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 environmental statutes on both Federal and in some cases state

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2 laws, to control Colorado's land and water resources without

3 making any individual or corporate investment in dollars or time

4 at all. We notice with great interest as the primary Western

5 Colorado water bOdy, that these people are usually silent, omi-

6 nously so, in the case of proposed trans-mountain diversions,

7 especially if those trans-mountain diversions are going to the

8 Denver metropolitan area. We also request that an economic

9 analysis be made including the development of a benefit-cost

10 ratio to determine the cost and economic values of the proposed

11 mitigation measures. Certainly, the conversion of public and

12 private land from irrigated and agriculture livestock operations

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13 to wildlife for recreation, hunting. is not without cost, and

14 these costs must be known. For example. on the Fruitland Mesa

15 project in Delta County, Colorado, the mitigation measures deman-

16 ded by narrow special interest groups, and at this point in time

17 might be concurred in by the Bureau of Reclamation, will result

18 in a Federal subsidy of $1,061.00 per deer killed using Federal

19 funds and irrigators

Upper Colorado River storage project

20 funds to subsidize the killing of deer. vfuether or not the land

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is included as a mitigation measure, the cost should be known.

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The irrigator must show his costs.

We believe that the rnitigatio

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must also show costs concerning the future.

It is unfortunate

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that it appears that many wildlife agencies including those in

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the state of Colorado, would rather criticize in their own specia,