Sec. 3. Definitions
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In this Act: The term agreement for conserved water means an agreement for the creation of system conservation, storage of conserved water in Lake Mead, or other mechanisms for voluntarily leaving a portion of the CRIT reduced consumptive use in Lake Mead. The term allottee means an individual who holds a beneficial real property interest in an allotment of Indian land that is— located within the exterior boundaries of the Reservation; and held in trust by the United States. The term Consolidated Decree means the decree entered by the Supreme Court of the United States in Arizona v.
California, 547 U.S. 150 (2006). The term consumptive use means a portion of the decreed allocation that has a recent history of use by the CRIT within the exterior boundary of the Reservation. Any verified reduction in consumptive use pursuant to a lease or exchange agreement, a storage agreement, or an agreement for conserved water shall be deemed to be a consumptive use in the year in which the reduction occurred, subject to the condition that the reduction is reflected in the Water Accounting Report.
The term CRIT means the Colorado River Indian Tribes, a federally recognized Indian Tribe. The term decreed allocation means the volume of water of the mainstream of the Colorado River allocated to the CRIT that is accounted for as part of the apportionment for the State in part I–A of the Appendix of the Consolidated Decree. The term Lower Basin has the meaning given the term in article II(g) of the Colorado River Compact of 1922, as approved by Congress in section 13 of the Boulder Canyon Project Act ( 43 U.S.C. 617l ) and by the Presidential Proclamation of June 25, 1929 (46 Stat. 3000).
The term person means an individual, a public or private corporation, a company, a partnership, a joint venture, a firm, an association, a society, an estate or trust, a private organization or enterprise, the United States, an Indian Tribe, a governmental entity, or a political subdivision or municipal corporation organized under, or subject to, the constitution and laws of the State. The term Reservation means the portion of the reservation established for the CRIT that is located in the State.
The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior. Except for purposes of section 16, the term State means the State of Arizona. The term storage means the underground storage, in accordance with State law, of a portion of the consumptive use off the Reservation within the Lower Basin in the State. The term Water Accounting Report means the annual report of the Bureau of Reclamation entitled the Colorado River Accounting and Water Use Report: Arizona, California, and Nevada which includes the compilation of records in accordance with article V of the Consolidated Decree.
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