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f# :> .,1 :!: " -f":"\ ';':;;;' -,.1 ~:;;;/ " ;"1 " . 19 f .;. V. MarketinR Available Water from Navajo Reservoir Long-term water service contracts for municipal and industrial uses from Navajo Reservoir involve a projection into the future of estimated water useS and water '.; supplies. The Bureau projection of water supply and depletions from the Navajo . Reservoir through the year 2039 is formulated with the consultation of the State \.<.' ~. of New Mexico. The remaining block of Navajo Reservoir water supply as iden- , .;, (, L~", tified in this determination will be marketed by the United States and will be 1<~: -<: if [~ :;;> i;,.:, allocated in consultation with the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission. Individual water service contracts would also need the approval of Congress. / The following is a list of municipal and industrial water service requests or TABLE 3 ~ossible allocations for Navajo Reservoir water when made available: REQUESTS/POSSIBLE ALLOCATIONS FOR NAVAJO RESERVOIR M&I WATER SERVICE Prospective Number of Request Contractor Acre-Feet Annually Date :',;:p. 1M Consolidation Coal Co. 15,000 -October 1981 ~ Hydrocom Resources Inc. 60,000 January 1983 >!;< Ark Land Co. 30,000 January 1982 W- City of Farmington, N.M. 12 , 000 January 1981 ~i ~ City of B 100m fie ld , N.M. 1,000 March 1983 ?'Ii Jicarilla Apache ;~j Reservation 26,000 March 1976 ~~'~ '-J, Gallup-Navajo Indian .,'. "',', Municipal ,.,', Water Supply Project 24,000 .!l 1976 1./ 1/ Total Gallup-Navajo Project depletion is 32,000 acre-feet (A.F.). Depletion by States would be as follows: New Mexico, 24,000 A.F.; Arizona 6,990 A.F.; Utah, 1,180 A.F. The New Mexico depletion includes 7,500 A.F. for the city of Gallup which was granted a conditional allocation by the State of New Mexico in 1968.