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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · H.R. 1482 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act to make improvements to that Act, and for other purposes. · Sec. 4

Sec. 4. Navajo Nation water rights

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Section 10701(e) of the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act ( Public Law 111–11 ; 123 Stat. 1400; 129 Stat. 528) is amended— in paragraph (1)(A)— by striking clause
(vii)and inserting the following: Not later than December 31, 2019, the United States shall make all deposits into the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund established by section 10702(a)(1). ; in clause (viii), by striking 2019 and inserting 2032 ; in clause (ix), by striking 2024 and inserting 2029 ; and by adding at the end the following: Not later than December 31, 2029, the United States shall make all deposits into the Deferred Construction Fund in accordance with section 10602(i)(3). On deposit of the amounts into the Deferred Construction Fund under subclause (I), even if certain Project facilities have not yet been constructed, the Secretary shall be deemed to have met the deadline described in clause (ix). ; and in paragraph (2)(B)— in clause (i), by striking Trust Fund and inserting Settlement Trust Funds ; and in clause (ii), by striking Trust Fund and inserting Settlement Trust Funds . Section 10702 of the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act ( Public Law 111–11 ; 123 Stat. 1402) is amended to read as follows: There is established in the Treasury a fund, to be known as the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund , consisting of— such amounts as are appropriated to the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund under paragraph (5); and any interest earned on investment of amounts in the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund under paragraph (3). The Nation may use amounts in the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund— to investigate, construct, operate, maintain, or replace water project facilities, including facilities conveyed to the Nation under this subtitle and facilities owned by the United States for which the Nation is responsible for operation, maintenance, and replacement costs; and to investigate, implement, or improve a water conservation measure (including a metering or monitoring activity) necessary for the Nation to make use of a water right of the Nation under the Agreement. Beginning on October 1, 2019, the Secretary shall invest amounts in the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund in accordance with subsection (e). Any investment earnings, including interest, credited to amounts held in the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund are authorized to be used in accordance with paragraph (2). There are authorized to be appropriated for deposit in the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund— $6,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014; and $4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2019. Any amount authorized to be appropriated to the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund under paragraph
(5)shall not be available for expenditure or withdrawal— before December 31, 2019; and until the date on which the court in the stream adjudication has entered— the Partial Final Decree; and the Supplemental Partial Final Decree. The Secretary shall manage the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund in accordance with subsection (d). After the funds become available pursuant to paragraph (6), all expenditures and withdrawals by the Nation of funds in the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund must comply with the requirements of subsection (f). The Secretary shall establish a trust fund to be known as the Navajo Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund for the purposes set forth in paragraph (2), to be managed, invested, and distributed by the Secretary, and to remain available until expended, withdrawn, or reverted to the general fund of the Treasury, consisting of the amounts deposited in the trust fund under paragraph (3), together with any interests earned on those amounts under paragraph (4). The Nation may use amounts in the Navajo Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund to pay operation, maintenance, and replacement costs of the Project allocable to the Nation under section 10604. There are authorized to be appropriated for deposit in the Navajo Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund $250,000,000. Upon deposit of funding into the Navajo Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund pursuant to paragraph (3), the Secretary shall invest amounts deposited in accordance with subsection (e). Any investment earnings, including interest, credited to amounts held in the Navajo Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund are authorized to be used in accordance with paragraph (2). Any amount authorized to be appropriated to the Navajo Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund under paragraph
(3)shall not be available for expenditure or withdrawal until the Nation is responsible for payment of operation, maintenance, and replacement costs as set forth in section 10603(g). The amounts authorized to be appropriated under paragraph
(3)shall be increased or decreased, as appropriate, by such amounts as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in costs occurring after October 2022 as indicated by the Bureau of Reclamation Operation and Maintenance Cost Index. The adjustment process under this subparagraph shall be repeated for each subsequent amount appropriated until the amount authorized, as adjusted, has been appropriated. The period of indexing adjustment under this subparagraph for any increment of funding shall end on the date on which the funds are deposited into the Navajo Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund. The Secretary shall manage the Navajo Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund in accordance with subsection (d). All expenditures and withdrawals by the Nation of funds in the Navajo Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund must comply with the requirements of subsection (f). Prior to establishment of the trust fund under paragraph (2), the Secretary shall conduct an Ability to Pay study to determine what operation, maintenance, and replacement costs of that section of the Project serving the Jicarilla Apache Nation are in excess of the ability of