Uinta Indian Irrigation Project
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The Uinta Indian Irrigation Project is the principal Indian irrigation project in the Uintah Basin
. The United States
Bureau of Indian Affairs
designed and constructed this project. By 1935, the Uinta Indian Irrigation Project was irrigating over 77000 acres (311.6 km²) of Indian land. Today, it continues to serve Indian and non-Indian irrigators in the drainage of the Lake Fork River and elsewhere in the Basin. It continues to be owned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which has responsibility for its operation; however, operation has been turned over to a quasi-private operation and maintenance company organized in accordance with provisions of the Central Utah Project Completion Act
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Uintah Basin
The Uintah Basin, also spelled Uinta Basin, is a physiographic section of the larger Colorado Plateaus province, which in turn is part of the larger Intermontane Plateaus physiographic division. It is also a geologic structural basin in eastern Utah, east of the Wasatch Mountains and south of the...
. The United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the US Department of the Interior. It is responsible for the administration and management of of land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans in the United States, Native American...
designed and constructed this project. By 1935, the Uinta Indian Irrigation Project was irrigating over 77000 acres (311.6 km²) of Indian land. Today, it continues to serve Indian and non-Indian irrigators in the drainage of the Lake Fork River and elsewhere in the Basin. It continues to be owned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which has responsibility for its operation; however, operation has been turned over to a quasi-private operation and maintenance company organized in accordance with provisions of the Central Utah Project Completion Act
Central Utah Project Completion Act
The Central Utah Project Completion Act , enacted on October 30, 1992, removed responsibility for completing the Central Utah Project , a federal water project, from the United States Bureau of Reclamation...
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