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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8220.106
Description
Animas-La Plata
State
CO
Basin
San Juan/Dolores
Water Division
7
Date
7/21/1997
Title
Agenda Item 18a Animas-La Plata Project and Romer/Schoettler Discussions - Status
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Board Memo
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<br />JUL-II-97 13.35 FROH.H.B.S.S. <br /> <br />ID.970 247 8827 <br /> <br />PAGE 21/27 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />~~ <br />lri <br />C\J <br /> <br />Southern Ute Grassroots Organiz:ltion <br />P.O. Box 637 Ignacio, CO 81137 970-563-4483 <br /> <br />June 10, 1997 <br /> <br />Animas-La PLata Lite Is Not For the Indians <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />Dear Senator or Representative: <br /> <br />The Southern Ute Grassroots Organization (SUGO) represents more than 200 Southern Ute and <br />Ute Mountain Ute tribal members in Colorado and is strongly supported by much larger <br />numbers. SUGO is an all-Ute organ.izaIion patterned after our traditional form of government- <br />Weare not an environmental group. Our leadership includes former elected Tribal officials and <br />a substantial majority of the Southern Ute Tribe's most revered and respected Elders. SUGO's' <br />prinwy objective is to bring about changes in aibal gove=ent and decision making that will <br />make it more inclusive and responsive to the general membership. <br /> <br />. We strongly oppose the proposed Animas-La Plata water project (ALP), and ask you to cut all <br />funding for ALP in fiscal year 1998. This project, which would cost federal ta."{payers $503 <br />million, survives today only because of its link to our tribal water rights. ALP is a hoax that will <br />not benefit our people; instead, it will economically empower a small number of non-Indian <br />farmers and developers at enormous taXpayer expense. We also oppose the ALP lite proposal <br />announced July 8, which would cut the Tribe's water allocation by 40 percent. <br /> <br />In hunting buffalo, our ancestors often employed a strategy of stampeding a herd over a cliff. <br />Once the herd was in motion, the pitfalls that would have stopped or swayed individual animals <br />or groups of animals became invisible. <br /> <br />This is the strategy of those who support ALP. In the past, Congress has been among those who <br />have stumbled blindly in support of this project. On behalf of our members, we ask you to <br />pause, let the dust clear, and put a stop to this fundamentally flawed project. We ask you to vote <br />to cut all funds for the Animas-La Plata WaIel' project from the fiscal year 1998 Energy and <br />Water Appropriations bill. However you decide to vote, do not be fooled by those who tell you <br />that ALP is for the Indians. Ask them who would benefit. Ask them how much it would cost. <br />Then form your own opinion based on die facts. Please consider the following: <br /> <br />. ..:..LP is a hollow promise to our tribes; it would deliver no water to our reservations and its <br />so-<:alled water supply for our tribes would stop over ten miles from the nearest Ute land. <br /> <br />. ALP has negative economic value: it would return only 36 cents for each taXpayer dollar <br />Invested. ALP also would have massive impactS on the narural and cWtur.li environment of <br />our homeland: We oppose this waste of our taxes and environment. <br /> <br />. For over twenty-five years, the Southern Ute. Tribe was represented by an attorney who also <br />represents the non-Indians set to get massive federal subsidies from ALP. This conflict of <br />interest harmed our tribe during formulation of the _">il' proposal by preventing examination <br />of better alternatives. Unfonunarely, some ALP supporters are using our tribes to get <br />subsidies, not working on our behalf. <br /> <br />The Bureau of Reclamation has already formally acknowledged an anticipatory breach of <br />contract with our tribes since it cannot constrUct ALP in time to comply with the requirements of <br />the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act under any possible circumstances. This <br />admission triggers a Ute Indian exit clause in the Settlement Act that allows our tribes to <br />
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