Tribal water compact approved

DECEMBER 8, 2000

The Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved a water rights compact with the tribes on the Fort Belknap Reservation.

The compact addresses the tribes' water rights on the Milk River. The council still has to approve it, then the state Legislature. Congress would also have to ratify it.

State officials had anticipated a complex agreement.

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