Show Local reclamation projects i t I under presidential review r view The Carter Carler administration is looking at al all 71 other Western reclamation projects this week while preparing to lo allow a last appeal on the Bonneville Unit The remaining reclamation projects will be judged by the same stringent new criteria being applied to the Central Utah Project Those standards include no important environmental damage or safety hazard and the benefit cost ratio ralio must reach at least 1 in benefits for each 1 in construction costs In jeopardy under this second-round second review are the Jensen Vernal and Lyman units of the CUP Modifications to lo the Flaming Gorge power plant where bids were sharply more than estimates probably also will be reconsidered Even the nearly complete Emery County project may be examined although can can- there would save little and is not expected IN CASES where a few more dollars will give the entire benefits involved in the projects they will be spent under the administrations administration's guidelines The environmental and safety safely aspects of each project are far more subjective and are impossible impossible impossible im im- im- im possible to lo predict now The Jensen unit has an estimated total cost of 34 million of which 3 million has been spent The Lyman project will cost 27 million and million in work was completed through Oct 1 TilE THE VERNAL and Emery County units are so close to lo completion that they are not believed in jeopardy The Ford budget for this year included for project drains in Emery County and for Vernal drains While the Uintah Upalco and andUle Ute Ule Indian projects are not included in the present review since they are still in the planning stage the tighter lighter criteria will be applied to them when the time lime comes for possible budgeting administration administration administration ad ad- ministration aides said Utah water officials were in Washington Monday attempting attempting attempting at at- tempting to expedite a safety review of the Dam on the Jensen unit The Bureau of Reclamation advertised for forbids forbids forbids bids February 1 The would like to lo see seethe seethe seethe the safety question settled before the bids are opened so work could get under way at once Bureau of Reclamation officials officials of of- said it was questionable whether the Dam contract will be awarded pending completion of the entire review process now under way |