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r t 0J2472 Towaoc did not even have a potable water supply until 1990, under the implementation of the 1986 Settlement Agreement. Plans were also moving forward for comprehensive water development throughout the Upper Colorado River Basin. In 1956, Congress enacted the Colorado River Storage Project Act.' This Act authorized the construction of initial CRSP units Curecanti, Flaming Gorge, Navajo and Glen Canyon; participating projects including the Florida Project; and the preparation of planning reports -- including the Animas-La Plata and Dolores Projects, The Florida Project was completed to serye lands on Florida Mesa in 1963, which included some Indian lands but which did not completely meet Indian needs. ~ The CRSP Act also established a mechanism for assisting in the funding of construction of these and other projects, through the creation of the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund (the "Basin Fund"). In short, hydroelectric power revenues generated from the CRSP are credited to the Fund to pay for certain construction, operation and maintenance costs of the initial CRSP units. The balance of any revenues are credited to each of the upper basin states to pay for that portion of the construction costs of participating projects allocated to irrigation, that are beyond the ability of irrigation contractees to repay. Additionally, participating projects can take advantage of favorable rates for CRSP power. In 1968, Congress enacted the Colorado River Basin Project Act.' Among other things, the CRBP Act authorized the construction of the Animas-La Plata and Dolores Projects, concurrent with the completion of the Central Arizona Project. The authorization for the Animas-La Plata project was for a configuration substantially different than the presently proposed configuration.' However, the Project was always contemplated to serve both Indian and non-Indian municipal, industrial and irrigation needs.s 'p,L. 84-485; 70 Stat. 105; 43 U.S.C. 620. 'P.L. 9G-537; 82 Stat. 885; 43 U.S.C. 1505. 'Sect.ion 501 (c) of the 1968 CRBP Act provides that the A-LP Project be constructed "in substantial accordance with the engineering plans set out in the report of the Secretary transmitted to the Congress on May 4, 1966, and printed as House Document 436, Eighty-ninth Congress... II In contrast to the present. configuration, the Project then contemplated the construction of Howardsville Reservoir above Silverton, a diversion from the Animas River near Electra Lake above Durango, Animas Mountain Reservoir, and extensive facilities in the La Plata Basin, including Hay Gulch Reservoir, Three Buttes Reservoir and Ute Meadows Reservoir. 5Changes in the proposed configuration of the Project were made in the 1966 Report included in House Document 436, to increase municipal and industrial supplies, and decrease irrigation supplies. A summary of the proposal water supply and depletions as of the 1968 CRBP Act is as follows; 3