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<br />BUREAU OF RECLAMATION REPORT <br /> <br />1952 but excluded from development, adjustments would be made in the <br />levies charged all lands from 1953 through 1962 to permit such refunds. <br /> <br />6. The 730 acres of presently irrigated land not paying on <br />reservoir construction costs from 1943 through 1952 would make up <br />back payments in addition to meeting regular assessments in the <br />period 1953 through 1962. <br /> <br />7. The 2,240 acres of extension land not paying on the reser- <br />voir from 1943 through 1952 would not be required to make up back pay- <br />ments during the extension development and repayment periods. <br /> <br />8. On completion of the extension in 1954 extension lands would <br />start payment of extension operation, maintenance, and replacement <br />costs and in 1964, following a 10-year development period, they would <br />start payment on construction costs and continue such payments for 50 <br />years, the irrigation repayment period being considered for projects <br />participating in the benefits and revenues of the Colorado River <br />Storage project. <br /> <br />Under conditions assumed, payments from non-Indian extension <br />lands would amount to about $1.30 an acre until 1981 when Vallecito <br />Dam and Reservoir costs would be paid and to $2.60 an acre for 34 <br />years thereafter. Thus the non-Indian payments on extension costs <br />would total $1,441,798 in the 50-year repayment period. <br /> <br />Indian lands. The 1,940 acres of Indian land in the extension, <br />including a few tracts of non-Indian land within the Pine River Indian <br />irrigation project, would be obligated for their share of the extension <br />operation, maintenance, and replacement costs and for $211,848 of the <br />construction costs. Their obligation toward construction costs would <br />be the equivalent of the payments that Would be made by the non-Indians <br />and would amount to $1.30 an acre from 1965 to 1980, inclusive, and to <br />j~2.60 from 1981 to 2014, inclusive. The obligations of lands in <br />actual Indian ownership for construction, operation, and maintenance <br />costs would be subject to elimination or adjustment under an exten- <br />sion of the Leavitt Act of July 1, 1932. <br /> <br />Summary. A total of approximately ;~1,653 ,646 of the construc- <br />tion cost, including $1,441,798 assigned the non-Indians and $211,848 <br />assigned the Indians, would be paid in the 50-year period or adjusted <br />under an extension of the Leavitt Act. The remaining portion of the <br />construction cost, amounting to $2,434,604, would be paid from power <br />revenues of the Colorado River Storage project that would be credited <br />to the Upper Colorado River Account. In the event legislation is <br />enacted fixing the total repayment obligation for the existing project <br />at $1,500,000, extension lands would continue to pay up to their <br />ability. Their reduced obligation to pay on the existing project <br /> <br />12 <br />