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<br />FEB-17-00 10,22 FROH,H.B.S.S. <br /> <br />PAGE <br /> <br />3/3 <br /> <br />10.870 247 8827 <br /> <br />~L>rc.."'jO M<.("c-Id <br /> <br />Babbitt wants A-LP bill this year <br /> <br />Herald Staff Report <br /> <br />Imerlor Department Secretary <br />Bruce Babbitt said he ",ill press <br />Congress to enact Animas-La Plata <br />Project legislation this year. <br />"The time has come to fulfill <br />our trust responsibility to the <br />tribC$," Babbitt "Tote. to national <br />e;wironmental organizations that <br />sent him a ,Ief[er in opposition of <br />A.LP; <br />"I.amcommitted .to follow <br />throughOIithhresponsi_biIicy by <br /> <br />working \\;th the Congress [0 <br />enact legislation in this session.' <br />Babbitt said the Climon admin. <br />istration's proposal -bears no <br />resemblance to the massive A.LP . <br />project that has been opposed by <br />the en\ir'onmenral communit'o' for <br />. many decades," in the lett~r to <br />WiIl;'am H. Mcadows, presidem of <br />The Wilderness Society. <br />Babbitt said the irrigation com. <br />ponent .of the original project, <br />'which called for much more <br />. water than the Animas River could <br /> <br />suppOrt.... is gone. And gone is the <br />'oversized reservoir that would <br />create a continuing incentive to <br />divert more \\~l'cr from the:: .-\ni- <br />mas River th'lll the river system <br />can: toler~l(e. . <br />'What is left is " down-sized off. <br />sr.ream resecyoh- that satisfies the <br />bulk of the tribes' warer rights, <br />and which stOres a limited amounc <br />of llll$ubsidi7.ed municipal Water <br />for the ~'To\..,ing f..'ommunities in <br />the Durango and Farmington <br />areas. " <br />