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<br />FY96 Capability Statement
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<br />Date: February 24, 1995
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<br />Project:
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<br />Animas-La plata Participating Project, Colorado-New
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<br />Appropriation:
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<br />construction
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<br />Authorization:
<br />Law 100-585,
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<br />Public Law 90-537, dated September 30, 1968; Public
<br />November 3, 1988
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<br />IU'rIUrhld FiNncht Dau fl'duIl Non'~oder.l Toul
<br /> ?1J'1 'lZo 1700 ,
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<br />~Tot.l"E.tlmated Coat -1457,783,500. .- "st2I;276,500 5686,060,000 -
<br />AlloeDtions to Dlte, ~3,030,011 399,000 53,429,011
<br />Including FY 1995
<br />Budget Ranue&t, FY 1996 5.129,000 470,000 5,799,000
<br />Balance to Complete 399,624,489 227.207.500 624,831.989
<br />After Ff 1996
<br />Added Cooobi! i ty, FT 1996 8,871,000 2,330,000 1',20',000
<br />Totel CapabIlIty '1',000,000 '3,000,000 '17,000,000
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<br />Location and Descrintion: The Animas.La Plata Project, located in
<br />southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico is authorized to supply
<br />municipal. industrial, and irrigation water to the colorado Ute Indians and to
<br />non-Indians in the area. The project is to be developed in two phases. Phase
<br />1 will provide irrigation service for 42,815 acres, municipal and industrial
<br />water service. and some recreation and fish and wildlife features with a total
<br />estimated cost of qS26 million. Phase 2 is to be financed and constructed by
<br />non-Federal entities at an estimated cost of $lGO million.
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<br />In June 1986, a cost-sharing agreement was signed with St~ta, Faderal, and
<br />Tribal entities, providing that Phase 1 of the project would bs constructed in
<br />not less than 12 years from initial construction, The Colorado Ute Indian
<br />Water Rights Settlement hct of 1988 was enacted to implement portions of the
<br />cost-eharing agreement and the December 1986 Final Settlement Agreement. If
<br />project water cannot be delivered to the Tribes by January 2000, the Tribes
<br />may elect (by January 2005) to commence litigation or renegotiation of their
<br />water rights claims on the Animas and La Plata Rivers,
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<br />In October 1991, the Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final biological
<br />opinion that allowed construction to be initiated on three of the Phase 1
<br />features and the initial depletion of 57,100 acre-feet annually, Further
<br />development on the project was made dependent upon the outcome of 7 years of
<br />research to determine endangered fish habitat needs,
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