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<br />)urango Herald Online <br /> <br />G02288 <br /> <br />r <br /> <br />Page I of, <br />ALIJ <br /> <br /> <br />,$(JCiety <br />j'l;>:'\-_ ," <br />'. </~tJrcgfp6rfedfor~ <br /> <br />. ,,,<V i(9tion Rentals <br />A.'!It~to MOU!,:~OR. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />B Email this article to a friend <br /> <br />October 4, 2003 <br /> <br />B <br /> <br /> <br />",;:i\...,ry"I"W!lmV;;m;,J""'" <br /> <br />News <br /> <br />/&. . <br />DURANGO <br />/~.; r ~:,..::' 1". <br />./............. <br /> <br />Bureau takes blame for A-LP costs <br /> <br />By Charles Ashby <br />Herald Denver Bureau Chief <br /> <br />Michzen <br />Nargi <br />Homes <br /> <br />Proponents of the Animas-La Plata Project have joined forces to lay <br />blame for $162.1 million in cost overruns solely on the U.S. Bureau <br />of Reclamation - blame the bureau says it will accept. <br /> <br />~ <br />-Fi1~dS- <br />Family <br /> <br />Forty-four proponents and lawyers, meeting in secret Aug. 14 at Sky <br />Ute Casino in Ignacio, agreed to try to get the bureau to take <br />responsibility for the ballooning construction costs, rather than to <br />point fingers at one another. <br /> <br />The meeting took place two <br />weeks after the bureau <br />disclosed that its estimate of <br />A-LP's construction cost had <br />risen to $500 million, 48 <br />percent more than the $338 <br />million estimated previously. <br />The meeting took place one <br />week before lawyers for two <br />water districts and Colorado's <br />two Ute tribes signed a <br />nondisclosure agreement <br />vowing to keep silent publicly <br />on what they know about the <br />overruns. <br /> <br />Who was there <br /> <br /> <br />Forty-four people from 12 Colorado and <br />New Mexico public and private entities <br />attended a closed meeting at the Sky <br />Ute Casino in Ignacio in August to <br />discuss a 48 percent increase in <br />construction costs for the Animas-La <br />Plata Project. The entities and their <br />representatives (lawyers David Robbins <br />and Sam Maynes appear twice): <br /> <br />Animas-La Plata Conservancy <br />District: Lawrence Huntington, Pat <br />Greer, Mike Griswold, David Robbins, <br />Lynn Herkenhoff, Doris Brennan, Gene <br />Bradley, Bob Taylor, Charlie and Frieda <br />Blassingame, Mark Langford, Fred <br />Kroeger, Sam Maynes. <br /> <br />"A conunon theme of the <br />discussion was that we should <br />not start blaming each other Ute Mountain Ute Tribe: Dan Israel, <br /> <br />lllp:/ /www.durangoherald.comlasp- bin! artic Ie --Eenerati on. asp ?artic Ie _ type=news&artic I e -path~/news/03/... <br /> <br />10/16/200: <br />