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. . Following this, and after six months of intense negotia- tions with the Department of the Interior, during which every aspect of the Agreement in Principle was revisited, on December 10, 1986, The Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Final Settlement Agreement ("Final Settlement Agreement") was signed by the Departments of the Interior and Justice, the State of Colorado, the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and various water conservancy districts, municipalities, ditch companies, and water users in Colorado. The Final Settlement Agreement was a lengthy and meticulous document, over 70 pages, and provided a comprehensive settlement of the tribes' claims for water. It included six major components: (1) The tribes received specified amounts of water from the Animas-La Plata and Dolores Projects and additional rights to certain quantities of water from various streams which pass through the reservation: (2) the tribes agreed to specific conditions governing the admin- istration and use of the reserved waters, i.e., beneficial use as a limiting condition, monitoring of water usage, sharing of streamflow data, and judicial change-in-use proceedings in state water court were required. The state water court was given jurisdiction over all water on the reservation not decreed to the tribes as a reserved water right, including both unappropriated water and state appropriative rights: (3) the tribes waived ancillary breach of trust claims against the United States; (4) the tribes received $60.5 million for tribal development funds to enable them to develop their water resources or otherwise make the reservations economically self-sufficient; (5) the non- federal parties contributed money to the construction of the Animas-La Plata Project and the tribal development funds: and (6) the federal government deferred tribal repayment of certain project costs until the water from the projects was actually put to beneficial use. CHANGE OF USE The Final Settlement Agreement quantified the priority, amount and source of the reserved water right, and identified the place of use, type of use, and diversion point for the water rights. It also established change proceedings to be followed if the tribe wanted a change in the type, place, or time of use or a change in the point of diversion of the water right. Change pro- ceedings were premised on the notion that the rights of other users must be protected if the tribes changed the use of their water. Under the Final Settlement Agreement, three separate change scenarios were examined based on the proposed place of use of the -6-