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<br />OH03!1 <br /> <br />fired powerplant. No data on this project save the initial filing was <br />made available to the team. Designation of the river will certainly <br />preclude this reservoir, though the thermal plant diversion could be <br />made upstream from the study area. However the Endangered <br />Species Act will almost certainly preclude it anyway. <br /> <br />About 3000 pounds of recoverable uranium along the lower Colorado <br />and 15,000 'pounds along the lower Dolores are estimated by the <br />Department of Energy. Sentiment in Moab, Utah, and in the state <br />government was that this should not be "locked up" by river <br />designation. While a Scenic designation would not have locked this <br />ore up, it would perhaps raise costs of extraction. Local sentiment <br />and the fact that the scenic values of the Dolores are concentrated <br />above this reach has influenced the study team to recommend tenta- <br />tively that the lower 11 miles of the Dolores not be designated. It <br />is expected that this recommendation, if it is adopted by the Secre- <br />tary of the Interior, will anger conservationists. <br /> <br />There is considerable feeling in Utah, among citizens and state <br />government, that designation of a river under the Wild and Scenic <br />Rivers Act will force an automatic Class I or II air deisgnation for <br />the area, thus debilitating potential for future industry. This is <br />not true for rivers designated after passage of the Clean Air Act <br />(1977), as these two would be. A class III designation could be <br />made. <br /> <br />The State of Utah will not take a position or JOin in any wild and <br />scenic river recommendations until it has inventoried all its rivers; <br />planned completion is 1980. <br /> <br />.n <br /> <br />10 <br />