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<br />ENVIRONMENTAL <br />ACTIVITIES <br /> <br /> <br />In fiscal year 1974. draft environmental <br />statements were initiated on Jensen <br />Unit of the Central Utah Project, and <br />on Dallas Creek. Dolores, and Fruitland <br />Mesa Projects in western Colorado. <br />Draft environmental statements were <br />completed and filed with the Council on <br />Environmental Quality; for Utah Power <br />and light Company's second unit of <br />Huntington Canyon Generating Station: <br />and for the proposed sale of 125.000 <br />acre. feet of municipal and industrial <br />water from Fontenelle Reservoir to the <br />Stale of Wyoming. <br /> <br />Studies were mitiated to determine the <br />environmental impacts on archeology, <br />fish. wildlife. recreation, and aesthetics <br />of alternative dam and reservoir sites <br />for China Meadows Reservoir on the <br />Lyman Project. <br /> <br />The Bureau of Reclamation will be the <br />lead Federal agency in the writing of <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br />the environmental statements for both <br />EI Paso Natural Gas Company and <br />Western Gasification Company. Water <br />wIll be supplied from the Navajo Reser- <br />voir to both 01 these coal gasification <br />plants in the Four Corners area. The <br />statements are well on their way to <br />completion. <br /> <br />The Upper Colorado Region is assisting <br />the Bureau of Land Management in <br />review and preparation of draft envi. <br />ronmental statements on proposals for <br />coal.fired, thermal.electric generating <br />stations at Kaiparowits, Emery, Warner <br />Valley, and Intermountain Power Proj. <br />ect sites in the State of Utah. <br /> <br />On the Seedskadee Project, releases <br />from Fontenelle ReserVOIr were regu. <br />lated to allow Fish and Wildlife Service <br />and the State of Wyoming to conduct <br />studies to determine the effects of var. <br />ious riverflows on downstream fishing. <br />It was concluded from these studies <br />that a joint Department of the Interior. <br />State of Wyoming reservoir operating <br />plan will have to be formulated for <br />Fontenelle Reservoir each year for the <br />ensuing years, which will have as one <br />of its objectives the enhancement of <br />stream fishery, provided such regulation <br />does not interfere with other water <br />rights on the river. <br /> <br />REVEGETATION <br /> <br />A major revegetation effort was under- <br />taken on the Bonneville Unit of areas <br />previously disturbed by construction of <br />Starvation Dam, Soldier Creek Dam, <br />Water Hollow, and layout Creek Tun. <br />nels. Eight hundred sixty. six acres of <br />land were seeded to a variety of <br />grasses, with a portion of that area also <br />planted with shrubs. A portable irriga. <br />tion system was acquired. set up, and <br />operated at the Starvation Reservoir <br />area to assist in the revegetation effort. <br />