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I I I I I t I I I I I I I I I I I I I 001317 8 to the terms of any agreement to which it is not a party. The signatories to the MOU and this Implementation Program disagree as to whether or not the Indian tribes have water rights which are limited by or subject to any agreement among the States to apportion the waters of the Colorado River Basin, including the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact. Nothing in the MOU, the Cooperative Agreement, or this Implementation Program shall be deemed to be a recognition or acceptance of any such claims by any party hereto or be deemed to establish or affect any such claims. This Implementation Program is intended to provide the means for conserving the endangered fish species in the Basin while water development proceeds consistent with applicable laws. The order in which water development occurs may not necessarily reflect the priority of the water rights. Therefore, the successful development of any water project in accordance with this Implementation Program does not create a water right for project beneficiaries or its contractors to the use of water greater or lesser than those to which the project beneficiaries or contractors would otherwise be entitled, nor shall such development of a project adversely affect the water rights of any other water users or water right holders in the Basin. 1.8 COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT The Secretary of the Interior, on behalf of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Regions 2 and 6), U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs; the Governors of Utah, Colorado and New Mexico; the Navajo Nation, and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe, and the Jicarilla Apache Indian Tribe have executed a Cooperative Agreement to carry out this Implementation Program. The Cooperative Agreement incorporates the terms, objectives, and undertakings of this Implementation Program and commits each party to its timely implementation. The Cooperative Agreement has been executed under the statutory authority of the Endangered Species Act and other appropriate state, federal, and tribal laws. All entities which have signed the Cooperative Agreement are referred to in this Implementation Program as the "Signatories." 1.9 RELATXONSHXP OF RECOVERY XMPLEMENTATXON PROGRAM TO SAN JUAN RXVER RESEARCH PLAN In accepting the reasonable and prudent alternatives provided in the October 25, 1991, Biological Opinion issued by Region 6 of the Service on the Animas-La Plata Project, the Bureau of Reclamation agreed to fund approximately 7 years of research on