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<br />assumptions were flawed; and (7) as a general matter, the report inaccurately portrayed the <br />impacts of the designation on Tribal economies. <br /> <br />The FWS issued the final economic report on February 26, 1997, without any significant <br />amendment. Tribal criticisms of the draft economic report, therefore, also apply to the final <br />economic report, <br /> <br />C. THE GREEN RIVER SUB-BASIN <br /> <br />THE UTE INDIAN TRIBE OF THE UINT AH AND OURA Y RESERVATION <br /> <br />The Ute Indian Tribe is comprised of three bands of Ute Indians---the Uintah, White River, and <br />Uncompahgre Bands. Tribal members living oo-reservation number approximately 3,300, The <br />tribe is located on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation ("Reservation") which is comprised of two <br />separately established reservations: the Uintah Valley Reserve (the northern portion of the <br />Reservation), established by Executive Order 011 October 3, 1861; and, the Uncompahgre <br />Reserve (the southern portion of the Reservatioo), established by Executive Order on January 5, <br />1882, Together the reservations encompass approximately 4.5 million acres of Indian trust, fee, <br />and Federal public lands. Approximately one million acres are held in trust for the Tribe. <br /> <br />The entire reservation lies within the drainage of the Upper Colorado River basin. The <br />Duchesne, Lake Fork, Yellowstone, Uinta and Whiterock Rivers, and Rock Creek are among the <br />stream systems that arise on the Uintah Reservation and pass southeast from the Uinta Mountains <br />through the Reservation to the Green River and then on to the mainstem of the Colorado River. <br />Numerous non-Indian homesteads lie along these rivers on the reservation. The confluence of <br />the Duchesne and Green Rivers is near the town of Ouray and is surrounded by tribal trust land. <br />From there the Green River runs through the Uncompahgre Rescrve and borders tribal trust land <br />to the east and federal land to the west as it flows south from Ouray through Desolation Canyon. <br />The confluence of the White and Green Rivers is located just south of Ouray and is also <br />surrounded by tribal trust land, The White River flows west from Colorado through the <br />Uncompahgre Reserve with its last significant reach before the confluence with the Green River <br />surrounded by tribal trust land. <br /> <br />I. TRIBAL WATER RIGHTS AND CLAIMS AND INDIAN WATER PROJECTS <br /> <br />THE UINTAH INDIAN IRRIGATION PROJECT <br /> <br />Pursuant to statutes enacted in 1904-1905, the United States granted irrigation and grazing <br />allotments by trust patents to individual Ute Indians in accordance with the General Allotment <br />Act of 1887, and provided for the opening of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation to non-Indian <br /> <br />23 <br />