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<br />c. What is the firm yield of the water rights that represent the average <br />price for irrigated croplaud in each river basin? <br />d. How much laud is available in each river basin which is irrigated by <br />water rights which have a priority date equal or senior to the water rights that represent the <br />average price for irrigated croplaud in each river basin aud where are those hmds located? <br />e. What analysis, if any, has been made to determiDe if such water rights <br />could be chllDged to mUDicipal aud industrial use and would secure for the Tribes an . <br />opportuDity to derive lID economic benefit or generate revenue from the use of such water <br />rights that would be equal to the allocations of municipal and industrial water that the Tribes <br />are entitled to receive from the Animas.La Plata Project? <br />f. Have you consulted with EP A as to how its wetlllDds preservation <br />policies would operate to reduce the quaotity of water that could be chauged to M&I use? <br />If so, please tell us what the wonderful folJcs at EPA told you? <br />9. 011 page 4 of the Conceptual Altemative is the statement that: <br />A stand2rd assumption Is also that each acre or Irripted <br />cropland uses 3 acre-feet of water per year. Alain, in order to <br />assure that our fipres were appropriately conservatll'f. we <br />assumed that each acre of Irripted cropland broupt with It only <br />2.5 acre-feet of water. <br />a. Is the standard assumption based on the assumption that 1) 3 acre-feet <br />is the minimum? average? amount of water diverted per year from the river for each acre of <br />irrigated cropland, 2) 3 acre-feet is minimum? average? amount of water delivered to farm <br />headgates per year for each acre of irrigated c:roplaud, or 3) 3 acre-feet is minimum? <br />average? amount of water consumed per year for each acre of irrigated croplllDd in growing <br />crops? <br />b. Is the standard assumption based on an lIDalysis of diversion records for <br />specific ditches in each river basin? If so, please identify the ditches and diversion records <br />that were used in the lIDalysis. <br />c. If the standard assumption is not based on an analysis of diversion <br />records for specific ditches in each river basin, what is the basis for the standard assumption? <br />d. If the standard assumption is based on a consumptive use analysis, is the <br />standard assumption based on the potential evapotraospiratioD or the actual <br />evapotranspiration associated with growing crops? Please describe the analysis on which the <br />standard assumption is based, including the assumed crop mix used in the analysis. <br />10. 011 page 4 of the ConcepJ'Ual Altemafive is the statement that: <br />$115,000,000 would be 5umdent to acquire the rull settIement <br />amounts of water. It sbould be DOted that the land which would <br />be acquired represents a very substantial additional value to the <br />Tribes above and beyond the settlement amounts of watee. <br />a. Does the Citizens Coalition agree that, at $4,000 per acre, the fund or <br />funds proposed in the Conceptual Altemative would allow the purchase of 28,750 acres of <br />irrigated land, including water rights? <br />b. Has the Ci&ens Coalition made ao estimate of the costs related to the <br />purchase of IllDd and water rights from the Fund (i.e.. appraisals. title insurance, title <br />opinions 011 the water rights, etc.)? If so, how much are the related costs lIDd how would <br />such costs be paid? <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />v,/v0'd 8S0V 998 E0E , <br /> <br />S3J~nOS3~ l~~nl~N ~O Id3G <br /> <br />6v:9, ~66,-~,-lJO <br />