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31)3'746 CRWUA , largest. Upon completion, the project will irrigate 110,630 acres of alfalfa, corn, wheat, barley, pota- toes, onions, pinto beans and pasture, bencfiting some 33,000 members of the Navajo nation. Additional participating projects of CRSP include thc San Juan-Chama Projcct, the Hammond Project and the Animas-La Plata Project. The San Juan-Chama Project supplements the flow in the Rio Grande Basin, by diverting an aver- age of 110,000 acre-feet of water annually from the upper tributaries of the San Juan River. Through a series of tunnels under the Continental Divide, water is provided to supplement irrigation in the Rio Grande Basin, and provid- ed for municipal and indus- trial uses in Santa Fe, Albuquerque and the sur- rounding cities in New Mexico. n,e Hammond Project diverts water directly from the San Juan River into canals that irrigate some 3,900 acres of alfalfa, wheat, barley and pasture land. The Animas-La Plata Project in southwestern Colorado, authorized but awaiting construction, will develop the unused flows of the Animas and La Plata rivers to provide 49,200 acre-feet of project water for municipal and industrial use, and irriga- tion for northwestern New Mexico, including the Navajo nation, as well as 123,700 acre-feet of project water annually for munici- pal and industrial use, anti irrigation for southwestern Colorado, including the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribes. San Juan County is an importaIit economical con- tributor to the state of New Mexico. The development of the abundant natural resources such as oil and natural gas, coal mining, electric power generation and uranium production cannot be ignored in any discussion of themany fac- tors which combine to give New Mexico the recogni- tion it enjoys in today's environment of reevaluat- ing priorities. y~.~t\Q<l<;Q