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" APPEND~ft~. NEWLANJ)S PROJECT CHRONOLOGY SINCE 1944 1944 - Orr Ditch Decree on Truckee River is finalized 1948 - TCID, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Nevada Department of Wildlife sign tri-party agreement to designate 160,000 acres in Stillwater Wildlife Management Area 1967 - Congress passes first Endangered Species Act, listing Pyramid Lake's cui-ui sucker fish U.S. passes first Operating Criteria and Procedures, disallowing the use of Lahontan Reservoir water for winter hydropower generation 1968 - TCID leases power franchise to sierra Pacific for 30 years 1973 - Washington, D.C., court makes decision on OCAP, resulting in an almost 100,000 acre-foot reduction of water to the project - Pyramid Paiutes file with U,S. to re-open Orr Ditch Decree to obtain Truckee River water in winter using a priority date of 1859, the year the reservation was formed 1974 - U.s. agrees to do Environmental Impact Statement on 1972 OCAP, but the document is never completed 1976 - $8 million settlement between the Pyramid Tribe and U.S. is signed for loss of water 1970's - Late this decade, TCID signs an agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation, Nevada Department of Wildlife and the Fleischmann Foundation to set aside an 8,000 acre wildlife refuge 1980 - Alpine Decree adjudicating the Carson River is completed with agreement that water-right transfers are to go through state engineer 1983 - Water rights are owned beneficially by the water users on the project and the U.S. cannot move water around like bushels of wheat according to court decision - Alpine Decree runs its course with appeals - Court decides Orr Ditch Decree (Truckee River) cannot be re-opened 1984 - First hearings on water-righted transfers are held, the Pyramid Tribe protested the transfers and the U.S. intervened saying it would review the water rights to make sure they are accurate but would not protest - Any water rights that are not on water-righted land can bE!, transferred by filing with the state engineer's office . - New temporary OCAP is in place - Diversions are temporarily stopped at Derby Dam 1985 - Derby Dam is back in use - BenCh/Bottom action to reduce water duties by 12,000 acre-feet begins, court decides to hold allocations - OCAP matters will now be heard in federal court in Reno instead of WaShington, D.C. 1986 - BOR agrees with TICD's water-right records - Drought begins 1987 - Lahontan Reservoir is reduced to two-thirds capacity 1988 - New and current OCAP is formed - Water released from Stampede Reservoir 1990 - Public Law 101-618 passes, settlings moratorium on court review of OCAP until 1998 - Repayment of Stampede credit water 1992 - TCID and the USFWS sign an operating and management agreement for water delivery to Stillwater wetlands 1993 - Pyramid Tribe files lawsuits against about 2,000 Newlands Project water users for abandonment and forfeiture of water rights - For the first time, OCAP efficiencies must be met due to a full water year - Repayment of Stampede credit water - Maximum Allowable Diversion kicks in and changes in the fall - U.S. decides irrigation canals on farm lands are not entitled to part of a farmer's water allocation, contrary to the state engineer and the federal water master - u.s. declares the state-approved water-right transfers invalid - Above normal precipitation year 1994 - Implementation of 1993 deficit repayment - U.S. asks TCID to again repay Stampede water - Below normal precipitation year 370