the Jicarilla Apache Nation to pay. Upon completion of the Ability to Pay study as set forth in paragraph (1), the Secretary shall establish a trust fund to be known as the Jicarilla Apache Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund for the purposes set forth in paragraph (3), to be managed, invested, and distributed by the Secretary and to remain available until expended, withdrawn, or reverted to the general fund of the Treasury, consisting of the amounts deposited in the trust fund under paragraph (4), together with any interests earned on those amounts under paragraph (5). The Jicarilla Apache Nation may use amounts in the Jicarilla Apache Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund to pay operation, maintenance, and replacement costs of the Project allocable to the Jicarilla Nation under section 10604. There are authorized to be appropriated for deposit in the Jicarilla Apache Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund the amounts the Secretary has determined are in excess of the ability of the Jicarilla Apache Nation to pay in the Ability to Pay study required under paragraph
(1)up to a maximum of $10,000,000. Upon deposit of funding into the Jicarilla Apache Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund pursuant to paragraph (4), the Secretary shall invest amounts in the fund in accordance with subsection (e). Any investment earnings, including interest, credited to amounts held in the Jicarilla Apache Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund are authorized to be used in accordance with paragraph (3). Any amount authorized to be appropriated to the Jicarilla Apache Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund under paragraph
(4)shall not be available for expenditure or withdrawal until the Jicarilla Apache Nation is responsible for payment of operation, maintenance, and replacement costs as set forth in section 10603(g). The amounts authorized to be appropriated under paragraph
(4)shall be increased or decreased, as appropriate, by such amounts as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in costs occurring after October 2022 as indicated by the Bureau of Reclamation Operation and Maintenance Cost Index. The adjustment process under this subparagraph shall be repeated for each subsequent amount appropriated until the amount authorized, as adjusted, has been appropriated. The period of indexing adjustment under this subparagraph for any increment of funding shall end on the date on which the funds are deposited into the Jicarilla Apache Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund. The Secretary shall manage the Jicarilla Apache Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund in accordance with subsection (d). All expenditures and withdrawals by the Jicarilla Apache Nation of funds in the Jicarilla Apache Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund must comply with the requirements of subsection (f). The Secretary shall manage the Settlement Trust Funds, invest amounts in the Settlement Trust Funds pursuant to subsection (e), and make amounts available from the Settlement Trust Funds for distribution to the Nation and the Jicarilla Apache Nation in accordance with the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 ( 25 U.S.C. 4001 et seq. ). The Secretary shall invest amounts in the Settlement Trust Funds in accordance with— the Act of April 1, 1880 ( 25 U.S.C. 161 ); the first section of the Act of June 24, 1938 ( 25 U.S.C. 162a ); and the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 ( 25 U.S.C. 4001 et seq. ). On approval by the Secretary of a Tribal management plan in accordance with the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 ( 25 U.S.C. 4001 et seq. ), the Nation and the Jicarilla Apache Nation may withdraw all or a portion of the amounts in the Settlement Trust Funds. In addition to any requirements under the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 ( 25 U.S.C. 4001 et seq. ), a Tribal management plan shall require that the Nation and Jicarilla Apache Nation only use amounts in the Settlement Trust Funds for the purposes described in subsection (a)(2), (b)(2), or (c)(3), as applicable. The Secretary may take judicial or administrative action to enforce the provisions of any Tribal management plan to ensure that any amounts withdrawn from the Settlement Trust Funds are used in accordance with this subtitle. The Secretary or the Secretary of the Treasury shall not be liable for the expenditure or investment of any amounts withdrawn from the Settlement Trust Funds by the Nation or the Jicarilla Apache Nation. The Nation and Jicarilla Apache Nation shall submit to the Secretary for approval an expenditure plan for any portion of the amounts in the Settlement Trust Funds made available under this section that the Nation or the Jicarilla Apache Nation does not withdraw under this subsection. An expenditure plan submitted under subparagraph
(A)shall describe the manner in which, and the purposes for which, funds of the Nation or the Jicarilla Apache Nation remaining in the Settlement Trust Funds will be used. On receipt of an expenditure plan under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall approve the plan if the Secretary determines that the plan is reasonable and consistent with this subtitle. The Nation and Jicarilla Apache Nation shall submit to the Secretary an annual report that describes any expenditures from the Settlement Trust Funds during the year covered by the report. No portion of the amounts in the Settlement Trust Funds shall be distributed to any Nation or Jicarilla Apache Nation member on a per capita basis. . The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 ( Public Law 111–11 ; 123 Stat. 991) is amended by striking the item relating to section 10702 and inserting the following: Sec. 10702. Settlement trust funds. . Section 10703 of the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act ( Public Law 111–11 ; 123 Stat. 1403) is amended— in subsection (d)(1)(A), by striking 2025 and inserting 2030 ; and in subsection (e)(2), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 2025 and inserting 2030 .
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  • Pub. L. 111-11
  • 123 Stat. 1400
  • 129 Stat. 528
  • 123 Stat. 1402
  • 123 Stat. 991
  • 123 Stat. 1403
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Sec. 4
Navajo Nation water rights
U.S.C.§ 4001
U.S.C.§ 161
U.S.C.§ 162a
Pub. L.Pub. L. 111-11
Stat.123 Stat. 1400
Stat.129 Stat. 528
Stat.123 Stat. 1402
Stat.123 Stat. 991
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