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Phase I being further divided into two stages and providing storage water to southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. As conceived, the project would provide water for the settlement of tribal water rights for the Ute Mountain Ute Indian and Southern Ute Indian Tribes, as well as municipal, industrial and irrigation water to other citizens of Colorado and New Mexico and the Shiprock community of the Navajo Nation. Following the completion of the FSFES in 1996, Colorado Governor Roy Romer and Lt. Governor Gail Schoettler convened the project supporters and opponents in a process intended to seek resolution of the controversy involved in the original Animas-La Plata Project and to attempt to gain consensus on an alternative to the original project. The Romer-Schoettler process concluded in 1997 with the suggestion of two alternatives, a structural and non-structural proposal. The Animas-La Plata Reconciliation Plan (Structural Proposal) proposed to construct the initial stage of the project as described in the FSFES, with some modifications. The Animas River Citizens' Coalition Conceptual Alternative (Non-structural Proposal) proposed to purchase irrigated lands and other associated water rights near the existing Ute reservations in southern Colorado and would use or purchase water from existing projects or from expanded projects/delivery systems for the purpose of providing Indian-only water. On August 1 1, 1998, the Secretary of the Interior presented an Administration Proposal to build adown-sized version of the Animas-La Plata Project to implement the Colorado Ute water rights settlement which would include a non- structural element as part of the settlement implementation. Under the Administration Proposal the project would supply only municipal and industrial water. The project would include both structural and non-structural elements designed to achieve the fundamental purpose of securing the Ute Tribes an assured water supply in satisfaction of their water rights as determined by the 1986 Settlement Agreement and the 1988 Settlement Act, and by providing for identified municipal and industrial water needs in the project area. Other previously contemplated project features would be deauthorized. The Administration Proposal also calls for implementation of the project in accordance with all applicable environmental laws, utilizing whatever pre-existing analysis is available and pertinent. 3. Colorado and Wyoming a. Savery-Pot Hook Project As required by Section 20411) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (P.L. 94-579), Reclamation completed a withdrawal review on lands withdrawn for the Savery-Pot Hook Project. In April 1983, Reclamation submitted a report to BLM recommending that its withdrawals for this project, totaling approximately 11,303 acres, be terminated in their entirety. That recommendation has not yet been processed by BLM. In September 1996, the Interior Department's Inspector General completed an audit report entitled, "Withdrawn Lands, Department of the Interior." As a result of recommendations made in that audit report, it is anticipated that BLM will soon begin to clear a large backlog of unprocessed recommendations. 45