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Show CHAPTER X 181 fendants, and Nevada, to enter a supplemental decree (filed May 30, 1978) is granted, and entered the Supplemental Decree which was the subject of Article VI of the 1964 Decree and of the negotiations and arguments since that time. The Court appointed Judge Elbert P. Tuttle as Special Master with authority to fix the time and conditions for the filing of additional pleadings and to direct subsequent proceedings. The Court denied the motion of the Fort Mohave Indian Tribe et al., for leave to intervene to oppose entry of the Supplemental Decree and referred this motion in all other respects and the motion of the Colorado River Indian Tribes et al., to the Special Master. A copy of the Opinion and Supplemental Decree appears in Appendix 1005. U. New Phase of Decreed Rights Even before the Supreme Court had resolved the Article VI PPRs by its Opinion of January 9, 1979, the United States, on December 21, 1978, filed a Motion for Modification of the Decree (of March 9, 1964) and Supporting Memorandum. The motion sought to permit additional diversions of mainstream water for the five Reservations. The reasons therefor were: (1) The boundaries of the Reservations ".. .have been finally determined...." (2) The boundary adjustments, effected since the Decree of March 9, 1964, have confirmed additionally practicably irrigable lands for which the United States reserved water rights, as follows: Fort Mohave Reservation 3,000 acres in California Chemehuevi Reservation 150 acres in California Colorado River Reservation 3,110 acres in California Fort Yuma Reservation 4,200 acres in California 1,300 acres in Arizona Cocopah Reservation 1,112 acres in Arizona (3) There are within the boundaries of the Reservations practicably irrigable lands which, in approximate numbers, were erroneously omitted from consideration and are entitled to reserved water rights: Fort Mohave Reservation 100 acres in California 1,000 acres in Arizona 150 acres in Nevada Chemehuevi Reservation 500 acres in California Colorado River Reservation 2,000 acres in California Fort Yuma Reservation 500 acres in California Cocopah Reservation 33 acres in Arizona (4) The Reservations are entitled, with the priority dates recited in Article II of the March 9, 1964, Decree, to additional annual diversions for: Fort Mohave Reservation 20,026 acre-feet in California 6,460 acre-feet in Arizona 969 acre-feet in Nevada Chemehuevi Reservation 3,880 acre-feet in California Colorado River Reservation 30,854 acre-feet in California 89,940 acre-feet in Arizona Fort Yuma Reservation 31,352 acre-feet in California 8,668 acre-feet in Arizona Cocopah Reservation 7,294 acre-feet in Arizona |
