ABEYTA WATER RIGHTS ADJUDICATION: SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AMONG THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TAOS PUEBLO, THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO, THE TAOS VALLEY ACEQUIA ASSOCIATION AND ITS 55 MEMBER ACEQUIAS, THE TOWN OF TAOS, EL PRADO WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT, AND THE 12 TAOS AREA MUTUAL DOMESTIC WATER CONSUMERS’ ASSOCIATIONS Dated December 12, 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. PARTIES TO THIS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. .................................................................. 1 1.1. EPWSD ..............................................................................................................................1 1.2. Acequias ............................................................................................................................1 1.3. MDWCAs ...........................................................................................................................1 1.4. State ..................................................................................................................................1 1.5. Pueblo ...............................................................................................................................2 1.6. TVAA .................................................................................................................................2 1.7. Town .................................................................................................................................2 1.8. United States .....................................................................................................................2 2. DEFINITIONS. ................................................................................................................. 2 2.1. AFY ....................................................................................................................................2 2.2. Aboriginal Priority Date ......................................................................................................2 2.3. Acequia .............................................................................................................................2 2.4. Adjudication ......................................................................................................................2 2.5. Arroyo Seco Abajo .............................................................................................................3 2.6. Arroyo Seco Arriba .............................................................................................................3 2.7. Attachment .......................................................................................................................3 2.8. Buffalo Pasture ..................................................................................................................3 2.9. Buffalo Pasture Depletions .................................................................................................3 2.10. Buffalo Pasture Recharge Project .......................................................................................3 2.11. CIR.....................................................................................................................................3 2.12. El Prado .............................................................................................................................4 2.13. Enforcement Date ..............................................................................................................4 2.14. FDR ...................................................................................................................................4 2.15. Forbear, Forbearance .........................................................................................................4 2.16. Future Groundwater Diversions .........................................................................................4 2.17. GPM ..................................................................................................................................4 2.18. HIA Right ...........................................................................................................................4 2.19. Historically Irrigated Acreage .............................................................................................5 2.20. Impair, Impairment ............................................................................................................5 2.21. Lawful Irrigation or Stock Uses ...........................................................................................5 2.22. Market, Marketing, Marketing Agreement .........................................................................5 2.23. Mutual-Benefit Projects .....................................................................................................5 2.24. Mutual-Benefit Projects Parties ..........................................................................................5 2.25. Parciante ...........................................................................................................................5 2.26. Partial Final Decree ............................................................................................................6 2.27. Party, Parties .....................................................................................................................6 i 2.28. Pre-Basin Groundwater Right .............................................................................................6 2.29. PDR ...................................................................................................................................6 2.30. Pueblo Lands .....................................................................................................................6 2.31. San Juan-Chama Project .....................................................................................................6 2.32. Secretary ...........................................................................................................................6 2.33. Settlement Act ...................................................................................................................7 2.34. Settlement Model ..............................................................................................................7 2.35. State Engineer ...................................................................................................................7 2.36. Stream Segment, Stream Segments ....................................................................................7 2.37. Subfile Order .....................................................................................................................9 2.38. Taos Pueblo Water Use Survey ...........................................................................................9 2.39. Taos Valley ........................................................................................................................9 2.40. Taos Valley Stream System .................................................................................................9 2.41. Taos Valley Tributaries .......................................................................................................9 2.42. Temporary Storage for Irrigation Use................................................................................ 10 2.43. Tributary Depletions ........................................................................................................ 10 2.44. Water Rights Owning Parties ............................................................................................ 10 3. MUTUAL BENEFITS AND CONSIDERATION. .................................................................... 10 3.1. IN GENERAL. .................................................................................................................... 10 3.2. BUFFALO PASTURE PROTECTIONS. ................................................................................... 10 3.3. SAN JUAN-CHAMA PROJECT WATER. ................................................................................ 11 3.4. RIO GRANDE SEGMENT DEPLETIONS................................................................................. 11 3.5. MITIGATION WELL SYSTEM. ............................................................................................. 11 3.6. ARROYO SECO ARRIBA PROJECT. ...................................................................................... 12 3.7. WAIVER OF OBJECTIONS TO PARTIAL FINAL DECREE. ........................................................ 12 3.8. WAIVER OF INTER SE CHALLENGES. .................................................................................. 12 3.9. WAIVER OF CHALLENGES TO DOMESTIC WELLS. ................................................................ 12 3.10. WAIVER OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROTESTS. ......................................................................... 12 4. ENFORCEABILITY; PARTIES BOUND. .............................................................................. 13 4.1. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT. ................................................................................................ 13 4.2. PROCEDURE FOR ENTRY OF PARTIAL FINAL DECREE. ......................................................... 13 4.3. ENFORCEABILITY OF SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. ............................................................... 13 4.4. EXPIRATION DATE. ........................................................................................................... 14 5. TAOS PUEBLO