WSP10769

• File Number: 8220.105
• Description: Colorado River-Water Projects-Navajo
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 7/1/2001
• Author: BOR
• Title: Revised Draft Environmental Assessment for the Jicarilla Apache Nation Water Subcontract-aka USBR/PNM Water Contract Renewal and Extension
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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employment during the 1960 to 1970 period: agriculture, forestry and fisheries (-46.0 percent);
construction (-33.5 percent): and manufacture of non-durable goods (-46.7 percent) (USBR 1977).

Table 7 shows gains in all areas of employment between 1970 and 1990 with the exception of durable
g.oods. which showed a decline of 10.4 percent. The declining trend in employment between 1960 and
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1970 reversed itselfin most areas by 1990 with sizable gains in the following areas: agriculture, forestry
and fisheries (120.4 percent); mining (62.6 percent); construction (102.1 percent); transportation,
communications, utilities and sanitary services (205.5 percent); trade (143.8 percent): finance, insurance
and real estate (162.0 percent); and services (145.8 percent) (USDOC 1992).

Currently, SJGS has 439 full-time employees of which 63 are Native American (/4.0 percent). BHP,
including SJCc. currently employs 400 at La PlaIa and San Juan mines which supply SJGS with coal.
Of BHP's total, 75 percent of their employees are Native American (BHP 1999).

6.7.2 Taxes

A major portion of San Juan County's revenue is linked to the energy industry and to SJGS in particular.
SJGS paid $7.2 million in property taxes in ) 998 with $6.8 million going directly to San Juan County
(Hampton 1999). In addition, La Plata and San Juan mines together paid property taxes of $2, 180,203,
severance tax of$6, 140,450, gross receipts tax at $9,994,347, and the Conservation and Resource Excise
tax of$I,380,067 for a combined total for the mines of$19,695,067 for 1999 to the State of New Mexico.
Coal royalties in 1999 paid to the State of New Mexico totaled $5,652,510; royalties paid to the federal
government on federal coal leases were $4,744,376 in 1999 (BHP 2000).

6.7.3 Local Infrastructure

This section provides information on the transponation system in San Juan County, the education system,
sources for health care, and government agencies.

6.7,3.1 Transportation

Automobiles and trucks provide the primary means for passenger and freight movement in San Juan
County. The hard-surfaced highway network includes federal and Indian designated routes as well as
some which are unnumbered. The major roads within San Juan County are: U.S. 666, 550 and 64; NM
44, 170: and Indian Route I. Traffic is often heavy on the major highways, especially on U.S. Route 64
between Shiprock and Farmington. which is a modern, four-lane highway.

6.7.3.2 Education

San Juan County is served by a public school system made up of four independent school districts: Aztec,
Bloomfield, Central, and Farmington. Total enrollment for these four districts in the 1998-1999 academic
year was 24,798. There are also BIA schools which serve only Native American students in addition to a
number of private and parochial schools. Total enrollment for private schools in San Juan County was
2.342 for the 1998-1999 academic year (NM Department of Education 1998). Institutions for higher
education include the Navajo Community College in Shiprock and San Juan College in Farmington.
Technical-vocational schools include Crownpointlnstitute of Technology, Farmington Vo-Tec

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