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Lake Powell Pipeline Project Draft Environmental Impact Study

June 11, 2020
by John Weisheit

NOTE: The Bureau of Reclamation has formally terminated the process to develop an Enivornmental Impact Statement for the construction of the Lake Powell Pipeline Project.

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 The Draft EIS/Draft RMPA analyzes the potential direct, indirect, and cumulative physical, biological, and socioeconomic environmental effects that may result from construction and operation of the two action alternatives: The Highway Alternative and the Southern Alternative, including three RMPA sub-alternatives for the Southern Alternative.

Both alternatives consist of a water delivery pipeline that begins at Lake Powell near Glen Canyon Dam in Page, Arizona, and ends at Sand Hollow Reservoir near St. George, Utah. The pipeline would deliver up to 86,249 acre-feet of water from Lake Powell to Washington County. Both alternatives also include a water exchange contract between Reclamation and UBWR.

The BLM Arizona Strip Field Office is considering amending a portion of the Arizona Strip Field Office (ASFO) Resource Management Plan (RMP) related to the Kanab Creek Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC). Pursuant to 43 CFR 1610.7–2(b), the BLM is required to publish a notice in the Federal Register of proposed ACECs, including changes to existing ACECs, and specify the resource use limitations.

DUE DATE (now closed): The 90-day public comment period ended on September 8, 2020

Comments on the draft EIS/draft RMPA and requests to be added to the mailing/notification list were submitted by mail, e-mail or fax to:    

     Lake Powell Pipeline Project
     Bureau of Reclamation
     Provo Area Office
     302 East Lakeview Parkway
     Provo, Utah 84606
     lpp@usbr.gov
     801-379-1159

PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR DEIS & RECEIVED DURING 90-DAY COMMENT PERIOD ENDING 9/8/20

ALL COMMENTS & COMPILED BY RECLAMATION (Website)

Other Public Information about LPP DEIS

News about public participation of LPP DEIS

  • Click here to read this story by Hillary Davis from Las Vegas Sun
  • Click here to read this OpEd by Tick Segerblom called "Utah Pipeline Plan An Affront to Nevada"
  • Click here to read this OpEd by Kyle Roerink called "St. George's Water Grab Worth Fighting"

News announcing the publication of LPP DEIS

PUBLIC SCOPING COMMENTS

DEIS DOCUMENT ARCHIVE

From Environmental Protections Agency

From Bureau of Reclamation

PUBLIC COMMENTS

Other Public Information about LPP DEIS

News about LPP DEIS

  • Click here to read this story by Hillary Davis from Las Vegas Sun
  • Click here to read this OpEd by Tick Segerblom called "Utah Pipeline Plan An Affront to Nevada"
  • Click here to read this OpEd by Kyle Roerink called "St. George's Water Grab Worth Fighting"

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