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et al vs. Sta~, et4lj - Civil Action File N1it74-3181. The prin- cipal issues addressed were bypasses at the San Juan-Chama Project diversion works for t~e preservation of ~ish and aguatic life and decreed water rights, and the sluicing of: silt accumulations from the project diversion works. By letter to Senator Church dated July 11, 1974 and by.the July 8, 1974 resolution of the Jicarilla Apache Tribal Council that accompanied that letter, the President of the ~icarilla Tribe '. J addressed the same two issues addressed in the complaint in Schutz vs Stamm and further, claimed rights under the l~inters Doctrine to . . the waters being diverted from Navajo River by the San Juan-Cha~a Project. The letter and resolution also expressed the Tribe's opposition to the temporary use of water for a minimum recreation pool at Elephant Butte Reservoir or for uses such as coal gasifica- tion plants. On March 17, 1975 the Jicarilla Tribe filed a Motion to Intervene and Complaint in Intervention in Schutz vs Stamm joining in the original plaintiffs complaint against the operation of the San Juan-Chama Project and alleging impairment of water rights in the Navajo River claimed by the Tribe. The State of New Mexico had already on March 13, 1975 filed a suit in State District Court seek- ing an adjudication of all water rights, including federal claims, in the San Juan River s~stem in New Mexico pursuant to Section 75-4-4 NMSA 1953. In 1948 all of the then existing nonfederal rights, not none of the federal rights, were adjudicated in a State District Court decree. By letter dated November 12, 1974 Senator Henry M. Jackson, Chairman of the Senate Interior & Insular Affairs Committee, asked the Secretary of the Interior to review the operations of the San -5-