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Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project <br /> near Bloomfield,New Mexico; on the east by U.S. Highway 550 to approximately <br /> Counselor,New Mexico; and on the south from a point westward into Arizona near <br /> Window Rock, with a dip south of Manuelito to include the city of Gallup. <br /> The Jicarilla Apache Nation Reservation lands portion of the proposed project area is <br /> bounded generally on the south and west by U.S. Highway 550 and then north parallel to <br /> State Highway 537, on the north by the main reservation, and on the east by the Mundo <br /> Ranch area. <br /> The Proposed Project Area <br /> Navajo Nation <br /> The Navajo Nation Reservation was established in 1868 and has been expanded through <br /> a series of Executive orders to become the largest American Indian(Indian)reservation <br /> in the United States. The Navajo Nation encompasses 26,897 square miles within the <br /> States of Arizona,New Mexico, and Utah, constituting an area larger than the State of <br /> West Virginia. According to the U.S. Census Bureau (2000), on-reservation population <br /> was 181,000, and, nationwide, approximately 300,000 people indicated they were <br /> Navajo. The Navajo have a high level of poverty, with more than 56 percent having <br /> incomes below the poverty level and a reservation unemployment rate of 54 percent <br /> (Rodgers, 1995). <br /> Jicarilla Apache Nation <br /> The Jicarilla Apache Nation is located in north-central New Mexico and includes <br /> approximately 742,800 acres. Additional private parcels of land adjacent to the <br /> reservation have been acquired by the Jicarilla Apache Nation in recent years,resulting in <br /> 97,000 acres being added to the reservation through trust acquisition actions by Congress. <br /> The Jicarilla Apache Nation is by far the largest employer of its people, providing social <br /> services and management of its natural resources. Tribal unemployment rates are about <br /> 16.6 percent in the summer and 28.7 percent in the winter(Jicarilla Apache Nation, <br /> 1998). <br /> City of Gallup <br /> The city of Gallup is the county seat of McKinley County,New Mexico, and is the <br /> economic center for a 15,000-square-mile trade area. The city is located on two major <br /> highways—Interstate Highway 40, from east to west, and Route 491, which extends <br /> north to Shiprock. The city is a tourism center and also has industries centering <br /> –4 <br />