The legislature finds and declares that the state laws and procedures for the adjudication of rights to the use of water need to be modified:
(1)  to provide a statutory procedure for incorporating a negotiated agreement between a federal reserved water right claimant and the state of Idaho into an adjudication;

Terms Used In Idaho Code 42-1401

  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
(2)  to provide a more efficient method for adjudications;
(3)  to assure that state laws and procedures provide a fair and impartial forum for the adjudication of the rights of all claimants; and
(4)  to assure that state laws and procedures are adequate as a matter of federal law to adjudicate all water rights claimed to have been established under federal law and to administer such rights.