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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />, I <br /> <br />things, NEP A compliance; <br /> <br />b. the Animas-La Plata Project Compact,g 37-64-101, C.R.S. (1973); and <br />c. the La Plata River Compact, ~ 37-64-101, c.R.S. (1973). <br /> <br />iv. The final settlement of the Tribe's reserved water rights claims on the <br />Animas and La Plata Rivers as described in this Stipulation or Amended Consent <br />Decree shall be subject to the following conditions; <br /> <br />a. Ifthe Animas-La Plata Project facilities necessary to deliver the Tribe's <br />municipal and industrial water are completed so as to enable the delivery <br />of water to the Tribe as described ill this Paragraph 7.A. on or before <br />January 1; 2009, then: (1) the settlement of the Tribe*s pending reserved <br />and appropriative water rights claims on the Animas and La Plata Rivers <br />contained in an amended decree consistent with this Stipulation shall <br />become final; (2) the Tribe shall be entitled to the full water right as <br />described in. this Paragraph 7.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 />~ <br />, <br />t~ <br /> <br />b. If the Animas-La Plata Project facilities necessary to deliver the Tribe's <br />municipal and industrial water are not completed so as to enable the <br />delivery of water to the Tribe as described in this Paragraph 7.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 />final; 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 appropriative water rights claims on the Animas and La Plata <br />Rivers, then tbe Tribe shall relinquish and forfeit the water right from the <br />Animas-La Plata Project as described in this Paragraph 7.A.; provided, <br />bowever, 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 time thereafter to receive an allocation of water from Ridges <br />Basin Reservoir, then: (I) the Tribe shall be entitled to the full water right <br /> <br />10 <br />