Show Colo River environmental I statement meeting to be here t 4 I lh The Th Bureau of Reclamation has scheduled a meeting InVernal in inVernal inVernal Vernal on Tuesday October 11 at 7 pm p.m. at ut the Vernal Lamplighter Lam Lame plighter to 10 give the public an opportunity to comment on a planned Comprehensive Environmental Environmental En En- Impact Statement assessing development of future Bureau of Reclamation water waler resource projects in the Colorado River Basin Dasin The Vernal meeting is the only one scheduled for Utah I Eight other meetings have been 11 Scheduled for Arizona r. r It Wyoming New Newt k t k e I Colorado and Nevada the Iw purpose of the meetings so UI develop u a Colorado River Environmental I n pact Statement to comply k th th provisions of the National Li LI Policy Polley Act fording e cr Ir ing to Reclamations Reclamation's Upper Colorado Regional Director David L. L Crandall Crandall advised that the statement will describe existing environmental conditions and expected cumulative environmental environmental en en- effects of future Reclamation water resource development in the Colorado River Inver Basin and that the cumulative environmental analysis will be prepared In close coordination between the Upper and Lower Colorado Regions The Basin is divided at Lees Lee's Ferry in northern Arizona The Reclamation official pointed out that the statement will summarize the status and history of facilities that existed on the Colorado River in 1976 By using a progressive trend analysis to arrive at the 1976 baseline the existing environmental environmental environmental en en- conditions on the river will be described The cumulative environmental impacts expected from future projects whether they come from major changes In the opera operation of existing projects projects proposed for construction construction construction con con- or projects under understudy understudy understudy study in the Colorado River Basin will be he estimated and superimposed on the baseline Public meetings will be he conducted to discuss proposed procedures that thal will be he followed in developing the statement as asto asto asto to physical boundaries to be covered environmental in inventory inventory inventory in- in studies to be he undertaken undertaken undertaken un un- un- un and to receive suggestions for refinement of the final outline and procedures for completion of the Comprehensive Comprehensive Com Coin Statement |