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000416 . . Colorado River. That 1968 commitment also guaranteed fair treatment for both Upper Basin .Indian and non-Indian users of Colorado River waters. ~ PART THREE The Agreement in Principle accomplishes a final quantification of the Ute Indian Tribes' Winters Rights water claims. The national commitment to the Ute Indians emerges not only from national legislation designed to develop Colorado River waters, but also from a series of earlier federal laws -- the Treaty of October 7, 1863, the Treaty of March 2, 1868, and the Act of February 20, 1895. Each of these Congressional enactments was designed to protect and preserve a portion of the lands and waters of the Upper Colorado River Basin for a permanent homeland for the Ute Indian people. This one hundred year national commitment to provide a permanent homeland to the Ute Indians containing sufficient water resources has been mirrored by a more recent national commitment to the Tribes and to the non-Indian citizens of Colorado and New Mexico to develop the Upper Basin's share of Colorado River water. The Agreement in Principle quantifies and satisfies once and for all the Winters rights claims of the Tribes. Thus, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is to receive a total of 84,500 acre feet of water from the following sources: Dolores River through the Dolores Project; the Animas and La Plata Rivers through the Animas-La Plata Project; and direct flow water rights on the Mancos River, Navajo Wash and the San Juan River. Similarly, the Agreement in Principle provides for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe to obtain 41,126 acre feet from the following sources: Animas and La Plata Rivers through the Animas-La Plata Project; and direct flow water rights from numerous river sources flowing through non-Indian and Indian lands in Southwest Colorado including the Florida, Piedra, and San Juan Rivers. Once these sources of water are fully quantified in contracts for project water and in judicial proceedings, the Agreement in Principle provides for the extinguishment of all other historical claims by the Tribes under federal law and relating to the quantification of Tribal waters. Indeed, a principal motivating factor for the Agreement in Principle is the desire to quantify and resolve the Winters rights water claims of the Tribes through an amicable, efficient, and inexpensive settlement process rather than undertaking what Indian and non- Indians have seen elsewhere in the West -- namely, time consuming and prohibitively expensive quantification litigation. 7