Code · BILL · 116th Congress · S. 1207 (Reported in Senate) — To approve the settlement of the water rights claims of the Navajo Nation in Utah, and for other purposes. · Sec. 11

Sec. 11. Relation to allottees

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Nothing in this Act or the agreement shall affect the rights or claims of allottees, or the United States, acting in its capacity as trustee for or on behalf of allottees, for water rights or damages related to lands allotted by the United States to allottees, except as provided in section 5(a)(2). Allottees, or the United States, acting in its capacity as trustee for allottees, are not bound by any decree entered in the general stream adjudication confirming the Navajo water rights and shall not be precluded from making claims to water rights in the general stream adjudication.

Allottees, or the United States, acting in its capacity as trustee for allottees, may make claims and such claims may be adjudicated as individual water rights in the general stream adjudication.