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filed by BIA for tribal and allotted lands to be served from the White River totaling 5,470 acres. Diversions and depletions for these lands are quantified at 26,256 and 13,127 acre feet respectively. These are the only reserved water rights on the White River. The White River is not included within the General Stream Adjudication in the Uintah Basin and would have to be separately adjudicated. GrouD 7 lands: Lands lying east of Green River which have been found to be productive and economically feasible to irrigate from privately constructed ditch systems diverting from various streams, totaling 12,807 acres. Diversions and depletions for these lands are quantified at 59,227 and 29,116 acre feet respectively. Water rights for the Groups 6 and 7 lands maintain a January 5, 1882 priority date unless otherwise indicated in the Tabulation. For all the above rights which would be confirmed under the Compact, there will be a proceeding in the state court to enter a decree confirming the water rights in a compact. Non-Indian water users will have an opportunity to protest. 28 2. WATER DEVELOPMENT IN THE GREEN RIVER BASIN The largest storage facility in the Green River Basin is the Flaming Gorge Dam located on the Green River near the WyominglUtah border. However, a primary influence on the Green River Basin has been the various other Federal and non-Federal water projects that have been developed during the past century throughout the Basin but principally within the Duchesne River Basin. Following issuance of the Federal Court Decrees adjudicating a portion of the Tribe's senior reserved water rights in 1923, non-Indian water development increased at a rapid pace. That development was both privately and federally sponsored with extensive federal development initiated after passage of the Colorado River Storage Project Act of 1956 (CRSP). None of the completed development provided any storage or supplemental water supply to the Tribe or tribal lands despite the clear understanding of the need for storage to achieve a full water supply for the lands in the Uintah Indian Irrigation Project. STATE AND PRIV ATE WATER DEVELOPMENT IN THE DUCHESNE RIVER BASIN With the exception of traditional diversions by Native Americans, the first major diversions from the Duchesne River Basin began as early as 1879, when settlers in Heber Valley began diverting water collected in the Strawberry Valley to Daniels Creek for agricultural use in the Bonneville Basin. Concurrently, a number of "in basin" users diverted water directly from the Duchesne River for irrigation purposes and to meet the needs of individuals living along the mainstem and its tributaries.