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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />" <br /> <br /> <br />Table 2. LA WMA Water Ri hts Financed B CWCB Loans <br />Avg. Cons. Use Cost per Ac-Ft <br />Ac-Ft er Year Cost of Cons. Use <br />/4;600 $1,937,440 $484 <br />."J,372 $651,394 $475 <br />4,640 $3,124,371 $673 <br />262 $177,000 $676 <br />10,274 $5,890,205 $573 <br /> <br />While the average price of the X-Y and Manvel rights is $480 per acre-foot, the HigWand and <br />Fort Bent transactions have an average price of $675 per acre-foot. The preceding table also <br />indicates that water rights lending to LAWMA will total about $5.89 million if the Board <br />approves the Highland and Fort Bent loan taking into account the release of the funds in the <br />escrow account. Total lending to LAWMA for all purposes will be about $6.0 million when the <br />$130,000 in feasibility study loans are added in, <br /> <br />WATER RIGHTS APPRAISAL <br /> <br />The Paddock and Milenski appraisal report summarizes 16 sales of water rights or land and water <br />rights in the Arkansas Basin in the last two to two and a half years to arrive at an opinion of value <br />for the Highland shares. The appraisal concludes that the market price is rising and that the <br />"minimum fair market value" for the 4,640 HigWand shares is $878 per share or $675 per acre- <br />foot of consumptive use. <br /> <br />Ofthe 16 sales tabulated in the appraisal, however, only two have prices at or near $675 per acre- <br />foot. The great majority of sales fall about $100 or more below that level. The average price per <br />acre-foot for all of the 16 transactions is $495. Attachment A is a graphical representation of the <br />information in the appraisal report. <br /> <br />. i <br /> <br />LENDING RATE <br /> <br />LAWMA is requesting a 2.0 percent, 40-year loan for the Highland and Fort Bent purchases with <br />annual payments of $67,200 in years one through ten. The previous loan for the Manvel and X-Y <br />purchases was made with an effective rate of return of 3 .0 percent. The standard agricultural <br />Construction Fund lending rate for this year is 3.75 percent. Table 3 gives the estimated annual <br />payments for three lending rates with a principal loan amount of $2,213,971 and requested annual <br />payments of$67,200 in the first ten years. <br /> <br />3 <br />