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<br />By ROBERT ENGELMAN
<br />Rocky MountClin News Washington BUreau
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<br />,.~.. WASHINGTON - The Reagan administration will con-
<br />tinue to oppose building the controversial Animas-La Pia-
<br />til water project in Colorado and New Mexico until its
<br />beneficiaries or the states pay up Some of the needed
<br />money, [jn Interior Department official said Tuesday.
<br />"We feel that il Animas-La Plata,is going to be built, it',
<br />going to require contributions from project beneficiaries,"
<br />said Harold W, Furman, deputy secretary lor water and
<br />science in the department. "It's the negotiations (on sbar-
<br />ing costs) that are bolding it up."
<br />, The water project spans tbe border of soutbwestern
<br />Cotof<.Jdo and northwestern New Mexico. First authorized
<br />, by Congress in 1968, it has never received funds for
<br />construction, It was noticeably absent from the federal
<br />hudget that Reagan submitted last week. So was the
<br />Narrows Unit project jn northeastern Colorado, anotber
<br />project that has been authoriied but never funded.
<br />Furman spoke at a hearing .of the water resources
<br />subcommittee of the House Interior Committee, which is
<br />considering changes in water'development policies. The
<br />. lone congressman and acting chairman of the hearing was
<br />Hep, Raymond Kogovsek, D-Colo., wbo represents Colora.
<br />, do's Westem Slope. '
<br />Kogovsek and Rep. Hank Brown, R-Colo., whose north-
<br />eastern Colorado district includes tbe Narrows project,
<br />ha've criticized the administration for ignoring the two
<br />state projeels, The congressmen point to Reagan's 1980
<br />campaign promises to renew flagging water development
<br />ill the West.
<br />, Last lall. then.lnterior Secretary James G. Watt told
<br />congressional officials .he favored building Animas.La
<br />, Plata, The project is designed as a multipurpose water
<br />storage project - including storage for municipal and
<br />in<lustrial uses and lor Ute Indian coal development.
<br />According 10 Kogovsek, the Interior Department origi-
<br />nally proposed to include construction money for Animas.
<br />La PlaW' in the fiscal year 1985 budget. But budget
<br />director David Stockman shot ,down the department's'
<br />. plans as too expensive,
<br />"The administration as a rule does support Animas-La
<br />Plata," Furman insisted to Kogovsek on Tuesday. "I don't
<br />think (its absence lrom the, federal budget) should be
<br />, interpreted as a backing away from tbat support."
<br />Asked later to explain .tbe contradiction of supporting a
<br />project but opposing its funding, Furman said the admin-
<br />istr;;ation would endorse construction -once a cost-sharing.
<br />agreement was worked out.
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<br />Animas,La Plata is expected ultimately to cost as much
<br />as $600 million. The projeCted cost of the Narrows Unit,
<br />which Interior never' backed, is around $360 million. '
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<br />Asked what the administrati9n would regard as accept-
<br />able cost-sharing lor Animas-I:a Plata, Furman said that
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