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<br />DENVER (AP) - The U.S. Fish and ','Southem Ute' and Ute Mountain Ute
<br />Wildlife Service Is recommending a ,Indian trtbes requlre that the project be
<br />seven-Year study on the environmental ,,-completed 1n;10years. .
<br />Impact of the Animas-La Plata Project - " Groundbreaklng on the $582 million
<br />a move which would effectively kill the water' projltt had been delayed untU
<br />project, Rep. Ben Nlghthorse Campbell June so Dlologlsts could complete an
<br />said today.' .,' ", ' ,', endangered species study on possIble
<br />Campbell 'said . the agency de- effects on' squawllsh and razorback
<br />I",.termined the project would have suckers, .
<br />,: adverse Impacts on other water projects Campbell said the ruling doesn't
<br />" In New Mexico and Colorado that make sense, because the federal gov-
<br />further Investigation Is required. emment previously Implemented a pro-'
<br />Campbell said contracts with the,' gram.. to, <<:1lmInate the fish IUs now
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<br />trying to protect " The San Juan, as It now flows through
<br />'We have an organization that effec- "New Mexico and Utah, Is one of only
<br />tively killed the fish, anci then com- . five livers believed to be supporting
<br />plains because they're an endangered wild populations of squawflsh. '
<br />fish.'" ; , The Fish and Wildlife Sen1ce In Feb- ,
<br />A spokesman for the Fish' and niary had called for a restudy of the
<br />Wildlife Service declined to comment on project and Its bIological Impact under
<br />the Endangered Species Act
<br />the ruling. 'Fish and Wildlife service biologists
<br />According to biologists, the gave Initial approval to the Animas-La
<br />'Animas.La Plata Project would deplete Plata In 1979 after the agency found
<br />up to 18 percent of the San Juan River just one squawflsh lIvtng downstream
<br />flows now relied upon by the rare fish. of the project
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