WSPC07020

• File Number: 8064
• Description: Federal Water Rights - Colorado Indian Negotiations
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 9/16/1988
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Report With Additional Dissenting-Supplemental Views - H R 2642
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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ing which was executed in coml'liance with the cost sharing requirements of
chapter IV of Public Law 99-88 (99 Stst; 293), and the December 10, 1986, Colo-
rado Ute Indian Water Rights Final 'Settlement Agreement.
(4) The Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe,
by reso,lution of their respective tribal councils, which are the duly recofPlized
governing bodies of each Tribe, have approved the December 10, 1986, Agree-
ment and sought Federal implementation of its terms.
(5) This Act is required to implement portions of the above two agreements.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes fo this Act"-
(1) The term "Agreement" means the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights
Final Settlement Agreement dated December 10, 1986, among the State of Colo-
rado, the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, the
United States, and other partiCipating parties.
(2) The term "Animas-La Plata Project"means the Animas-La Plata Project,
Colorado and New Mexico, a participating project under the Act of April 11,
1956 (70 Stat. 105; 43 U.S.C. 620; commonly referred to as the "Colorado River
Storage Project Act") and the Colorado River Basin Project Act (82 Stat. 885; 43
U.s.C. 1501 et seq.). '
(3) The term "Dolores Project" means the Dolores Project, Colorado, a partici.
pating project under the Act of April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 105; 43 U.S.a. 620; com-
monly referred to as the "Colorado River Storage Project Act"), the Colorado
River Basin Project Act (82 Stat. 885; 43 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.), and as further au-
thorized by the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act (98 Stat. 2933; 43
U.S.C. 1591).
(4) The term "fmal consent decree" means the consent decree contemplated to
be entered after the date of enactment of this Act in the District Court, Water
Division No.7, State of Colorado, which will implement certain provisions of
the Aio'eement.
(5) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior.
(6) The term "Tribe" and "Tribes" mean the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe,
the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, or both Tribes, as the context may require.
(7) The term "water year" means a year commencing on October 1 each year
and running through the following September 30.
SEC. 4. TRrnAL RESERVED WATERS.
(a) WATER FROM ANIMAS-LA PLATA AND DoLORES, PROJECTS.-The Secretary is
hereby authorized to use the Animas-La Plata and Dolores Projects to supply re-
served water to the Tribes in accordance with the Agreement.
(b) APPLICATION OF FunERAL RECLAMATION LAws.-The reserved water supplied to
the Tribes or their lessees from the Dolores and Animas-La Plata Projects shall be
treated in all respects in the same manner, except as provided in the Agreement, as
the Tribes' other reserved waters.
SEC. 6. NONAPPLICABILITY OF THE INDIAN INTERCOURSE ACT.
The provisions of section 2116 of the Revised Statutes (25 D.S.C. 177) shall not
apply to any water rights confIrmed in the Agreement and the fmal consent decree,
Nothing in this section shall be considered to amend, construe, supersede or pre-
empt any State law, Federal law, interstate compact, or international treaty that
pertains to the Colorado River or its tributaries, including the appropriation, use,
development, storage, regulation, allocation, conservation, exportation, or quality of
those waters.
SEe. 6. REPAYMENT OF PROJECT COSTS.
(A) MUNICIPAL AND INDUSTRIAL WATER.-(1) The Secretary shall defer without in-
terest, the repayment of the construction costs allocable to each Tribe1s municipal
and industrial water allocation from the Animas-La Plata and Dolores Projects until
water is first used either by the Tribe or pursuant to a water use contract with the
Tribe. Until such water is first used either by a Tribe or pursuant to a water use
contract with the Tribe, the Secretary shall bear the annual operation, mainte-
nance, and replacement costs allocable to the Tribe's municipal and industrial
water allocation from the Animas-La Plata and Dolores Projects, which costs shall
not be reimbursable by the Tribe.
(2) As an increment of such water is first used by a Tribe or is first used pursuant
to the terms of a water use contract with the Tribe, repayment of that increment's
pro rata share of such allocable construction costs shall commence by the Tribe and
the Tribe shall commence bearing that increment's pro rata share of the allocable
annual operation, maintenance, and replacement costs.

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