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<br />I'" <br />1-1 <br /> <br /><111 <br /> <br />Animas-LaPlata. . . . <br />a modified project <br /> <br />~ Cuts original project cost by more than $400 million. <br /> <br />~ Facilities to deliver new irrigation water are shelved, eliminating any water quality concerns. <br /> <br />~ Constitutes full settlement of Colorado Ute Indian water rights claims. <br /> <br />~ Two-thirds of the project's depletions allocated to the Tribes, with the balance for regional M & I <br />and a small amount of supplemental irrigation depletion. <br /> <br />~ Based upon the Final Biological Opinion of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which determined <br />that an annual depletion of 57, 100 acre feet and construction of the facilities called for in ALP-Lite <br />will not endanger native fish in the San Juan River. <br /> <br />~ Tribal capital construction costs are non-reimburseable in lieu of full depletions promised in 1988 <br />Settlement Act. <br /> <br />~ Facilities were studied in the $10 million Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, <br />awaiting a Record of Decision from the Department ofInterior for nearly two years, and no <br />significant environmental impacts were described. <br /> <br />~ Avoids long, costly and divisive litigation. <br /> <br />~ Includes $29 million in up-front state and local cost-sharing. <br /> <br />~ Reduces original depletions from the Animas River by two-thirds. <br /> <br />~ Allows existing users in the San Juan Basin to continue to rely on existing supplies, while providing <br />the two Tribes with a new supply of water to meet their present and future needs. <br /> <br />~ Responds in good faith to criticism of the full project. <br /> <br />Please visit our website at www.animaslp.com. <br />\..0...\:,;,-\-<<. o-f Sov-n,,,-~,,- Uh.. -+ U t... 1'\<>-:.,:;1-,,:,1'... UTe... J..hd , "-n -r;:,b"", <br />