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<br />'11" <br /> <br />JAN-27-se 18:25 FROM:M.B.S.S. <br /> <br />10:970 2"17 8827 <br /> <br />PAGE <br /> <br />5/10 <br /> <br />October 13, 1992: <br /> <br />RecUurzmit>nfiles the Draft Supplement (DES 92-41) ,,'irh the <br />Environmental Protection Agency arui releases the Draft for <br />public review and comment. Comments are due December 15, <br />1992, (about 500 comments were received.) <br /> <br />November 30, 1992: <br /> <br />Public hearing held in Durango, Colorado. Other hearings are <br />held in Farmington, New Muico on December 1, 1992.. and <br />Denver, Colorado on December 2, 1992. About 125 statements <br />were received. <br /> <br />Jul}. 20, 1993: <br /> <br />Comrr.=ioner of Reclamation signs a memorandum <br />recommending that a Final Supplement to the 1980 FES be <br />prepared which addresses issues raised during the comment <br />peribd: is based on updating impacts of the project described in <br />the 1979 DPR (including refuzements); and includes Clean Water <br />Act compliance requirements. <br /> <br />September 1993: <br /> <br />Reclamation sets a schedule dale of June 1995 for filing the Final <br />Supplement with EPA arui August 1995 for a Record of Decision. <br /> <br />November- December 1993: Using Indian Self Determination Act contraJ:ting procedures, <br />cooperative agreements are put in plat:e with lwth the Southern <br />Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe to conduct <br />certain studies and analyses, thereby assisting in completion of <br />the Fi.lal Supplement. <br /> <br />February 16,1994: <br /> <br />Consent tkcree is filed regarding the Four Comers Action <br />CoalitWn, et. al. /awsuir. Reclamation agreed to not perform <br />cultural resources related ground disturbing cu:tivities pribr to <br />completion of the F"ural Supplement. As such, the previous <br />preliminary injunction is vacated. <br /> <br />April 19, 1994: <br /> <br />In anticipation of U.S. F& WL Service designation of critical <br />habitat iJ: the Colorado River Basin for four endangered fIShes, <br />Reclamation requests inilia1ion of ESA consultation regarding the <br />ALP project and c~al habiiat. The Service tksignated criiical <br />habitot on April 20, 1994. <br /> <br />July 1994: <br /> <br />U.s. Department of Interior Inspector General releases audit <br />report No. 94-1-884, "Development St4tus of the Dolores and the <br />Animas-La Plata Projects, Bureau of Reclamation." Regarding <br />ALP, the OIG recommends that economic andfuumcial <br />feasibility of the project be reevaluated and that Ccngress be <br />informed of the reeva1w1lion results. Reclamation had previously <br />begun such an economic analysis. <br /> <br />February 1995: <br /> <br />Project sponsors agree on the concept of divlding Phase I of tlte <br />project into two Stages, A and B. In accordance with the project <br />depletion limitation of 57,100 acre-feet specified in the reasofUlble <br />and prudent alternative (RPA) of the 1991 FWS Biological <br /> <br />4 <br />