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SUMMARY (Continued) 230-kV and 1.4 miles of 46-kV lines. Three switchyards and one substa- tion would be constructed. Recreation facilities and fishery mitigation would be provided, a limited reservoir fishery would be created, some flood control would be accomplished in Sixth Water Creek and Diamond Fork, and wildlife losses would be mitigated. The No Power Alternative would include a tunnel and pipeline as conveyance works. No powerplants would be provided. Road construction would consist of 4.7 miles of existing roads to be upgraded. Since project water would be conveyed entirely in the Diamond Fork Pipeline, this alternative would have a beneficial impact on the existing fishery resource in the Diamond Fork drainage. Wildlife mitigation measures would be at a much reduced scale from the other alternatives because of lesser impacts. Recreation facilities would also be provided by this alternative. Recommended Plan of Development On the basis of economic) engineering, and environmental factors, as well as information received from the public, the Fifth Water Pumped Storage Alternative was selected as the recommended plan of development. The recommended plan includes Fifth Water Dam, Dike, and Reservoir; Monks Hollow Dam and Reservoir; Fifth Water Pumped Storage Powerplant; and Syar, Monks Hollow, and Diamond Fork flow-through powerplants. The powerplants would have a total combined capacity of 1,147 MW. The Fifth Water Powerplant would be located in an underground chamber 400 feet long, 800 feet wide, and 170 feet high. Conveyllnce works would consist of Syar Tunnel, Syar Penstock, two Fifth Water penstocks, two Fifth Water discharge tunnels, and the Diamond Fork Pipeline. Addition- ally, because the Fifth Water Pumped Storage Powerplant would be under- ground, an access tunnel, an access and utility shaft, and a ventilation shaft would be constructed. A switchyard would be built at each of the four powerplants, and two separate transmission lines would connect the Syar and Monks Hollow Switchyards with the central Fifth Water Switch- yard. A third transmission line would connect the Fifth Water Switchyard to the Sheep Creek Substation in Spanish Fork Canyon where the power would be tied to the existing interconnected transmission system. A separate transmission line would connect the Diamond Fork Switchyard with the interconnected system at the mouth of Diamond Fork Canyon. Recrea- tion facilities would provide about 100,400 recreation-days annually and would include full-use areas at Fifth Water and in the lower Diamond Fork area and a day-use area at Monks Hollow Reservoir. Two existing camp- grounds would be enlarged to replace two which would be abandoned. Trailheads would be provided at two sites. Diamond Fork below Monks Hollow Dam would be considerably enhanced as a fishery and limited flat-water fisheries would be created in Fifth Water and Monks Hollow Reservoirs. Mitigation for big game and other wildlife habitat losses would consist of the acquisition, habitat improvement, and management of about 4,440 acres of private land for wildlife. S-4