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provisions or the alternative announced by the rull coalition at a press conference In Durango last week. a. Do the private citizens who submitted the Minority Alternative qree with the answeJS of the Citizens Coalition Conceptual Alternative? If DOt. please describe any differeDces in your answeJS and the Citizens Coalition aDSWeJS. b. If the private citizens have not reviewed the answeJS to the questions to the Citizens Coalition concerning its Conceptual Alternative and 'cannot answer question La.. please answer the questions to the Citizens Coalition concerning its Conceptual Alternative. 37. On page 2 of the Minority Alternative is the statement that: We believe an alternative that dws ralrly and equally with the Interests or all the prlndpal parties Is workable and doable. Indeed;'lt Is atremely Important to each member or our group that ALL or the various publics be treated equitably. a. Do the private citizens agree that the United States has a trust respollSibiJily to the Southern Ute IIIId the Ute MolUlta.UI Ute Indian Tnbes? b. Do the pmate citizens agree that tlle United States cantlot compromise or breach its trust responsibility to tbe Tribes so that all of tbe various publics are treated "equitably"? c. Do the private citizens agree that the Southern Ute and the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribes have a fiduciary responsibility to current tribal membeJS and future generations to secure for tbe Tribes water rights or an opportunity to derive an economic benefit or generate revenue from the use of their water rights, a responsibility that the Tribes eaIlDot compromise so that all of the various publics are treated "equitably"? d. Do the private citizens agree that the State of Colorado has a respoDSl"bility to its citizens whose vested water rights under state law were threatened by tlle water rights claims of the Tribes to settle disputes IIIId remove causes of future controversy between the Tribes and tbe State concerning the rights to beneficially use water in southwestern Colorado? e. Do tbe private citizens agree that the Southwestern Water Conservation District is a political subdivision of the State of Colorado that was created by state statute based on the express legislative declaration that: . . . tbe coDselVation of the water of the San Juan and Dolores rivers and their tributaries for storage, irrigation. mining, IIIId mllIlufacturing purposes and the construction of re5elVoiJS, ditehes. and works for tlle purpose of inigation and reclamation of additional lands not yet irrigated, as well as to furnish a supplemental supply of water for lands now under irrigation, is of vital import.anee to the growth and development of the entire district and the welfare of all its inhabitants and that, to promote the health and general welfare of the state of Colorado, an appropriate agency for the conselVation, use, and development of the water resources of the San Juan and Dolores riveJS and their principal tributaries should be established and given such powers as may be necessary to safeguard for Colorado, all wateJS to which the state of Colorado is equitably entitled. 38. On page 3 of tbe Minority Alternative is the statement that: 10 v,/".d 8S0V 998 ~0~ , S3J~nOS3~ l~~nl~N ~O Id3G ~S:9, ~66,-~,-lJO