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<br />Conservancy District, the Dolores Water Conservancy DIstrict, the
<br />Florida Water Conservancy District, the Mancos Water Conservan-
<br />cy District, and the Southwestern Water Conservation District, On
<br />June 30, 1986, the U,S. Department of the Interior announced that
<br />the Administration had accepted the agreement for funding the
<br />Animas-La Plata Project. . .
<br />Subsequently, on December 10, 1986, all parties, including the
<br />Federal government, reached agreement,. on settlement ,of the
<br />Indian water rights claims which included the cost-sharing agree-
<br />ment, This settlement agreement, which is embodied inS. 1415,
<br />provides that the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe will receive the
<br />beneficial. use of water from the Dolores Project, from the AIiimas-
<br />La Plata Project, and from three streams flowing through the res-
<br />ervation. The Southern Ute Indian Tribe will receive the beneficial
<br />use of water from the Animas-La Plata project and from other
<br />water sources that serve the reservation, Integral to the settlement.
<br />is construction of the Animas-La Plata Project and the completion'
<br />of the Dolores Project irrigation facilities. The additional storage
<br />and water supply that will be made possible with such construction
<br />will insure that sufficient water will be available for the future
<br />needs of the tribes and the current needs of the non-Indian commu-
<br />nities,
<br />Under the settlement, a $60,5 million development fund will be
<br />set aside for tribal water resource development. The State of Colo-
<br />rado will contribute $5 million and will construct a domestic pipe-
<br />line to the Town of Towaoc, Towaoc is headquarters Qf the Ute
<br />Mountain Ute Indian Tribe and the only town on the reservation.
<br />Water has been trucked to the Town of Towaoc for domestic pur-
<br />poses for 40 years. . .'
<br />In order to implement the Agreement, the Federal Government
<br />needs to enact legislation dealing with the authority of the Secre-
<br />tary of the Interior to deliver water from the Animas and Dolores
<br />Projects and to specify the extent to which Reclamation Law would
<br />apply to the water provided to the Tribes, to provide for the repay-
<br />ment of the allocable costs, to waive the Indian Intercourse Act to
<br />permit the Tribes to use the water rights. provided in the settle-
<br />ment agreement as provided in the Agreement, and to establish a
<br />Tribal Development fund, .
<br />Authorization for the Animas-La Plata project was included in
<br />the Colorado River Basin Project Act of 1968 which also authorized
<br />the Central Arizona project as well as other upper Colorado River
<br />Basin development projects. A provision in fiscal year 1985 Supple-
<br />mental Appropriations Act made expenditure of funds for the
<br />project conditional upon the Secretary of the Interior and non-Fed-
<br />eral parties entering into agreement for u}J"front cost sharing. Sub-
<br />sequently, the Departments of Justice and Interior insisted that
<br />settlement of the Tribal claims also be included. The settlement/
<br />cost sharing agreement was executed on June 30,1986 and a repay-
<br />ment contract has been approved by the voters of the Animas-La-
<br />Plata Water Conservancy District.
<br />The,project would be a mult~ple-pufI~os~waterresourcedevelo}J"
<br />ment In the Upper Colorado RIver BaSIn In southwestern Colorado
<br />and Northwestern New Mexico, Municipal and industrial water
<br />would be furnished to Durango and to the rural La Plata area in
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