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Aspinall Unit talks resume; other options to be drafted <br />-e� 4'. <br />AClassifleds <br />Employment <br />Real Estate <br />Rentals <br />Real Estate <br />Weekly <br />Virtual Tours <br />Automotive <br />Merchandise <br />Menu <br />News <br />Obituaries <br />Nation <br />Opinion <br />The Blotter <br />Photos <br />Archives <br />Sports <br />Preps <br />College <br />Professional <br />Outdoors <br />Features <br />Out & About <br />Entertainment <br />Games <br />Food <br />You said it! <br />Travel <br />Announcements <br />Health <br />Archives <br />Money <br />Stocks <br />Lottery <br />Weather <br />National <br />Marketplace <br />In <br />Search <br />GJSentinel.com for <br />LT <br />Aspinall Unit talks resume; other options to be drafted <br />Saturday, January 22, 2005 <br />By SALLY SPAULDING <br />The Daily Sentinel <br />An on- again, off -again environmental process to protect endangered fish along a <br />series of dams and reservoirs on the Gunnison River is back on track, but the <br />decision to start the process again was news to some agencies that had <br />participated in the beginning stages. <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />During a meeting this week for the operation of the Aspinall Unit, the series of Blue <br />Mesa, Morrow Point and Crystal dams, reservoirs and power plants along the <br />Gunnison River, several stakeholders were surprised to learn the Aspinall Unit <br />Environmental Impact Statement process was back in action. <br />The Aspinall Unit Environmental Impact Statement was put on hold late last <br />summer because of internal issues with the Bureau of Reclamation, but by late <br />November of 2004, the process was resumed. <br />Currently the bureau is meeting with "cooperating agents," those organizations and <br />agencies directly involved in the process. <br />ATop J. <br />Senior Me <br />Engineer <br />Company, <br />Home He. <br />Colorado ( <br />fo......_ mor <br />Aviation <br />QC. Exper <br />FA ...... (mo <br />Tild Islan( <br />hiring for tl <br />more <br />Eagle Rid <br />Valley See <br />s & L ....... (r <br />CDL Drive <br />Class B or <br />Excellent. <br />EVENING <br />CNA certif <br />perso ... ...( <br />Con -Sy is <br />operators <br />drive ...... {n <br />Are you g <br />us? We ne <br />techn ...... (i <br />The next meeting of the agents will be Feb. 15 at 9:30 a.m. at the bureau's office in wanted: 1 <br />Grand Junction. The public may attend but can only ask questions at the end of reps for fa: <br />the usually six - hour -long sessions. product,.... <br />Some groups who are not considered "cooperating agents" believe the meetings <br />with cooperating agencies have not been publicized enough to inform the public of <br />proceedings. <br />"As a public process, the public ought to be invited to participate to the full extent," <br />said Drew Peternell, staff attorney for Trout Unlimited. <br />Steve McCall of the Bureau of Reclamation said public meetings on the process <br />will be held "toward the end of the year." <br />"Now the first of our tasks is to see how the Aspinall Unit is currently operated and <br />look at what sort of options and alternatives are out there," McCall said. <br />McCall said the bureau would be drafting different alternatives to meet the flow <br />recommendations provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The <br />recommendations provide a series of guidelines for how water flows should be <br />view <br />http: / /www.gjsentinel.com/news/ content /news /stories /2005/01/22/1_22 Aspinall_EIS.html 1/24/2005 <br />