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<br />, '000480 <br /> <br />-8- <br /> <br />7. This administrative agreement governs the Winters reserved water <br />rights of the Tribes, but all other waters appropriated by the Tribes under <br />state laws will be governed by state law. <br /> <br />VI. Up-Front Financing/Cost-Sharing Commitments <br />1. Historical <br />In order to provide background for the genesis of the Animas-LaPlata <br />Project and its interrelationship with the development of the water resources <br />of the Colorado River System a section on Historical Perspective is included <br />in the Agreement in Principle. In this section a number of pertinent documents <br />are briefly mentioned. Among them are: <br />i. Boulder Canyon Project Act which authorized the All-American <br />Canal and Hoover Dam. <br />ii. Mexican Water Treaty which gave 1,500,000 acre-ft of water per <br />year to Mexico. <br />iiL Basin-wide comprehensive planning report, "The Colorado River" <br />which showed the inadequate supply of water in the Colorado River and forced <br />the states to determine their respective rights to use the water. <br />iv. The Arizona v. California lawsuits. <br />v. The Upper Colorado River Ba sin Compact which apportioned Upper <br />Ba sin water among the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and <br />Wyoming. <br />vi. The Colorado River Storage Project Act which created the Upper <br />Colorado River Basin Fund to aid in pay ing those costs of irrigation projects <br />beyond the ability of the water users to pay thus making those projects financially <br />feasible and made the costs of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project nonreimbursable <br />as a national obligation. <br />vii. The Colorado River Ba sin Project Act which authorized the Animas- <br />La Plata Project in Colorado and New Mexico as a participating project under <br />the Colorado River Storage Project Act and included the Animas-LaPlata Project <br />Compact between New Mexico and Colorado. <br /> <br />,- <br />