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Show On September 20, 1965, Contract No. 14-06-W-194 was executed among the United States (Bureau of Reclamation and Bureau of Indian Affairs), the Ute Indian Tribe and the Central Utah Water Conservancy District. In this agreement the non-Indian parties recognized the Indian lands totaling 36,450 acres as served or to be served from the Duchesne River and the Indians agreed to defer" development of 15,242 acres of the non-irrigated land. This deferral agreement permitted construction of the Bonneville Unit without objection from the Ute Tribe or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The deferred land was to be developed later by other Units of the Central Utah Project as soon as possible but no later than 2005. In a resolution by the Tribal Business Committee dated October 2, 1973, the Tribe asked how the United States could feasibly discharge its trust responsibility to assist the Tribe in the application of its water rights to beneficial use as prescribed in the Deferral Agreement without the Central Utah Project. The Secretary of the Interior responded to this resolution by reaffirming the United"States commitment to "finding a practical way to deliver the water to which the Tribe is entitled." Subsequent resolutions by the Tribe dated August 13, 1975, and December 8, 1976, reaffirmed support for the Central Utah Project, requested concurrent development for Indian Development and/or proposed negotiations be conducted in consideration of total Indian benefits being sought. The Ute Indian Tribe have long looked to the Central Utah Project as a means to develop their water resources. To them, the discontinuation ^J J of this project would result in many years delay in development as well j./ Aj as loss in public support throughout Utah and the financial assistance of £>f the Colorado River Storage Project and the Central Utah Water Conservancy * |
