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ADVISORY: Reclamation to hold public meetings on Lake Powell Pipeline Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement

Media Contact: Marlon Duke, 385-228-4845, mduke@usbr.gov
Rick Baxter, 801-379-1078, rbaxter@usbr.gov

For Release: June 30, 2020

Aerial view of Lake PowellPROVO, UTAH – The Bureau of Reclamation, on behalf of the Department of the Interior, will host two public meetings on its environmental review of Utah’s proposed Lake Powell Pipeline project. The pipeline project, proposed by the Utah Board of Water Resources, would establish a second source of water for Washington County, Utah, through an approximately 140-mile-long water delivery pipeline from Lake Powell near Glen Canyon Dam in Page, Arizona, to Sand Hollow Reservoir near St. George, Utah. The State of Utah is developing the project to help meet future water demands and diversify and enhance the reliability of Washington County’s regional water supply portfolio.

The Department encourages robust public review and comment on its draft Environmental Impact Statement and draft Resource Management Plan Amendment for the project. The meetings will be hosted virtually using web-based participation platforms in order to facilitate maximum public participation amid ongoing public health concerns.

What: Public meetings to discuss the Lake Powell Pipeline Project environmental review

Who: Reclamation and cooperating agency officials

When: Wednesday, July 8 at 6:00 p.m. MDT and Thursday, July 9 at 6:00 p.m. MDT

Where: Virtual via WebEx.

Web address for July 8 - http://ow.ly/He8f50Am5HX

Web address for July 9 - http://ow.ly/2glG50Am5HW

Note: Please log into meeting at least 10 minutes prior to 6:00 p.m. All participants will remain on mute throughout the meeting. Questions and comments may be submitted during the meeting using WebEx chat function. Content for both meetings will be identical. To allow participation by everyone interested, please only attend one meeting.

Formal comments must be received by 11:59 p.m. MDT on Sept. 8, 2020, through one of the methods below. Comments posted in the WebEx chat function during public meetings do not constitute formal comments for inclusion in the draft EIS.

Note that all information included in submitted comments, including the submitter’s name and contact information, may be published with the final EIS. Please only include contact information with your comment that you are okay making public.

Standard Mail: Lake Powell Pipeline Project Bureau of Reclamation, Provo Area Office 302 East Lakeview Parkway Provo, Utah 84606

Online: https://www.usbr.gov/uc/DocLibrary/EnvironmentalImpactStatements/LakePowellPipeline/index.html

Email: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2020-12382

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Relevant Link:

Webex link for July 8 meeting

Webex link for July 9 meeting