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<br />"~'y-,~ <br />_01. <br /> <br />'--..' <br /> <br /> <br />AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION <br /> <br />, .. <br /> <br />: ~::!.--::. ~~"':'"-:-- <br /> <br />~::.~--:. <br />.' <br /> <br />0299 <br /> <br />Clarence Stclne. Center <br />Ch.lrm.n <br /> <br />-:-. -. ~;~. <br /> <br />WHlj3m A.. Stephen'.. Gypsum <br />Vic.-Chaif7rl3n <br /> <br />:: ~ --- IJ :-,.' <br /> <br />~. Joe D. lla11. Region.a1. Direc~r <br />Lo.er ~ssouri Region <br />Bureeu of Recl22ation <br />u. S. De?erment of the btado;: <br />Buil<iing 20 <br />Denver Federal Center <br />~en7er. CO 80225 <br /> <br />February 20, 1976 <br />76-520-0125 <br /> <br />I' <br /> <br />Ben" Ea51mat'i. Hotchkiss <br />John ... UalloV. Oenver <br />M. C. McCormick. Holly <br />EUon Miner, fort ,"upton <br />lCay O. Morison. Fleming <br />Willian H. Webster. Greeley <br />l,ennelh G. Wilmore, Denver <br /> <br />COLO~L\:)O D~p_\Rn!ENT OF AGRICULTURE <br /> <br />=":-.i..:.:.... s....'!-::-;-~:'\ <br />C~=.-:y :=~'ss.=~.~~f' <br /> <br />.t:l5 57..\'j'"E S:::RVICES BUILDING <br />t~ SH::P.MAN STREET <br />t:E.'''.'::n. eOL..ORAOO 80203 <br /> <br />1,REG.E\V F~.. :.; ~l <br />f~ f. :~~ ~ - 1~,",';",:,~ ' <br />~...;~ .1-'- _ ... <br /> <br />0\\/' ,\ <br />,!': ~~::~:~~d <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />Dear Mr. Ball: <br /> <br />I e2 ~4iting to you to share SO-~ comments on the draft Environmental Impact <br />.Stete=e,,-t on the proposed ~u_,. Unit (project LM-150; 500 Narrows). My <br />co=e.nts 'idll be related t<> ""--= ~...estions which naturally come to mind when <br />agricultural interests are cO=5!d=re~. <br /> <br />1. R.:Jw "'''''y acres of a.r!ccltt::-a.l land will be taken out of production ~ <br />~ rasult of th" pro"o:=d :>ro; act? <br /> <br />rne draft EIS es~'~'tes ~~ 42 465 acres of land will be acquired, <br />and that an accitio=1. 2315 a::res of land will be withdrawn from public <br />dcr...a.in. (I reier to ~"-~ cc-~ined area as the take ~ below.) IJowever. <br />the total of these e=D~t5 d<>2S not necessarily represent the total estimate <br />of lend affected by t~a project. For example, can it happen that the take <br />line cuts a fam in =. "'~= that only the portion of the farm inside the <br />taka Ii!!" :is counted? If so. then the total of the parcels of farmland out- <br />side the t~e area _~cb ara too scalI to be farmed efficiently needs to be <br />est~ted in orc,,;: to "'-~e;: ~uestion l. In addition, an estimate of the <br />=unt of agricultural !.e::.:! near the project which is likely to be Con- <br />verted to subdivisioa cevelc?=ent is needed to answer 1 more completely; <br />(Tais is ~el!tiol!ed on page I>-48 of the draft EIS, but no estimates of <br />,I affe~ted acr"ag" are ?::-o~c;c.) I suggest that estimates of these types <br />} '/ba prepered for the f;~,l EIS.' Of course, estimates of total acreage <br />) affected by the pro?o:~ project is not in itself sufficient. Affected <br />acreage pst~tes, dis=g5Y~t"d according to both soil capability classes <br />end current lend usa. a::-e e!so needed. On pages IV-21 and IV-22. the draft <br />EIS aoes provice acreage "s~~~"'tes by current land use within the take area. <br />Eo~e,"r. the draft EI5 C02S I!<>t provide acreage estimates by soil capability <br />classes w~thin th~ ta~~ cr~. (~nat it does provide are acreage estimates <br />by soil capahility classes for the service area: see page 111-62.) I <br />sugg"st toat tbis i...ro~t!~1! be provided in the final EIS types using <br />the detailed soil SU~eY =s?S of }illrgan County and Weld County published <br />by tb~ Soil COu32rv~~io~ S2~C~. <br /> <br />, <br />