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<br />002Q~7 <br /> <br />CACHE LA POUDRE WILD AND SCENIC RIVER STUDY <br /> <br />ADDENDUM TO FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT <br />STATEMENT AND STUDY REPORT <br /> <br />I. INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />.~~, <br /> <br />A. Purpose of Addendum <br /> <br />This'Addendum to the Final Study Report has been prepared to analyze two <br />alternatives not examined in previous documents and identify the Federal <br />and the State of Colorado recommendations for consideration by the <br />President and the Congress (See Chapter II). <br /> <br />In early 1981, a Final Environmental Impact Statement and Study Report <br />(FEIS/SR) on the Cache La Poudre River was completed by the Forest Service, <br />USDA, and the State of Colorado. The Final Report recommended designation <br />of 39 miles of the Poudre's upper reaches, but suggested that a decision on <br />the lower reaches be deferred until better information became available <br />with which to assess the trade-offs between preservation of the River and <br />water resource development. <br /> <br />Since completion of the Final Report, yet before its submission to the <br />Congress, a study of the upper Poudre basin was finalized by the Tudor <br />Engineering Corporation under a contract to the State of Colorado. The <br />conclusions of that study,. while not considerate of development options <br />in the entire Cache la Poudre River basin, are sufficient to provide cur- <br />rent data with which to resolve some of the uncertainty ~hat was present <br />in the Final Report (See Section C of this Chapter). The study results <br />have satisfied the State and Department of Agriculture (USDA), that know- <br />ledgeable recommendations may now be made on the main stem reaches of the <br />Poudre River within the study area. <br /> <br />B. Relation of Addendum to FEIS and Study Report <br /> <br />The Final Study Report contains the main bOdy of information necessary to <br />analyze and document the conduct of this study. The basic findings of the <br />River's eligibility for designation are unchanged. This Addendum describes <br />and identifies two additional alternatives; they are developed, analyzed, <br />and portrayed in a format similar to the FEIS/SR. Only the data which are <br />new to the study, or analyses not made previously, are considered here. <br />Dollar amounts have been indexed to 1982 values using accepted Federal <br />standards. <br /> <br />During the preparation of this Addendum, some discrepancies in the number <br />of acres contained in the various segments, as shown in the FEIS/SR, were <br />found. Some of the discrepancies were due to land ownership changes which <br />have occured since the FEIS/SR was completed. Others were errors discov- <br />ered during this Addendum's preparation. The current acreage figures are <br />presented in Table A-6 of this Addendum. The discrepancies were not of a <br />magnitude sufficient to warrant revision of conclusions reached or recom- <br />mendations presented in the FEIS/SR. <br />