(C) the Secretary determines that the uses 
in the State of Arizona are within the appor-
tionment of the water of the Colorado River 
made to the State of Arizona through compact, 
statute, or court decree; 
(D) Congress has approved a Navajo Res-
ervoir supply contract between the Nation and 
the United States to provide for the delivery of 
Project water for the uses in Arizona; 
(E) the Navajo Nation and the State of 
Arizona have entered into an agreement pro-
viding for delivery of water of the Project for 
uses in Arizona; and 
(F) any other determination is made as 
may be required by the Compact. 
(2) ACCOUNTING OF USES IN ARIZONA.—Any 
depletion of water from the San Juan River stream 
system in the State of New Mexico that results from 
the diversion of water by the Project for uses within 
the State of Arizona (including depletion incidental 
to the diversion, impounding, or conveyance of water 
in the State of New Mexico for uses in the State of 
Arizona)— 
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(A) shall be accounted for as a part of the 
Colorado River System apportionments to the 
State of Arizona; and 
(B) shall not increase the total quantity of 
water to which the State of Arizona is entitled 
to use under any compact, statute, or court de-
cree. 
(e) FORBEARANCE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraphs (2) 
and (3), during any year in which a shortage to the 
normal diversion requirement for any use relating to 
the Project within the State of Arizona occurs (as 
determined under section 11 of Public Law 87–483 
(76 Stat. 99)), the Nation may temporarily forbear 
the delivery of the water supply of the Navajo Res-
ervoir for uses in the State of New Mexico under the 
apportionments of water to the Navajo Indian Irri-
gation Project and the normal diversion require-
ments of the Project to allow an equivalent quantity 
of water to be delivered from the Navajo Reservoir 
water supply for municipal and domestic uses of the 
Nation in the State of Arizona under the Project. 
(2) LIMITATION OF FORBEARANCE.—The Na-
tion may forebear the delivery of water under para-
graph (1) of a quantity not exceeding the quantity 
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of the shortage to the normal diversion requirement 
for any use relating to the Project within the State 
of Arizona. 
(3) EFFECT.—The forbearance of the delivery 
of water under paragraph (1) shall be subject to the 
requirements relating to accounting and water quan-
tity described in subsection (d)(2). 
(f) EFFECT.—Nothing in this Act— 
(1) authorizes the marketing, leasing, or trans-
fer of the water supplies made available to the Na-
tion under the Contract to non-Navajo water users 
in States other than the State of New Mexico; or 
(2) authorizes the forbearance of water uses in 
the State of New Mexico to allow uses of water in 
other States other than as authorized under sub-
section (e). 
(g) CONSISTENCY WITH UPPER COLORADO RIVER 
BASIN COMPACT.—In accordance with the Resolution and 
notwithstanding any other provision of law— 
(1) water may be diverted by the Project from 
the San Juan River in the State of New Mexico for 
use in the Lower Colorado River Basin in the State 
of New Mexico; and 
(2) water diverted under paragraph (1) shall be 
a part of the consumptive use apportionment made 
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