It’s coming down to the wire for the seven Colorado River states to comply with a federal deadline to submit a plan for how to divvy up the river over the next 20 years.

The contentious, closed-door process has been drawn out over multiple years as the outlook for levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell continue to nosedive. But the states seem poised to miss Tuesday’s deadline from the Trump administration’s Interior Department, ushering in a more possible scenario in which the feds could intervene and progress could be delayed by a lengthy court battle.

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