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<br />,":-~""',""''''-'''''-,:-- ." <br /> <br />- '-r~"-. <br /> <br />12. Several people question the validity of including other <br />agency management plans in the alternatives. The feeling <br />was that the alternative should focus on the operation of <br />the dam. <br /> <br />13. Needs a clear statement of costs and benefits. <br /> <br />14. All alternatives should identify what is not being changed. <br /> <br />written Comments <br /> <br />1. The Secretary of the Interior's responsibilities under <br />section 602(a) needs to be identified. <br /> <br />2. The "law of the River" needs to be added to the alternative. <br /> <br />3. The outside parameters of operation need to be identified <br />including what is "usual," perhaps identify usual as 90t of <br />the time. <br /> <br />4. The range of operations of other agencies with management <br />responsibilities needs to be added ie. Arizona Game and <br />Fish- stocking program and fishing regulations, National <br />Park Service - Colorado Rive Management Plan, Western Area <br />Power Administration - Power marketing, Fish and Wildlife <br />Service - Biological Opinion and conservation Measures, <br />Bureau of Indian Affairs - ??? <br /> <br />5. The no action alternative should include information of <br />beach degradation that have occurred under this form of <br />management. It should be made clear that this alternative <br />would continue the policies that have been a detriment to <br />fish and wildlife resources and have also used flows that <br />endanger lives in recreational activities. <br /> <br />6. The No Action Alternative need not detail the existing <br />agency operating procedures (such as fishery management) in <br />the description of alternative. Simply note that such <br />operations will not be affected. The specifics of those <br />conditions should be detailed in the baseline datal existing <br />conditions section. <br /> <br />7. The No Action Alternative should refer to the actual <br />existing baseline conditions as well as they can be <br />determined. That is, if current guidelines and policies are <br />being violated, then they are part of the baseline. This is <br />analogous to identifying existing hazardous waste violations <br />in other EIS's. <br /> <br />8. This alternative does not state that inadequate mitigation <br />is causing continued degradation of fish and wildlife <br />resources of public value. <br /> <br />8 <br />