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This draft Environmental Assessment analyzes two federal actions related to the Provo Reservoir Canal (PRC), a feature of the Provo River Project located in Utah County, UT. The first federal action is whether the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) should authorize an increase in capacity of the PRC, from 550 cfs to 630 cfs, at approximately 800 North in Orem, Utah, and from 550 cfs to 585 cfs at the northern terminus of the canal, in order to provide reliable future delivery of water from the Central Utah Project, Utah Lake Drainage Basin Water Delivery System (ULS) to Salt Lake County via the PRC. With such a capacity increase, the enclosed canal would have a capacity of 550 cfs at the Murdock Diversion, increasing to 630 cfs at approximately 800 North to accommodate the ULS pipeline, and from that point, tapering down to 585 cfs at the northern terminus.

The second federal action is whether the Department of the Interior, Central Utah Project Completion Act Office (Interior), should provide funding pursuant to Section 207 of the Central Utah Project Completion Act to enclose the PRC.