WSP02419

• File Number: 8220.127.I
• Description: Savery-Pot Hook Project
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Water Division: 6
• Date: 10/30/1976
• Title: Public Hearing on the Draft Environmental Statement Savery-Pot Hook Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

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1 is concerned, and we request an opportunity to discuss this

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2 apparently bias with the Bureau of Reclamation to see if it can

3 be corrected. or at least discussed. We find again a discussion

4 in Chapter C on page C-23, and more discussion of the Colorado

5 River squawfish and other fishes that are claimed to be endangere

6 We find that the Bureau of Reclamation has used throughout the

7 report a -- throughout the draft statement a report which is

8 designated by footnote 41 and several places: we request a copy

9 of that report. We also request a copy of the Bureau's analysis

10 by which they made the decision that the project will not endange~

11 the endangered species. Concerning mule deer, there's a detailed
12 discussion on pages C-30 and C-31 concerning 1,700 head in
.-. 13 wyoming, 600 in Colorado. Again citing the report at footnote 41 ,'/,1
14 it's implied that irrigated lands. or that deer do not graze on

15 irrigated fields, and this is of course widely known to not be

16 true. There's a discussion of the Pot Hook Reservoir in 600

17 acres of critical winter range. We assume that this recommendatipn

18 for 16,000 acres of mitigation came from the Colorado Division

19 of Wildlife. Again, we request copies of the data upon which

20 the recommendation was made. We observed that the Colorado Divi-

21 sion of l~ildlife. however, is the largest single owner of stored

22 water in the Yampa River Basin, a basin in which the Savery-Pot

23 Hook project is to be constructed. To our knowledge there has

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never been any claim that a Colorado Division of Wildlife reser-

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voir would inundate or change habitat that is claimed to be