NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Friday, December 9, 1994

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

No incident reports.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Colorado River Parks (Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado) - River Management

Staff from the Water Resources Division in Fort Collins, Colorado, attended a
public meeting held by Western Area Power Administration in November to
identify economically and technically feasible methods of replacing lost Glen
Canyon Dam power due to operational changes at the dam.  The options developed
through this process will be reported to Congress as required by the Grand
Canyon Protection Act of 1992.  The meeting was presented in context of the
interim operating criteria and the Glen Canyon Dam environmental impact
statement (EIS).  The replacement power process will identify economically and
technically feasible replacement power resources, address transmission system
enhancements, and culminate in a report to Congress.  The report will not be
another EIS or subject to NEPA, but will be closely related to three on-going
EISs.  Potential changes in reservoir levels or regulation of rivers stemming
from this process could occur at Dinosaur, Curecanti, Black Canyon of the
Gunnison, Canyonlands, Glen Canyon, Grand Canyon and Lake Mead if power-peaking
operations are altered at other Colorado River systems dams. [WRD/WASO]

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No notes.

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation and
support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.

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