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<br />C G ~. <br />oJ_ <br /> <br />12 <br /> <br />;::w- <br />: ) <br /> <br />1980, pp. 8, 30-33) .20 The Tribes and State agreed to go <br />through each of the factors enumerated in the Ten Year Plan, <br />and identify the factors (such as climate) that could be agreed <br />upon and those (such as practicably irrigable acreage) <br />requiring technical study (Tr. Dec. 12, 1980, pp. 66-69). A <br />highly capable engineering firm with experience in Indian and <br />other water cases, Stetson Engineers, was retained by the <br />United States to assist the Tribes. At the negotiating session <br />in Poplar on September 24, 1981, Mr. Stetson outlined the <br />technical studies his firm would make "over the next few <br />months." <br /> <br />"[W]e are also going over those Soil <br />Conservation Service and BIA data for the <br />four counties. <br /> <br />"We have obtained the aerial photos on <br />which they map that; we've made copies of <br />those, and we are now interpreting those, <br />and we will be p1animetering from those the <br />irrigable acreage. <br /> <br />"We will also be looking at the surface <br />water hydrology. We are compiling the data <br />on the surface water measurements that are <br />available, and we will be looking into the <br />ground water from the point of view of <br /> <br />20Chairman Loble stated, <br /> <br />"[W]e have suggested to some of the <br />other tribes that preparation for <br />npgotiations might possibly follow the <br />ten-year plan of the President's Water <br />Policy committee,.... <br /> <br />; <br />. ! <br /> <br />I was struck when I read the report <br />of the Water Policy Committee on Indian <br />reserved rights with the way it was laid <br />out and the manner in which you go about <br />trying to make a determination of what <br />those rights might be and the investi- <br />gation and analysis necessary to provide <br />a basis upon which you would proceed to <br />finally negotiate your rights, and I <br />think it's applicable here. It may be <br />expensive to get all those facts together, <br />but there's some indication in there that <br />federal help might be obtained." (Tr. <br />Dec. 12, 1980, p. 8.) <br />