the CSKT, a significant amount of bargaining power because municipalities and non-Indian reservations on the flat-hand reservation couldn't apply to the state for new or amended beneficial use permits so long as the tribe's reserved rights remained unquantified. And the potential negative impact of the state on the state of having to litigate each of the claims separately, each of the travel claims separately was ramified. It's also important to note because that non-Indian permit holders were frightened of not receiving sufficient water for their own use years or losing their water rights altogether because of the possibility of the tribes having reserved claims. And this generated political panic among non-Indian municipal and county politicians and amongst other irrigators in the region. In 1982, the tribes and coordination, or anticipation and negotiations with the compact mission, collaborated with the US theological survey on an extensive drainage by drainage measurement program of groundwater, surface water, stream flow, river flow, minimum fill levels of different bodies of water. And so by the time the negotiation started in 2000