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4121 vater from the three streams floving through the reservation. The Southern Ute Indian Tribe vill receive the right to benefi- cially use 29.900 acre-feet of vater from the Animas-La Plata Project and over 10,000 acre-feet of vater from various other vater sources serving the reservation. Soth Tribes will receive underground vater for individual domestic and livestock uses and ,vill have their current vater uses protected. The vater rights secured to the Tribe by the Agreement are called "project reserved vaters" or "non-project reserved vaters," vith the exception of vater from the Pine River and a state water right decreed to the Southern Ute Tribe from the existing Florida Water Conservancy Project (these rights are taken as nonreserved vater rights or are taken pursuant to ear- lier decrees). All project and nonproject reserved vater rights are subject to the provisions of the Agreement concerning aemin- istration (article IV), leasing and off-reservation use (article V), finality (article VI), and general provisions (article VII). The Agreement identifies specific places of use, times of use, types of use and, to varying degrees, consumptive uses. Stream quantifications vere done in a manner which gave the Tribes su~lus vaters, or vaters not yet decreed to or used ~y existing state appropriators. Dispute concerning the use of these vaters will be presented to the Colorado District Court ,-- Water Division No.7. .,; The construction of the Animas-La Plata Project anc t~e completion of the irrigation facilities of the Dolores Project are keystones to the water rights settlement because vi:hou: :~:s additional storage and supply, there is insufficient Vater :0 meet the future needs of the Tribes and the current cemancs of the non-Indian communities. Non-Indian user ~coula:ions i~ Southwest Colorado and northvest New Mexico receivinc benefits from the Animas-La Plata Project have committed to help fi~ance ... th~ p:-.oject. .On June 30, 1986. their cose-share cOlllllli::nen:s -.;ere found by the Secretary of the Interior to meet the c=s:-s~are requirements set out by Congress in Section IV of ?~bl~: ~C. 99-88. A:~icle IV - A~inis~:a:ion The ar't'iele governs all projec't anc nonpro:ec: reser"/ee vater rights used within the bouncaries of t~e rese~va:::~. Off-reservation use of the waters is governec by Artie:e V :f :~e -2-