97-29441. Notice of Intent To Negotiate a Contract Among Ouray Park Irrigation Company, the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, and the Department of the Interior for Temporary Storage of Project Water in the Proposed Lower Uintah Reservoir as ...

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 216 (Friday, November 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 60254]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-29441]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR


Notice of Intent To Negotiate a Contract Among Ouray Park 
Irrigation Company, the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, and 
the Department of the Interior for Temporary Storage of Project Water 
in the Proposed Lower Uintah Reservoir as Part of the Uintah Unit 
Replacement Project of the Central Utah Project Completion Act

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary--Water and Science, 
Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of intent to negotiate a contract among Ouray Park 
Irrigation Company (Ouray Park), the Central Utah Water Conservancy 
District (District), and Department of the Interior for temporary 
storage of non-project water in the proposed Lower Uintah Reservoir as 
part of the Uintah Unit Replacement Project (Uintah Unit) under the 
Central Utah Project Completion Act.

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SUMMARY: Pub. L. 102-575, Central Utah Project Completion Act, Section 
201(c), allows for the construction of the Uintah Unit Project as part 
of the Central Utah Project. As part of this project, the United States 
plans to temporarily store a portion of the Ouray Park storage right 
during the non-irrigation season and release it at a flow rate in the 
Uinta River that will enhance stream fishery. The water will be 
recaptured in the existing Ouray Park storage facilities through a new 
diversion and pipeline system to be located lower on the Uinta River 
and built by the District as part of the Uintah Unit.
    The purpose of the negotiation sessions will be to determine the 
terms of the temporary storage and the release pattern that will 
provide Ouray Park with the same amount of water they have received 
historically and at the time they need it for irrigation use. It will 
also address the responsibility for operation and maintenance for the 
Lower Uintah Reservoir, the new diversion, and pipeline.

DATES: Dates for public negotiation sessions will be announced in local 
newspapers.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Additional information on matters 
related to this Federal Register notice can be obtained at the address 
and telephone number set forth below: Mr. Michael Hansen, Program 
Coordinator, CUP Completion Act Office, Department of the Interior, 302 
East 1860 South, Provo UT 84606-6154, Telephone: [phone], E-Mail 
address: [e-mail].

    Dated: October 31, 1997.
Ronald Johnston,
CUP Program Director, Department of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-29441 Filed 11-6-97; 8:45 am]
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