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<br />.~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />- 12 - <br /> <br />"~ <br /> <br />During the scoping process, the lead agencies <br /> <br />identified five major issues relevant to an analysis of <br /> <br />~' <br /> <br />Deseret's proposal to build the Moon Lake Power Plant <br />*/ <br />Project.- These were: (1) comparative financial costs <br /> <br />'-- <br /> <br />of alternatives; (2) social and economic. impacts on com- <br /> <br />munities in Utah and Colorado; (3) degradation of air <br /> <br />quality; (4) impacts on endangered fish species in the <br /> <br />v <br /> <br />Green and White Rivers; and (5) effects on the salinity of <br /> <br />the Colorado River system. DEIS at 2. To the extent that <br /> <br />these major issues are discussed at all in the draft EIS, <br /> <br />however, they are lost in a maze of extraneous background <br /> <br />data rather than the focus of a significant discussion of <br /> <br />j <br /> <br />environmental issues and alternatives. Alternatives"which <br /> <br />would "avoid or minimize adverse impacts or enhance the <br /> <br />quality of the human environment" (40 C.F.R. S 1502.1) are <br /> <br />either ignored or discussed in the most cursory manner <br /> <br />possible. As the discussion that follows demonstrates, <br /> <br />this not only violates the CEQ regulations, but also makes <br /> <br />~/ Although additional issues were identified, ~ DEIS <br />at 24-25, the only treatment of those issues in the DEIS <br />consists of acknowledgment that they are indeed issues. <br />There is no discussion of how those issues could be re- <br />solved or of how, if they were, such resolution would have <br />adverse or favorable environmental impacts. <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />0403 <br />