made the draft EIS available 
for public review and comment. The draft EIS identified several 
contracts and agreements among the involved parties required to 
implement the Utah Lake System.

DATES: Dates and locations for public negotiation sessions on the 
contracts and agreements will be announced in local newspapers.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Utah Lake System is one of the systems 
of the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project that would develop 
central Utah's water resources for municipal and industrial supply, 
fish and wildlife, and recreation. The Utah Lake System Preferred 
Alternative would provide an average transbasin diversion of 101,900 
acre-feet which consists of 30,000 acre-feet of Municipal and 
Industrial (M&I) secondary water to southern Utah

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County and 30,000 acre-feet of M&I water to Salt Lake County water 
treatment plants; 1,590 acre-feet of M&I water already contracted to 
southern Utah County cities, and 40,310 acre-feet of M&I water to Utah 
Lake for exchange to Jordanelle Reservoir. The Preferred Alternative is 
analyzed in the March 2004, Utah Lake System Draft Environmental Impact 
Statement and in the March 2004, Draft Supplement to the Bonneville 
Unit Definite Plan Report. Implementation of the Utah Lake System 
requires the execution of contracts and agreements among the parties 
involved with the project. The contracts and agreements to be publicly 
negotiated will include repayment, construction, funding, water 
petitions, Warren Act conveyance, water conservation, and other related 
documents.
    Information, Comments, and Inquiries: Pursuant to the Reclamation 
Project Act of 1939, section 9(f), 43 U.S.C. 485h(f), interested 
parties may submit written data, views and arguments concerning the 
contracts and agreements to the address below. Additional information 
on matters related to this notice can also be obtained from: Mr. Reed 
Murray, 302 East 1860 South, Provo Utah, 84606, (801) 379-1237, 
[email protected].

    Dated: May 18, 2004.
Ronald Johnston,
Program Director, Department of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 04-11641 Filed 5-21-04; 8:45 am]
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