•September 5, 1997 US
BOR/Department of the Interior "Issue Paper" written by US
BOR/Department of the Interior Legal Team to outline "Strawberry Valley
Project Conversion from Irrigation to Municipal and Industrial Water"
•SUVMUA Sign Contract
with CUWCD (After working with SWUA to sign a contract)
•BOR Refusal to work on
Diamond Fork Power following passage of the Bonneville Unit Clean Hydropower
Facilitation Act by Congress and signed into Law by the President on July 18,
2013
•2013 CUWCD Requests
the CUPCA Office to take responsibility of SVP and amend repayment contracts in
November 7, 2013 document titled, "Central Utah Water Project Redefining
Relationships which was presented to Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary
Anne Castle dated November 7, 2013
•2013 Cities and SHLCC
Request an audit of SWUA in October 23, 2013 letter to the US Department of the
Interior. Purpose of the Audit is to
establish a process by which the Department of the Interior would determine who
owns private assets i.e. land, water, money currently owned and controlled by
the SWUA
•BOR creates outline
for Steps to assign SWUA contracts to CUWCD and Others
•2015-01-28 Meeting
between BOR and CUWCD on Audit. It is
suggested by the parties that the BOR needs to be more aggressive toward
SWUA. (Also suggests SWUA's Banked water
is illegal.)
• 2015 BOR drafts
Letter to Assign OM&R of 46KV line to SUVPS
•2015 BOR Memo to
Transfer OM&R from SWUA & SHLCC to CUWCD
•2016 BOR suggests
legislation that will allow disposal of Project lands to be sold or given to
other projects. (No permission would be
needed from repayment entity in charge of the project)
•Mayors Push to have
the audit and then do ADR. (My
conversation with Owen Walker states that the BOR will enforce anything that is
their interpretation of the Contracts)