Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project. New Mexico - Arizona. Cost and Economic Update to 2007 Prices of the Planning Report and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (includes Appraisal-Level Alternative Designs and Cost Estimates)

摘要

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) has developed this planning report and draft environmental impact statement (PR/DEIS) pursuant to Public Law 92-199 and the general authority to conduct water resources planning under the Reclamation Act of 1902 and all acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto. This document was undertaken to provide a discussion on (1) various ways to provide a municipal and industrial (M&I) water supply to the Navajo Nation, city of Gallup, and the Jicarilla Apache Nation and (2) the associated potential environmental impacts and costs of such an endeavor, should it be undertaken. Reclamation, however, does not have the current substantive or budgetary authorization that is required to construct, operate, and maintain any proposed facilities discussed in this PR/DEIS. It will take an act of Congress to provide such authority.