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assumptions were flawed; and (7) as a general matter, the report inaccurately portrayed the impacts of the designation on Tribal economies. 23 The FWS issued the final economic report on February 26, 1997, without any significant amendment. Tribal criticisms of the draft economic report, therefore, also apply to the final economic report. c. THE GREEN RIVER SUB-BASIN THE UTE INDIAN TRIBE OF THE UINT AH AND OURA Y RESERVATION The Ute Indian Tribe is comprised of three bands of Ute Indians---the Uintah, White River, and Uncompahgre Bands. Tribal members living on-reservation number approximately 3,300. The tribe is located on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation ("Reservation") which is comprised of two separately established reservations: the Uintah Valley Reserve (the northern portion of the Reservation), established by Executive Order on October 3, 1861; and, the Uncompahgre Reserve (the southern portion of the Reservation), established by Executive Order on January 5, 1882. Together the reservations encompass approximately 4.5 million acres ofIndian trust, fee, and Federal public lands. Approximately one million acres are held in trust for the Tribe. The entire reservation lies within the drainage of the Upper Colorado River basin. The Duchesne, Lake Fork, Yellowstone, Uinta and Whiterock Rivers, and Rock Creek are among the stream systems that arise on the Uintah Reservation and pass southeast from the Uinta Mountains through the Reservation to the Green River and then on to the mainstem of the Colorado River. Numerous non-Indian homesteads lie along these rivers on the reservation. The confluence of the Duchesne and Green Rivers is near the town of Ouray and is surrounded by tribal trust land. From there the Green River runs through the Uncompahgre Reserve and borders tribal trust land to the east and federal land to the west as it flows south from Ouray through Desolation Canyon. The confluence of the White and Green Rivers is located just south of Ouray and is also surrounded by tribal trust land. The White River flows west from Colorado through the Uncompahgre Reserve with its last significant reach before the confluence with the Green River surrounded by tribal trust land. 1. TRIBAL WATER RIGHTS AND CLAIMS AND INDIAN WATER PROJECTS THE UINTAH INDIAN IRRIGATION PROJECT Pursuant to statutes enacted in 1904-1905, the United States granted irrigation and grazing allotments by trust patents to individual Ute Indians in accordance with the General Allotment Act of 1887, and provided for the opening of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation to non-Indian