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<br />APPENDIX B <br /> <br />By building these two Projects, the United States Government has the <br />opportunity to rectify serious social and economical injustice-s thae-- <br />it has created by: (1) waiting for over a century after the Ute <br />Reservations were established before it made any attempt to quantify <br />the water rights to which the Tribes are entitled, and (2) building <br />the Mancos Reclamation Project and obligating the water users of that <br />~ -~-~- <br />Project to a repayment obligation without analyzing the effect of <br />potential Indian water rights on the payment capability of those <br />water users. <br /> <br /> <br />The Justice Department is preparing to initiate other suits for the <br />purpose of quantifying the water rights of other Indian Tribes <br />throughout the Western United States. The cooperative approach to <br />solving the social and economic problems resulting from the establish- <br />ment of Indian water rights, as demonstrated by the two Ute Tribes, <br />could set a precedence of national significance. <br /> <br />~. <br />/ <br /> <br />.:' <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />. I <br /> <br />'" <br />,--.~ <br />,-,. <br />-.. <br /> <br />!;(: ' <br /> <br />-18- <br />