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including the Navajo Unit. Section I of Public Law 87-483, the Act of June 13, 1962, authorized as panicipating projects of the CRSP the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project and the San Juan-Chama Project for the purposes of: "... furnishing water for the irrigation of Imgable and arable lands and for municipal, domestic, anu industrial uses, providing recreation and fish and wildlife benefits, and controlling silt, and for other beneficial purposes, ..." Public Law 87-483 limited the approval of the two projects to the scopes of the projects described in project planning and coordination reports dated 1957, as conditioned in the legislation. Section 8 of Public Law 87-483 specifically authorized the initial stage of the San Juna-Chama Project "... for the principal purposes offurnishing water supplies to... acres of land ... in tributary irrigation units in the Rio Grande Basin and ... in the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District and for municipal, domestic, and industrial uses, and providing recreation and fish and wildlife benefits." While Public Law 87-483 provides for "principal purposes" of irrigation, municipal, domestic and industrial water "uses," it does not provide for recreation and fish and wildlife water "uses," as opposed to incidental recreation and fish and wildlife "benefits." Congress has considered the language of Public Law 87-483 twice since its passage. The Chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United State Senate, in its consideration ofS. 614, a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make water available for a permanent pool for recreation purposes at Cochiti Reservoir from the San Juan-Chama Project, requested views of the Department of the Interior on the bill. The Secretary of the Interior replied by letter dated May 20, 1963, a portion of which reads: "Legislation is necessary to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide this water because the Act of June 13, 1962, authorizing the development of the initial stage of the San Juan-Chama Project did not authorize provision of water for purposes other than irrigation and municipal and industrial uses." Thus, Congressional authorization was deemed necessary to provide San Juan-Chama Project water solely for recreational, fish and wildlife uses. Public Law 88-293, the Act of March 26,1964, was needed to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make water available from the San Juan-Chama Project for use "... for conservation and development of fish and wildlife resources and for recreation ..." via filling and maintaining of a permanent pool in Cochiti Reservoir. Public Law 86-645, the Flood Control Act of 1960, already had provided for the allocation of storage capacity in Cochiti Reservoir and other reservoirs constructed by the Corps of Engineers as pan of the Middle Rio Grande Project to permanent pools for recreation and fish and wildlife propagation; provided, that the water to fill and maintain the pools be obtained from sources outside the Rio Grande Basin. Public Law 88-293 simply permits a portion of the San Juan-Chama Project yield to be used for a specific recreation and fish and wildlife use; it does not otherwise alter Public Law 87-483 or confer upon Navajo Dam and Reservoir a primary purpose of providing recreation and fish and wildlife uses. Similarly, Public Law 93-493, the Reclamation Development Act of I 974, at Section] 401 authorized the release from Heron Reservoir of San Juan-Charna Project water to establish and maintain for ten years a minimum recreation pool in Elephant Butte Reservoir. In Jicarilla Apache Tribe v. United States, et aI., the 10th Circuit Federal District Court in 1981 found that under the CRSP Act and the Act of .Tune 13, 1962, the principal uses of San Juan-Chama Project water are for irrigation, municipal, industrial and domestic purposes, and all other uses, 9 00752