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Show as a legal agency on March 2, 1964, by order of the Fourth Judicial Court of Utah. The seven original counties included in the district were Duchesne, Juab, Summit, Wasatch, Uintah, Salt Lake, and Utah Counties. Three years later ( 1967), all or part of five additional counties petitioned to join the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, These counties are Garfield, Millard, Piute, Sanpete, and Sevier Counties, In May of 1967, the district approved the inclusion of the five additional counties, and this action was ratified by the Fourth Judicial Court of Utah in June of the same yearc Repayment contract No. 14- 06- 400- 4286, dated December 28, 1965, between the United States and the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, was validated by the Fourth Judicial Court of Utah on February 17, 1966. The people of the conservancy district endorsed the repayment contract for the Bonneville Unit and its proposed plan for construction by a general election on December 14, 1965. The total vote was about 13 to 1 in favor of the project. Only Uintah County failed to endorse the repayment contract by a majority vote. The contract covers the repayment by the conservancy district of an obligation of $ 130,673,000 ( with provisions for an increase), plus interest on the unpaid portion of this obligation for water used for municipal and industrial purposes. It also provides for the conservancy district to assume responsibility for the care, operation, and maintenance of project facilities. Under the contract, a development block notice would be issued by the United States to the district as water becomes available for sale. The notice would describe the uses to be made of the water, the repayment obligation assigned thereto, annual rates of payment, and the repayment period. Development Block Notice No. 1 ( Duchesne area) was issued to the conservancy district on June 19, 1970. This notice was for 21,400 acre- feet of irrigation water from Starvation Reservoir. It covered a 4- year development period and provided for an initial payment of $ 18,620 in 1975. Since receiving Block Notice No. 1 and authority from the repayment contract, the conservancy district has received petitions for the allotment of 13,822 acre- feet of irrigation water from water users in the Duchesne River area. The district has also received some petitions for the purchase of municipal and industrial ( M& I) water for use in the Uinta Basin. This water would be covered by an M& I block notice to be issued in the near future. On June 10, 1971, the Salt Lake County Water Conservancy District petitioned the Central Utah Water Conservancy District for a 20 / |