Bureau of Reclamation leads Lake Powell Pipeline NEPA process
By Marcie Larson
The U.S. Department of the Interior has notified the Utah Board of Water Resources that it has assigned the Bureau of Reclamation to lead the National Environmental Policy Act compliance for the Lake Powell Pipeline project.
In September 2019, the Utah Board of Water Resources announced that it had eliminated two reservoirs proposed to generate hydropower at times of peak demand. As a result, the licensing requirements of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission no longer applied to the project, and the board withdrew the FERC license application. The board subsequently requested that the Department of the Interior appoint Reclamation as the lead federal agency for purposes of completing the NEPA review.
The LPP is an approximately 140-mile pipeline that will use a small portion of the state’s available Colorado River water right. Visit lpputah.org for more information.
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