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<br />001551 <br /> <br />1: <br /> <br />of Tribes on and off the mainstream River as well as other fede~al <br />interests. In the decision of Special Master Rifkin reaffirmed by <br />the United States Supreme Court in 1963, substantial water rights <br />for the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe" the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, <br />Colorado River Indian Tribes, the Quechan Indian Tribe of the Fort <br />Yuma Reservation and the Cocopah Indian community were recognized. <br />At the same time, the Supreme Court in the decision in Arizona v. <br />California confirmed that these Indian waters a,s well as all waters <br />subject to the storage facilities of the Colorado River were to be <br />managed by the United States pursuant to the authority of the <br />Boulder Canyon Project Act, 45 stat. 1057. <br /> <br />It <br /> <br />\' <br /> <br />The United States in recent years has begun the process of <br />securing reserved water rights for the other Five Tribes in. the <br />Colorado River. Each of these actions has been designed to <br />quantify Colorado River water rights and to provide the Tribes with <br />economic resources so as to permit development of their <br />Reservations, including development of their water resources. <br />Thus, in 1962 Congress authorized the Navajo Irrigation Project and <br />at the same time the San Juan-Chama Project. The former was to <br />develop a portion of the Indian water rights in the Colorado water <br />system for the Navajo Nation and the latter was to provide new <br />water supplies for the growing city of Albuquerque located in the <br />Rio Grande Basin. When the State of New Mexico sought to divert <br />water from the San Juan River across the Continental Divide into <br />the Rio Grande for the primary benefit of the City of Albuquerque, <br /> <br />25 <br />