[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 77 (Wednesday, April 22, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19932-19933]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-10650]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Assistant Secretary--Water and Science
Notice of Intent To Negotiate an Operating Agreement Among the
Central Utah Water Conservancy District, Ute Tribe--Uintah and Ouray
Reservation, United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Department
of the Interior To Provide for the Construction, Rehabilitation,
Operation, Maintenance, and Replacement of the Uintah Unit Replacement
Project of the Central Utah Project
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary--Water and Science,
Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of intent to negotiate an agreement among the Central
Utah Water Conservancy District, Ute Tribe--Uintah and Ouray
Reservation, United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Department of
the Interior to provide for the construction, rehabilitation,
operation, maintenance, and replacement of the Uintah Unit Replacement
Project of the Central Utah Project as provided in Section 201(c) of
Pub. L. 102-575.
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SUMMARY: Pub. L. 102-575, Central Utah Project Completion Act, Section
201(c), allows for the construction of the Uintah Unit Replacement
Project as part of the Central Utah Project. An operating agreement
will provide the terms associated with the construction,
rehabilitation, operation, maintenance, and replacement of each of the
features and activities associated with the Project. It will also
establish the details associated with project reservoir water storage,
accounting, and delivery. The agreement will establish the terms for
the project operation to achieve the benefits of water development for
Indians and non-Indians, protection of existing water rights, and
establish a project operation to emphasize benefit to steam flows for
fishery and other environmental enhancements
The purpose of the negotiation sessions will be to determine the
terms of the storage, accounting, and delivery of project water for the
Uintah Unit and detail the protection of existing water rights on the
associated river systems. The sessions will also determine
responsibilities for construction, rehabilitation, operation,
maintenance, and replacement of project facilities.
DATES: Dates for public negotiation sessions will be announced in local
newspapers.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Additional information on matters related to this Federal Register
Notice can be obtained at the address and telephone number set forth
below: Mr. Michael Hansen, Program Coordinator, CUP Completion Act
Office, Department of the Interior, 302 East 1860 South, Provo, UT
84606-7317, Telephone: (801) 379-1194, E-Mail address:
[email protected].
Dated: April 16, 1998.
Ralph G. Swanson,
Acting CUP Program Director, Department of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-10650 Filed 4-21-98; 8:45 am]
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