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<br />7 <br /> <br />quantification of 250,000 acre-feet would entail the relinquishment of claims to 1.75 <br /> <br /> <br />million acre-feet a year. Assuming a smaller potential claim of 1.0 million acre-feet <br /> <br /> <br />and quantification at the larger diversion figure of 508,000 acre-feet, the lost or <br /> <br /> <br />waived claims amount to approximately 500,000 acre-feet a year. These are all <br /> <br />substantial amounts of water, and therefore substantial losses, in the arid West. <br /> <br />The political context of Indian water settlements gives rise to another feature of <br /> <br /> <br />quantification. Often a de facto bargain appears to exist between Congress and a <br /> <br />tribe: federal asssistance for water works or economic development in general comes <br /> <br />as compensation to a tribe for its agreement to give up some portion of its Winters <br /> <br /> <br />claim and limit itself to the quantified amount.18 <br /> <br />Indians can also compromise, waive, or otherwise relinquish the priority of their <br /> <br />Winters claims, in distinction from the quantity. In the case of a fully allocated <br /> <br />stream, giving up the priority of a Winters claim amounts to the same thing as <br /> <br />328. Early BIA testimony echoed the 281,000 acre-foot figure. Navaio Irrillation--San <br />]uan-Chama Diversion: Hearinis on S. 3648 before the Subcomrn. on Irrillation and <br />Reclamation of the Senate Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs. 85th Cong., 2d Sess. <br />48 (1958) [hereinafter. Senate Hearini 1958]. In later years, the figure became 252,300 <br />acre.feet. ~ l'lavaio Irriiation--San Juan-Chama Diversion. New Mexico: Hearinll on S. <br />72 before the Subcomm. on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Senate Comrn. on Interior <br />and Insular Affairs. 86th Cong., 1st Sess. 19 (1959) [hereinafter. Senate Hearini 1959] <br />and Navllio Indian Irriiation Project and San Juan-Chama Proiect: Hearinll on S. 107 <br />before the Subcomm. on Irrillation and Reclamation of the Senate Committee on Interior <br />and Insular Affairs 87th Cong., 1st Sess. 48 (1961) [l1ereinafter. Senate Hearinll 1961]. <br /> <br />18 See. e.~., F. Cohen,.2IW note 4 at 598. See also Price and Weatherford, ~ <br />note 3 at 100 and 124. <br />