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The Nez Perce Water Rights Settlement 

On May 15, 2004, Governor Dirk Kempthorne and Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee Chairman Anthony Johnson announced an agreement to settle the Nez Perce water rights claims in the Snake River Basin.

 

Press Release

The following documents are available for download in Adobe PDF format*.
 
fact sheet        170 KB pdf
summary of the agreement       421 KB pdf

 the full text of the agreement

   4,743 KB pdf
IWRB Resolution approving the "Term Sheet"         85 KB pdf
IWRB Resolution (changes to original)           6 KB pdf
Attachment 1 - "A" List Stream Flows         28 KB pdf
Attachment 2 - "B" List Stream Flows           6 KB pdf

Director's Report for IWRB Minimum Stream Flows

947 KB pdf

US on behalf of NPT-On Reservation Multiple Use Water Right Claims

Please note the final "A" and "B" list streams differ from the term sheet.  
See Attachments 1 and 2 to the IWRB Resolution for the final lists.

Download the GIS data-sets used in the Settlement.

Map Representations of the Salmon/Clearwater instream flows
Definition of Exceedence Flows

The Snake River at Swan Falls
The Snake River at Swan Falls.
   

 
 

*In order to read the documents, it is necessary to use Adobe Reader software. If you do not have Adobe Reader installed on your computer, you can download Reader for free by clicking on the yellow box below and following the directions.

 

last modification: May 20, 2005
 

 
   
 

"The Shoshone Falls on the Snake River" by Thomas Moran (1900) used courtesy of the Gilcrease Museum