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<br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br /> <br />16 <br /> <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br /> <br />MODERATOR: Thank you, Hr. Bracksieck. <br />Our next speaker is .Hr. George Bracksieck. <br /> <br />MH. BRACKSIECI{: My name is George Bracksieck, and I <br /> <br />7' ive near Durango, Colorado, and my father and I own the land <br /> <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br /> <br />some of the land in Big Soap Park. <br /> <br /> <br />Firat, I would like to call attention to what I think <br /> <br /> <br />is an error in the Draft Environmental statement on page C3. <br /> <br /> <br />There's a table, table cl, about the vegetation changes due to <br /> <br /> <br />construction of Soap Park Dam and Milly K. Goodwin Lake, and <br /> <br /> <br />instead of li.stingacres of pasture, 130 acres of pasture, they <br /> <br />14 list 130 acres of grassland that will baa permanent loss there.. . <br />15 That does happen to be excell~nt pasture land, it raises a lot <br />16 of beef, it's irrigated, and I have irrigated the land and <br />17 helped run cattle up there, and I think -- well, besides that <br />18 <br />irrigated land, we have surrounding the area open range.that is <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />19 <br />used by Mr. Dixon from Gunnison to run his cattle on. Cattle <br /> <br />20 <br />occupy the area from June to pctober, and so there's a~lot of <br /> <br />food generated up in that area, and that's going to be all put <br />under water. Our private land, what little of it is remaining <br />above water, will be condemned by the government and they will <br /> <br />pay us what they. think it's worth, not what we think it's worth, <br />25 <br />which brings me to another comment. Thera are manv caa~n whnrp. <br />