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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · S. 434 (Introduced in Senate) — To authorize and implement the water rights compact among the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and... · Sec. 21

Sec. 21. Miscellaneous provisions

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Except as provided in subsections
(a)through
(c)of section 208 of the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1953 (43 U.S.C. 666), nothing in this Act waives the sovereign immunity of the United States. Nothing in this Act quantifies or diminishes any land or water right, or any claim or entitlement to land or water, of an Indian tribe, band, or community other than the Tribe. With respect to Indian-owned land located within the Reservation— the United States shall not submit against such land any claim for reimbursement of the cost to the United States of carrying out this Act or the Compact; and no assessment of such land shall be made regarding that cost. The United States has no obligation— to monitor, administer, or account for, in any manner, any funds provided to the Tribe by any party to the Compact; or to review or approve any expenditure of those funds. Nothing in this section affects any provision of law (including regulations) in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act with respect to preenforcement review of any Federal environmental enforcement action. The activities carried out by the Commissioner of Reclamation under this Act shall not establish a precedent or impact the authority provided under any other provision of Federal reclamation law, including— the Reclamation Rural Water Supply Act of 2006 ( 43 U.S.C. 2401 et seq. ); and the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 ( Public Law 111–11 ; 123 Stat. 991). Any activity carried out by the Tribe in the Upper Birch Creek Drainage (as defined in article II.50 of the Compact) using funds made available to carry out this Act shall achieve an irrigation efficiency of not less than 50 percent. The Birch Creek Agreement entered into between the Tribe and the State on January 31, 2008 (including any amendments executed in accordance with this Act to make the Agreement consistent with this Act), is approved to the extent that the Birch Creek Agreement requires approval under section 2116 of the Revised Statutes ( 25 U.S.C. 177 ).
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