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Show V W v V -- 22 Ksrarr news, Monday, juiy 5, 1 ' 976 u The plaintiff in the suit is New Mexico state Engineer Steve Reynolds Funds sought for Navajo river fight By Howard Grave WINDOW ROCK, Arte. CAP) Economic Development and Planning Committee, said there are about 701 ,000 irrigable acres within that portion of the Navajo reservation In New Mexico. He said a Bureau of Indian Affairs-eot- n missioned study estimated about 2,322,700 acre feet of water would be needed to imgate that acreage. Vlassis said the tribe is entitled to that water if all of the potentially irngabie land was putinto cultivation. Of course, the Navajo Nation need not actually use all this water for irrigation, Vlassis wrote. It might be used in part for industry, domestic use or recreation. Vlassis said the water's value was based on a tribal payment of $200 per acre foot of water in 1972 to private interests in Utah. Even if the Navajo Nation were ultimately granted only the water in tee San Juan River in New Mexico, it would be entitled to water with a value of $262 million, said the Vlassis report. He said water users presently are using Navajo water worth in excess of $13 million annually. - The legal firm nays it Navajo Natkai needs $128,333 to defend the tribe in a complex water suit of major magnitude. At stake in the forthcoming litigation are water rights the tribal at torney says would be worth more than $400 million to Americas largest Indian group. The suit, Reynolds vs. United States of Amierca. would determine Navajo water rights from the San Juan River in New Mexico. Without wider for industry, agsad recreational riculture, uses, the economic future of the Navajo people would be bleak and the hopes lor alleviating poverty which has so plagued the Navajo people would almost vanish, wrote George P. Vlassis of Phoenix. He heads the law firm of Vlassis, Ruzow and Linzer, the tribes general counsel. Vlassis, in a report to the tribal tk-ne- Vlassis report cited no specific data to support the water's value except the 1972 purchase. He said Navajos presently use less than 100.600 acre feet of water per year from the San Juan River. Vlassis' law firm wants a special sendees contract approved by tnbai legislators to defend the suit filed in state district court af Aztec, in extreme northwestern New Mexico. The report said the problem with the water value estimates is teat Navajo water rights will not be established without overcoming objections from every other water user on tee river ... He identified those users as the federal government, tee state of New Mexico, Jicariila Apache and Ute Mountain Indian tribes, the cities of Farmington and Aztec, N.M., and all angio water users. Even the Navajo Indian Irrigation will depike no more than 168,000 acre feet and possibly considerably less, the report said. Project The Vlassis proposal for the adds tional money sajs his office has no budgeted funds available to handle the litigation The request was signed April 28 by Tnbai Chan mn Peter MacDonald and two officials from the Office of Navajo Revenue Sharing The Office of General Counsel is budgeted for $250,000, plus $20,000 m legal expenses, through July 31. That is the Ylaisass law firm annual contract can be terminated by the tnbai council. MacDonald said several weeks ago the Vlassis firm receives closer to $330,000 annually for its N ivajo legal work In addition to the basic budget figure, th i firm also is paid for work in representing various tnbai departments and enterprises. when Vlassis request asked that the water adjudication fees come from federal revenue sharing funds used for economic development on tee 16 5 million acre reservation that extends into portions of A rizona, Utah and New Mexico non-India- n ;wf rrzrTit Save on Summer Fun Swing Sets from Tuff Boy A. 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