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Indian projects and irrigated areas are placed in one of several categories by the Secretary based upon several criteria for maintenance assessment rates to be paid by the appropriate user. The first treaties initiated on behalf of the Federal Government with Indian tribes were based on a government to government basis. In passing PL 93-638, the Congress declared its commitment to the maintenance of the Federal Government's unique and continuing relationship concerning its responsibilities to Indian tribes and to the Pueblo de Acoma for projects on the reservation. The Pueblo de Acoma Tribal Council strongly recommends that the 1984 NCAI 41st Annual Convention reject any proposal on the part of the BIA Task Force to actively pursue the collection assessments due for all Pueblos and other tribal irrigatable acres annually.