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B-156966 1 (1973-10-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobablbr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESTRICTED - Not to be released outside the General ,Acctenting Office except on the basis of specific approval C 90 6 --S LER by the Off ice of Congressional Relatlons, a record of hich is ket by the Distribu:ion 4ection, Publictionsr o I COMPTROLLER UENEF AL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 B-156966 RELEASED ~f'~ c/IE OCT 3 1973 c! The Honorable Wayne Owens House of Representatives - Dear Mr. Owens: In accordance with your request of March 15, 1973, and subsequent discussions with our representatives, we have ex- amined the potential financial and operational effects of the U.S. district court'd. ision not to allow, the....rt of Lake Powell to enter the Rainbow Bridge National Monument, We reviewe estimates from the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, of (1) the lo~s pQ. g e es, (2) the 1ousaf-wle through evaporation and bank storage, and (3) the potential loss of water to the Upper Basin States. On December 10, 1970, Friends of the Earth, et al., filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The complaint was subsequently transferred to the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The suit was filed to compel Ellis L. Armstrong, the then Commissioner, Bu- reau of Reclamation, et al., to prevent the waters of Lake Powell from entering the monument's boundaries and to take adequate measures to protect the monument, in accordance with sections 1 and 3 of the Colorado River Storage Project Act (Public Law 84-485). The complaint stated that the defendants had failed to take measures to protect the monument. On February 27, 1973, the Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, directed the Commissioner of Reclamation, et al., to take whatever actions necessary to re- move Lake Powell waters from the monument and to permanently prevent these waters from reentering. As a result of two studies prepared in 1970 and 1971, the Bureau estimated that if it had to operate Lake Powell at or below the 3,600-foot elevation, instead of the 3,700-foot level for which the project was designed, the Colorado River storage project (CRSP) would lose an average of $3 million per year in revenues and the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund would lose about $375 million through the year 2059. Although our review showed that certain items in the two studies were not treated K 1

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