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Shoshone-Bannock tribes end objections to water settlement

09:08 AM MST on Monday, October 31, 2005

Associated Press

LEWISTON -- The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes are ending their legal objections to a massive water rights settlement between the state of Idaho and the Nez Perce Tribe.

The southern Idaho tribes reached an agreement with the state last week.

The agreement says the tribes will be consulted if minimum stream flow standards are altered.

And they'll be included in discussions about fish habitat restoration projects.

The tribe was not a party to the agreement between the Nez Perce, Idaho and the federal government that resolves the Nez Perce claims to water rights in the Snake River basin.

But they had challenged the agreement because they said it concerned projects on their territory.