The Issues, Risks and Deliverables lists are packaged as part of a special feature to enable Project integration. There's some additional code that enables Deliverables to be published to the Reporting datastore as well as consumed via MS Project Pro. Therefore,
it doesn't lend itself to being used as a list template. This might be why you are seeing the issue.
Most create entire site templates and those are connected to specific Enterprise Project Types. Hope this helps.
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