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<br />. Preserves the finality of adjudications and settlements on water courses crossing the <br />reservations. <br /> <br />· Eliminates or reduces the Tribes' operation, maintenance and repayment obligations under the <br /> <br />proposed Animas-La Plata project (potentially in excess of$30 million for the Ute Mountain <br />Utes and $140 million for the Southern Utes). <br />. Uses free market mechanisms to solve an existing problem. <br />. Allows the Tnl>es to enhance the integrity of their reservations by adding to the reservations <br /> <br />checkerboarded lands or adjacent lands of cultural, economic, historic or natural resource <br /> <br /> <br />significance. <br /> <br /> <br />. Advances policies and practices ofIand and water rights acquisition which both Tribes are <br /> <br /> <br />now successfully using with their non-Indian neighbors. <br /> <br /> <br />. Avoids new project construction. <br /> <br /> <br />. Achieves economic and environmental efficiencies by use of existing projects. <br />. Provides substantial storage opportunities. <br />5. Pro Forma Analysis orTwo Water Acquisition Scenarios. <br />The willing seller acquisition and existing projects components of this alternative are <br />properly understood as complementary. There are a number of different combinations of these <br />elements that could be used to satisfy the obligation to the Ute Tribes. Cost would vary somewhat <br />depending upon the combination of options that was chosen. The following are two pro forma <br />analyses of plausible combinations of these elements. The first analyzes acquisition of 57,000 <br />acre\feet of willing seller water, and acquisition of 5,000 acre\feet of available M&I water in the <br />Dolores project. The second analyzes acquisition of27,SOO acre\feet of water in Vallecito <br /> <br />9 <br />