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This document is an Environmental Assessment (EA) for Restoration of the Provo River through the Victory Ranch (Proposed Action). The owners of the Victory Ranch are proposing rehabilitation of the Provo River and associated habitat from the bridge on SR 32 east of the Jordanelle Reservoir, upstream to 1000 East in Francis, Utah, a distance of 5 miles. In the 1940s, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) obtained easements along the Provo River to flood certain land and to construct dikes to contain high flows that come from diverting the Weber and Duchesne Rivers. The Proposed Action cannot therefore be implemented without Reclamation authorization. Before such authorization can occur, Reclamation must prepare an EA pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Council on Environmental Quality’s and Department of Interior’s regulations implementing NEPA to determine whether the Proposed Action would have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment.

Victory Ranch owns or controls most of the land along the 5 miles of river above Jordanelle with the exception of a parcel at the south end of the project owned by the LDS Church and two small areas locally known as Lemon’s Grove and Trout River Ranch.