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Commission ratifies letter to NRCS to preserve Joe’s Valley PL-566 flood control classification
Summary
Commissioners ratified a letter to the Natural Resources Conservation Service arguing that the PL-566 Cottonwood Creek–Joe’s Valley project is flood control, preserving eligibility for a higher grant share and shielding the county from larger cost shares.
The Emery County Commission ratified a previously sent letter asking the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service to classify the Cottonwood Creek (Joe’s Valley) project as flood control under PL-566 rules, a designation county officials said would protect the county from having to absorb a larger share of construction costs.
Commissioners said the project was originally pursued in 2018 as a flood-control plan with two basins above Orangeville and two structures above Joe’s Valley. The NRCS later proposed changing the funding…
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