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Show T Page 26 - UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. November 24. 1998 Water officials warn lawmakers of messing with CUP money tatives that the federally appointed Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission has threatened to condemn their land. URMCC is acquiring land alongside four streams to improve angler access and fish habitat To date, it has obtained land on 43 stream miles out of 51 miles targeted. The work is part of an extensive environmental mitigation plan required by a 1992 law authorizing completion of the CUP, a complex system of dams and diversions that bring water from the Uinta Mountains to the Wasatch Front. Don URMCC Chairman Christianson said the mitigation is linked to the CUP. We do the mitigation or we dont get the money to Associated Press Water officials are warning the Utah Legislature not to meaa with reclamation funding for the Central Utah Project, saying such meddling could imperil the massive water project's completion. Lawmakers are worried that the federal government will take property in order to improve fish and wildlife habitat impacted by the CUP. If they do, some legislators say theyll withhold the state's $3 million contribution to the project's environmental fund. And if that happens, the federal government might just 8 top money to the CUP altogether, stranding a multibillion dollar, decades-lon- g project vital to the states economic wellpri-va- te being. The controversy began a few months ago, when landowners in Wasatch and Duchesne counties complained to their state represen it .& path. He said the federal government's willingness to finance the CUP depends largely on the state's willingness to contribute to the fund, which eventually will be administered by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. New road to Constitution Park now roughed in Its still a few years down the road, but preliminary work is being done on the road that will provide a second access route into Constitution Park. Burdick Paving is roughdo the water projects, said ing in the road that will travel 200 South to the south side of Christianson, who also is manager along the park. of the Central Utah Water ConserWere putting a culvert in, and vancy District. clearing and grading it, said City Sen. Alarik Myrin, said he was not aware the act also Administrator Brad Hancock. You authorized the government to con- can actually drive on it like a dirt demn land and has called on the road, but its still pretty rough. Engineers estimate it will cost URMCC to explain the situation. This puts a black mark on the whole about $500,000 to pave the road, but Hancock said the city hopes to thing," said Myrin, the lame-duc- k it done for less. The money will get chairman of the legislative Natural come from a of Resources, Agricultural and Envisales tax which city resironment Interim Committee. dents last year to be earHe noted that landowners along markedapproved for new roads and road imCreek Currant and the Strawberry provements. But with more pressRiver feel the governments mitigaing projects ahead of the road on tion project will ruin their liveli200 South, it will still be about two hood or reduce the value of their more years before that money will property. Some members ofthe com- be available to pave the new road to mittee wondered whether the Constitution Park, said Hancock. URMCC could do restoration The city is working on repairing projects in other areas and leave the roads which sustained extensive private property owners alone. from flooding last spring. Christianson said the properties damage Work on south State Street is dein question were specifically identibecause of high water flows in fied in the 1992 act, which was put layed the gulch, said Hancock, but the together with the approval of the road base has been stabilized. Utah congressional delegation. To do environmental mitigation elsewhere would require the of the CUP, a situation that could jeopardize its completion. Christianson assured the committee that the URMCC will use condemnation as a last resort. Though Myrins committee has no authority over the URMCC, it could influence the Legislature not fund to contribute to a state-federset up for the future operation and maintenance of the habitat lands. Christianson advised them to be very careful if they start down that one-quart- er NEW ROUTE TO PARK-Ro- ad crews from Burdick Paving work on extending 200 South to Constitution Park. The road will be paved in about two years when the city can afford to do the work. 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