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Show contingent on a determination of its feasibility. The act also authorized planning for the Ute Indian Unit of the Central Utah Project. This act stated the following, under Title V, Section 501( a): "... that the planning report for the Ute Indian Unit of the Central Utah participating project shall be completed on or before December 31, 1974, to enable the United States of America to meet the commitments heretofore made to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation under the agreement dated September 20, 1965 ( Contract numbered 14- 06- W- 194)..." Midview Exchange Agreement The Bureau of Reclamation constructed the Midview Dam and Reservoir, Duchesne Diversion Dam, Duchesne Feeder Canal, and Midview Lateral as part of the Moon Lake Project. One of the original purposes of this project was to make an exchange of water with the Uintah Indian Irrigation Project operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Certain water rights ( 75,214.8 acre- feet per year) in the Lake Fork River were decreed to the United States for the use of, and as trustees of, the Indians of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, Utah ( The United States of America et al. v. Dry Gulch Irrigation Company et al., U. S. Dist. Ct. of Utah, Docket # 4418, dtd. March 16, 1963), under a priority that antedated October 3, 1861. After years of negotiation an " Agreement among the United States, Moon Lake Water Users Association, and the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation providing for Water Right Exchanges and Transfer of Irrigation Facilities" was made on November 16, 1967 ( Contract No. 14- 06- 400- 4822). Under this agreement, a sufficient amount of this decreed water to serve 10,000 acres of land was transferred from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Bureau of Reclamation for use of the Moon Lake Project. The Moon Lake Water Users Association ( acting under a repayment contract with the United States, dated June 22, 1934) and the Bureau of Reclamation agreed in paragraph 8 of the November 16, 1967, exchange agreement: "... to transfer to Indian Affairs the jurisdiction of the right, title, and interest in and to the Midview Dam and Reservoir, Duchesne Diversion Dam, 26 |
