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The Narrows Project, Utah, final environmental impact statement updates information and analyses contained in the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Narrows Project (DES-09- 55) published in March 2010 and the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Narrows Project (DES-98-10) published in March 1998. The FEIS discloses the direct, indirect, and cumulative effects of the non-Federal Narrows Project as proposed by Sanpete Water Conservancy District. This is an executive summary of the FEIS.

The SWCD has applied to the Bureau of Reclamation for a Small Reclamation Projects Act loan to help finance construction of a private reservoir and related facilities. SWCD also has requested authorization to use federally administered withdrawn lands as the site for dam construction. Most of the reservoir basin would be located on adjacent, privately owned land. The proposed federal action is that Reclamation will: 1) approve or deny the SRPA loan application and 2) determine whether to allow the SWCD to use 304.5 acres of Reclamation withdrawn land. If SWCD obtains its requisite financing, either through the SRPA loan or from other private funding source(s), and if Reclamation approves the land use a supplemental water supply would be developed for presently irrigated lands and municipal and industrial water users in northern Sanpete County.

To develop this supplemental water supply a dam and reservoir would be constructed on Gooseberry Creek, and water would be diverted through an existing tunnel and a proposed pipeline to Cottonwood Creek; the existing tunnel would be rehabilitated. Pipelines would be constructed to deliver the water to existing water distribution systems. Recreation facilities would be developed, and a minimum pool for fish habitat would be provided. The resulting water storage and delivery system would be a non-Federal project owned and operated by SWCD. Mitigation measures would be implemented to offset adverse impacts. Water conservation measures would be implemented independent of the Proposed Action. To be eligible to receive water from the Narrows Project, water users would be required to use, or agree to implement, conservation measures

• News Release - 01/04/12
• Record of Decision Transmittal Letter - 01/02/13
• News Release - 11/05/12
• Federal Register Notice - 11/05/12