[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 77 (Wednesday, April 22, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19932-19933]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-10650]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of the Assistant Secretary--Water and Science


Notice of Intent To Negotiate an Operating Agreement Among the 
Central Utah Water Conservancy District, Ute Tribe--Uintah and Ouray 
Reservation, United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Department 
of the Interior To Provide for the Construction, Rehabilitation, 
Operation, Maintenance, and Replacement of the Uintah Unit Replacement 
Project of the Central Utah Project

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

ACTION: Notice of intent to negotiate an agreement among the Central 
Utah Water Conservancy District, Ute Tribe--Uintah and Ouray 
Reservation, United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Department of 
the Interior to provide for the construction, rehabilitation, 
operation, maintenance, and replacement of the Uintah Unit Replacement 
Project of the Central Utah Project as provided in Section 201(c) of 
Pub. L. 102-575.

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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 Replacement 
Project as part of the Central Utah Project. An operating agreement 
will provide the terms associated with the construction, 
rehabilitation, operation, maintenance, and replacement of each of the 
features and activities associated with the Project. It will also 
establish the details associated with project reservoir water storage, 
accounting, and delivery. The agreement will establish the terms for 
the project operation to achieve the benefits of water development for 
Indians and non-Indians, protection of existing water rights, and 
establish a project operation to emphasize benefit to steam flows for 
fishery and other environmental enhancements
    The purpose of the negotiation sessions will be to determine the 
terms of the storage, accounting, and delivery of project water for the 
Uintah Unit and detail the protection of existing water rights on the 
associated river systems. The sessions will also determine 
responsibilities for construction, rehabilitation, operation, 
maintenance, and replacement of project facilities.

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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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 
84606-7317, Telephone: (801) 379-1194, E-Mail address: 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f09d98919e83959eb08593de85839282de979f86"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a8c5c0c9c6dbcdc6e8ddcb86dddbcada86cfc7de">[email protected]</span></a>.

    Dated: April 16, 1998.
Ralph G. Swanson,
Acting CUP Program Director, Department of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-10650 Filed 4-21-98; 8:45 am]
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