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TEN TRIBES PARTNERSHIP stabilization and the delivery of additional waters to the Colorado River Reservation. The next significant involvement by the United States in the Indian waters of the Colorado River occurred in the 1963 proceedings of Arizona vs. California. This litigation was prompted by Arizona's need for a determination of its share of water from the Colorado River in order to obtain federal appropriations for the Central Arizona Project. Numerous issues arose among the southwestern states, the tribes and the federal government concerning the allocation of Colorado River water. The United States intervened to assert, among other things, the reserved water rights of the five Indian reservations on the lower reaches of the mainstream of the Colorado River: the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, the Colorado River Indian Tribes, the Quechan Indian Tribe of the Fort Yuma Reservation and the Cocopah Indian Community. In Arizona vs. California, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the Secretary of the Interior had a statutory duty to respect the "present perfected rights" as of the date the Boulder Canyon Project Act was passed and that the water rights of the five Indian reservations were included in those "present perfected rights" entitled to priority. In addition, Arizona vs. California established the standard for quantifying those reserved water rights to which a tribe is entitled for agricultural purposes. In addition to confirming substantial water rights for the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, the Colorado River Indian Tribes, the Quechan Indian Tribe and the Cocopah Indian Community, the court's decision brought into sharp focus the importance of tribal reserved water rights in the West. The United States in recent years has begun the process of securing reserved water rights for the other five tribes in the Colorado River Basin. Each of these actions has been designed to quantify Colorado River water rights and to provide the tribes with economic R resources so as to permit development of their reservations, including development of their water resources. For example, in 1962 Congress authorized the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project (NIIP) and, at the same time, the San Juan-Chama Project. The Navajo Nation is still in the process of quantifying the remainder of its water rights that were not part of NIIP. In 1988, Congress enacted the Colorado Ute Settlement Act, which quantified all of the water rights of the Souther Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe. Some of those water rights are in direct stream flow and others in storage projects such as the Pine River Project and the Dolores Project. For example, under the Dolores Project, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is developing 22,500 acre-feet for the irrigation of agriculture - probably the last significant a _ - , irrigated agricultural project to be developed in the upper basin, except for continuing development at NIIP. A critical component of the Colorado Ute Indian settlement is the construction of the Animas-La Plata project to, among other things, provide water supplies for both tribes for irrigation and municipal and industrial purposes. Under the settlement, each tribe received a development fund to assist in reviving their impoverished economies. In 1992, Congress enacted the Jicarilla Apache Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act. This settlement, like the Colorado Ute Indian settlement, but unlike the authorization for NIIP, represents a full and final settlement of the future use water rights claims of the Jicarilla Apache Tribe to the waters of the Colorado River. Under the Jicarilla Apache settlement, the secretary of the interior is to make available to the tribe up to a 32,000 acre-foot depletion from the Navajo Reservoir, Navajo River and San Juan-Chama Project. This water, like waters secured to the Colorado Ute Indians, may be used for a variety of purposes including leasing of water that is otherwise compatible with applicable law. The Jicarilla Apache Tribe was provided with a development fund in recognition of historic claims against the United States and others for use in strengthening its reservation economy. That fund will not be activated, however, until the tribe completes settlements of its historical and existing reserved rights claims in the Rio Chama and San Juan basins with the United States and the state of New Mexico. The 1992 Ute Indian settlement provided the Northern Ute Tribe with a substantial development fund to compensate for the failure of the federal government to complete Central Utah Project storage facilities for the Northern Ute Tribe. The act provides substantial economic benefits to the tribe in an effort to place it on the same footing that it would have enjoyed had there been construction of the facilities contemplated in the 1985 deferred agreement which permitted construction of the Strawberry collection system of the Bonneville unit. The act also provides Congress' consent to the 1990 Ute Water Compact, which quantifies the tribe's reserved water right. The act recognizes that the compact also must be approved by the tribe and the state of Utah, neither of which has done so. These actions carry forward the United States' trustee DEDICATION OF PARKER DAM ATTRACTED 100-YEAR-OLD-PLUS HE-RE-IN-YE NUBECK AND HIS WIFE, OACH, OF THE COLORADO RIVER RESERVATION, HERE JOINING GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVE.