BOARD01962

• Board Meeting Date: 3/22/2005
• Description: WSP Section - Navajo Nation Federal Reserved Water Right Settlement with the State of New Mexico
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Navajo Nation to the use of water in the Basin acquired pursuant to New Mexico state

law;

(3) a Settlement Act for Congress to authorize the construction and operation of the Navajo-

Gallup Water Supply Project, to fund construction and rehabilitation of Navajo water

projects in the San Juan River Basin in New Mexico, and to approve the Settlement

Agreement and other authorizations to secure to the Navajo Nation a water supply to

meet the needs of the Nation and its members; and

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Reclamation water projects, namely the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project, the Navajo-

Gallup Water Supply Project, and the Animas-La Plata Project.

The Settlement Agreement must be approved and executed by the Navajo Nation and the State of New

. Mexico, and requires further the approval of the. United States Congress. The Settlement Agreement

will become effective only after the Settlement Act becomes law and the Secretary of the Interior

executes the Agreement.

The following tabulation is a summary of the rights that the Navajo Nation would have under the

Settlement Agreement. The stated diversion rates are maximum instantaneous flow rates.

Diversion
Amount Rate
i!!iZID ( cfs)

Depletion Administration
i!!iZID Priority

Irrigation Projects:
Navajo lndian Irrigation Project
Fruitland-Cambridge Irrigation Project
Hogback-Cudei Irrigation Project
Tributary irrigation projects, including storage

508,000 1,800 270,000
18,180 100 7,970
48,550. 221 21,280
Determine by Hydrosurvey 2

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1868
1868
1868

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