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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />contained in an amended decree consistent-with this Stipulation shall <br />becorne final; (2) the Tribe shall be entitled to the full water right as <br />described in this Paragraph 6.A.; and (3) the Tribe shall not be entitled to <br />claim any additional reserved water rights either on the Animas River or <br />on the La Plata River. <br /> <br />b. lfthe Animas-La Plata Proj.;:ct facilities necessary' to deliver the Tribe's <br />municipal and industrial water are 110t completed so as to enable the <br />delivery of water to the Tribe as described in this Paragraph 6.A. by <br />January 1,2009, then by January 1, 2012, the Tribe, in consultation with <br />the United States as trustee, must elect either: (1) to retain the water right; <br />or (2) to commence litigation or renegotiation of its pending reserved and <br />appropriate water rights claims on the Animas and La Plata Rivers. If the <br />Tribe, in consultation with the United States as trustee; has not elected to <br />commence litigation or renegotiation of its pending claims on the Animas <br />and La Plata Rivers by notification to the parties by January 1, 2012, as <br />provided below, then: (1) the Tribe shall be deemed to have elected to <br />retain its water right; (2) the settlement of the Tribe's pending reserved <br />and appropriative water rights claims on the Animas and La Plata Rivers <br />contained in this Stipulation or Amended Consent Decree shall become <br />fmal; and (3) the Tribe shall not be entitled to claim any additional <br />reserved water rights either on the Animas River or on the La Plata River. <br />If the Tribe elects to commence litigation or renegotiation of its pending <br />reserved and appropriate water rights claims 011 the Animas and La Plata <br />Rivers, then the Tribe shall relinquish and forfeit the water right from the <br />Animas-La Plata Project as described in: this Paragraph 6.A.; provided, <br />however, that if the Animas-La Plata Project facilities necessary to deliver <br />the Tribe's municipal and industrial water are at any time thereafter <br />completed so as to enable the delivery of water to the Tribe or if the Tribe <br />elects at any ~irne thereafter to receive an allocation of water from Ridges <br />Basin Reservoir, then: (1) the Tribe shall be entitled to the full water right <br />as described in this Paragraph 6.A.; (2) the Tribe shall not be entitled to <br />claim any other reserved water rights either on the Animas River or on the <br />La Plata River; and (3) the Tribe shall relinquish any then-pending <br />reserved water rights claims or any benefits it may have obtained by <br />litigating or renegotiating its reserved water rights claims on the Animas <br />and La Plata Rivers, including aU reserved water rights which may have <br />been decreed. <br /> <br />Notice of the Tribe's election shall be made as follows: to the United <br />States, through the Secretary ofthe Interior and the Attorney General; to <br />the Tribes, through the respective Tribal Chairman; to the State, through <br />the Attorney General; and to all other parties, through their respective <br />offices. <br /> <br />c. Notwithstanding the first proviso to Paragraph 14 of the 1991 <br /> <br />8 <br />