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Name: Withheld by Request
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Date: 3/23/2009

I am in agreance with many about forbidding the mineral withdrawal from the lakebed. Thank you for addressing. I also like the plans to keep the public involved and expanding facilities for disposal of waste appropriately.

4.5.1 discusses coordination and control for invasive pests/weeds. We need coordination for REMOVAL of these invasive items, not just preventative control. Beaches are being overrun and I\'m told strict codes prevent owners from eliminating these items (i.e. burning/tilling/weed killer). There are now mature trees on the beach in many areas.

I'm not sure I quite understand the emphasis on soil erosion. I have been going to Bear Lake every summer for the past 32 years and never observed erosion problems. Shouldn't we focus on water erosion (always observable)? I'm of the belief the lake will never fill due to the pumping and reduced flow into the lake in the spring due to the control gates.

I might be reading 4.6.3 wrong, but if this is for lake level at capacity, a big goal in my mind would be to put a required minimum capacity that nees to be met for pumping to occur. We pump way too much. The lake will never recover.

Is there nothing to prevent something like the hook canyon project (pumping water up to a reservoir high up and flow back to the lake for power generation, stirring sediment and wreaking havoc on species, not to mention water quality)? If this is covered under the lease section, it was very vague. We can't afford to have a back door for invasive/catostrophic projects like this one.

Please consider this as a goal for 4.3.1. For years that old gate system on the north end has allowed silt to spill through into the lake (due to gate lifting up to allow bottom silt to pass) taking away the blue hue of the lake which has made it famous and turning it green (lower water quality). That thing should have a plan to be revamped to a top spill system (gate that lowers to allow water to overspill), which would prevent silt from entering the lake.

Thanks, *******