[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 183 (Thursday, September 22, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-23470]
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[Federal Register: September 22, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the
Proposed Greybull Irrigation Dam, Cheyenne, WY
AGENCIES: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, DOD; U.S.
Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming, DOI.
SPONSORS: Greybull Valley Irrigation District, Emblem, Wyoming; Wyoming
Water Development Commission, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
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SUMMARY: The proposed action is to construct a 150-foot high zoned
earth embankment dam at the lower end of Roach Gulch, a dry tributary
to the Greybull River. The dam would be 1700 feet long with a 150-foot
wide earth channel spillway on the left abutment, and would be located
primarily in the SW\1/4\SW\1/4\ of Section 23, T 51 N, R 98 W of Big
Horn county. Water from the Greybull River would be diverted by means
of a gated structure and delivered to the reservoir area via a 6-mile
supply canal, some of which is existing. Water would be released from
the dam back into the Greybull River by means of an 1100-foot earth
channel, providing late-season irrigation water for 25,000 acres in the
lower Greybull Valley. The project may provide secondary fishery
benefits by providing winter minimum flows from the proposed dam and
Upper and Lower Sunshine Reservoirs. The Greybull River Valley is
located in southern Park and Big Horn counties in northwest Wyoming,
approximately 25 miles southeast of Cody, Wyoming.
Alternatives being evaluated by the applicant include similar
diversions into Blackstone Gulch or Rawhide Creek, as well as the
enlargement of Upper Sunshine Reservoir, an existing storage reservoir.
Conservation of existing water supplies, utilization of groundwater, as
well as the ``no action'' alternative will be considered.
DATES: Public Scoping Meeting, October 26, 1994, 7:00 p.m. Emblem Gym,
3400 Road 10, Emblem, Wyoming.
ADDRESSES: Omaha District, Army Corps of Engineers, ATTN: CEMRO-PD-M,
215 N. 17th St., Omaha, Nebraska 68102-4978.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Robert S. Nebel, Chief,
Environmental Analysis, Planning Division, (402) 221-4598.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Future Schedule
Following review of comments received during scoping, data
collection and analysis will begin for the Draft Environmental Impact
Statement (DEIS). The Corps anticipates that the DEIS will be released
for public review in June 1995. A Final Environmental Impact Statement
is anticipated to be completed in early 1996.
Kenneth L. Denton,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 94-23470 Filed 9-21-94; 8:45 am]
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