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<br />CHAPTER V <br /> <br />WATER AND POWER REPORTS <br /> <br />at an environmental scoping meeting to be held early in the planning process <br />and at a public hearing on the environmental statement to be held after public <br />distribution of the reports, as discussed in the following section. <br /> <br />.{f.~', <br />\{~;; <br /> <br />Report Review Process <br /> <br />After the drafts of the reports are submitted, they will be reviewed <br />under the process prescribed by Federal regulations and guidelines. The pro- <br />cess includes specific steps expected to take about l-l/2 to 2 years. Minimum <br />time periods are prescribed for several of the steps. Although the reports <br />will be bound in one volume, they will be regulated by two different reviewing <br />processes: one for the report and another for the environmental statement. <br />Some of the steps coincide or overlap. As the reviewing process progresses, <br />the titles of the reports will change. The title changes and prescribed <br />review times are indicated in the following summary of the review process. <br /> <br />The first drafts of the reports, referred to as Field Drafts of the <br />Planning Report and Draft Environmental Statement, will be prepared by the <br />Grand Junction Projects Office of the Water and Power Resources Service in <br />Grand Junction, and submitted to the Upper Colorado Regional Office in Salt <br />Lake City, for review. The drafts will be revised as necessary through a <br />cooperative effort by these two offices. <br /> <br />The reports will then be designated the Regional Director's Proposed <br />Report and Advance Draft Environmental Statement and forwarded to the Commis- <br />sioner's Office of the Water and Power Resources Service in Washington, D.C., <br />and the Engineering and Research Center in Denver, Colorado, for review. At <br />this step, they will be reviewed simultaneously by the planning team and other <br />interested parties as determined by the Regional Director. This review has no <br />predetermined prescribed time period; however, in circulating the report for <br />in-house review, a date for receiving comments is established. <br /> <br />After incorporation by the regional office of any resulting comments, the <br />reports as revised will become the Regional Director's Report and Draft <br />Environmental Statement. Upon return of the report to the Washington Office <br />for further processing, it will be released to the Congressional delegations <br />of the seven Colorado River Basin States as a preliminary document for the <br />members' information. <br /> <br />The reports will become part of the draft Commissioner's Proposed Report <br />and Draft Environmental Statement. These two reports (in one volume) will <br />then undergo a 30-day review by agencies and offices of the Department of the <br />Interior. <br /> <br />Upon completion of the Departmental review and the incorporation of any <br />required comments, the reports will be termed the Commissioner's Proposed <br />Report and Draft Environmental Statement. That report, upon being approved <br />and adopted by the Secretary, becomes the Secretary's Proposed Report and <br />CiJI1CO <br /> <br />..,~~ <br /> <br />26 <br />