ELR Citation: ELR 20236
No(s). s. 04-16032, -16033 (9th Cir. Nov 21, 2005)

The court holds that although a Native American tribe may change the use of their water rights established under a 1944 federal court decree from irrigation use to instream use, it may not apply the transportation loss portion of those rights to the new use. The decree provides that the amount alloc...