Show Conservancy district issues resolution on Bonneville Unit The Central Utah Water Conservancy District passed a resolution this week concerning the withdrawal of funds on the Bonneville Central Utah Water Project The resolution requesting the full budget of 36 million for the CUP work during the fiscal year 1978 is as follows WHEREAS the people of Utah in order to meet their water requirements are depending upon waters to be made available through the construction of the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project and Wh WHEREAS the United States is committed to the delivery of said water supplies by existing and binding contractual agreements entered into in good faith with the Central Utah Water Conservancy District and WHEREAS water agencies within the State of Utah are depending upon Bonneville Unit water delivers and have made extensive range long-range and irretrievable investments in water treatment storage and distribution facilities and WHEREAS if II Bonneville Unit water deliveries are further delayed it would result In a moratorium on residential and commercial construction and energy and industrial development within n areas of the State of 01 Utah and WHEREAS det detailed and extensive engineering and economic evaluations considering con con- all aU alternative courses of action have been completed and support the continued ongoing construction of the Bonneville Unit and WHEREAS extensive comprehensive environmental studies consistent with the National Environmental Policy have been prepared reviewed and processed according to the requirements of this Act with continued environmental studies are being made on the Bonneville Unit WHEREAS the adequacy of these Environmental Studies and findings portraying tradeoffs tradeoffs trade trade- offs and consequences of development were recently confirmed and upheld by the Federal District and Appellate Courts and WHEREAS for over 30 years the construction of the Bonneville Bonneville Bonneville Bon Bon- neville Unit has been actively supported by Utah's Legislatures Utah's Utah Governors Governors Gover Gover- nors its Congressional Delegations the Ute Indian Tribe the Legislative and Executive Branches of the Federal Government and overwhelmingly by the citizens citizen of the State of Utah NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Central Utah Water Conservancy District strenuously objects to the action of the President of the United States State in deleting funds in his Fiscal Year 1978 Budget Amendment i for construction construction con con- of the Bonneville nonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project and andt BE t- t IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Central Utah Water Conservancy District requests that not less Jess than be appropriated for lor Fiscal Year 1978 to provide for lor an optimum construction program for the Bonneville Unit and that the construction of cJ If all units of the Central Utah Project be expedited so that they can meet the lie existing and rapidly growing water requirements for both Indians and non Indians within the State of Utah |