which mandated that the Department of Natural Resources Conservation permit new claims and manage a record of water rights. And it established a system of adjudicating pre-1973 claims. This means that all new claims had to be filed with the Department of Natural Resources to Conservation. And it began to create a bureaucratic structure for looking at all claims filed prior existing, even if they were filed prior to 1973. In 79, the Senate Bill 76 established the Montana Water Court, which was set up initially on a 15 15 year term limit, although it's still around now 50 years later, and they're hoping to have all their work done. I believe the most recent estimate I saw was by 2028, but even that is, you know, questionable. And to establish the Water Court to adjudicate all priest 1973 claims. However, while this legislation was under consideration, both the US Department of the Interior and the tribes expressed opposition to having their water rights adjudicated by a state court because they argued that these water rights, the both the federal water rights pertaining to federal lands, whether the national parks or Bureau of Land Management lands, and also the native water rights, which were held and trust by the US government, say that they argue that they were not subject to state courts. And many in Montana's agricultural community also opposed the use of water courts to determine native rights because ranchers and others, both on the reservation