Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision on the Diamond Fork System, Central Utah Project

Résumé

On November 19, 1999, Don A. Christiansen, Chairman of the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission (Mitigation Commission) signed the Record of Decision (ROD) which documents the selection of the Proposed Action as presented in the 1999 Final Supplement to the 1984 Diamond Fork Power System Final Environmental Statement (1999 FS-FEIS; FEIS 99-25) filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on July 1, 1999. The Mitigation Commission, Central Utah Water Conservancy District and the Department of the Interior served as joint lead agencies in the preparation of the 1999 FS-FEIS. The Proposed Action and a No Action alternative are described and evaluated in the FS-FEIS upon which the ROD is based. Implementation of the Proposed Action responds to the Mitigation Commission's and the Department of the Interior's need to mitigate for impacts of the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project and other federal reclamation projects. The Proposed Action also responds to the need to transport, on average, 147,600 acre-feet of water annually from the Colorado River drainage to the Utah Lake drainage including 86,100 acre-feet of CUP water to facilitate exchanges of water