Sec. 7. Tú ńlį́į́níchoh Water Infrastructure Project Fund
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The Secretary shall establish a non-trust interest-bearing account, to be known as the Tú ńlį́į́níchoh Water Infrastructure Project Fund (referred to in this section as the Project Fund ) and to be managed and distributed by the Secretary to carry out this Act. The Secretary shall establish within the Project Fund the following accounts (referred to in this section as the Project Fund Accounts ): The Cragin-Verde Pipeline Account. The YAN Drinking Water System Account. The Secretary shall deposit— in the Cragin-Verde Pipeline Account established under subsection (b)(1), the amounts made available pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A); and in the YAN Drinking Water System Account established under subsection (b)(2), the amounts made available pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B).
The Cragin-Verde Pipeline Account established under subsection (b)(1) shall be used by the Secretary— to carry out section 6(b), including all required environmental compliance under section 4(c), for the Cragin-Verde Pipeline Project; and to reimburse SRP for the proportional Cragin Capital Costs and Cragin O&M Costs associated with water delivered to the Yavapai-Apache Nation from the C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir under subparagraph 8.6.1 of the Agreement. The YAN Drinking Water System Account established under subsection (b)(2) shall be used by the Secretary to carry out section 6(c), including all required environmental compliance under section 4(c), for the YAN Drinking Water System Project.
Except as provided in paragraph (2), amounts appropriated to and deposited in the Project Fund Accounts under subparagraphs
(A)and
(B)of section 10(a)(1) shall not be made available for expenditure until the Enforceability Date. Of the amounts described in paragraph (1), $13,000,000 shall be made available before the Enforceability Date for the Bureau of Reclamation to carry out environmental compliance and preliminary design of the Tú ńlį́į́níchoh Water Infrastructure Project, subject to the following: The revision of the Settlement Agreement and exhibits to conform to this Act. Execution by all of the required settlement parties, including the United States, of the conformed Settlement Agreement and exhibits, including the waivers and releases of claims under section 11. In addition to the deposits to the Project Fund Accounts under subsection (c), any investment earnings, including interest credited to amounts unexpended, are authorized to be appropriated to be used in accordance with the uses described in paragraphs
(1)and
(2)of subsection (d). If the total cost of the activities described in subsection
(b)or
(c)of section 6 are less than the amounts authorized to be appropriated under subparagraphs
(A)and
(B)of section 10(a)(1) to carry out those activities, the Secretary shall deposit the savings into the other Project Fund Account, if such funds are necessary to complete the construction of any component of the Tú ńlį́į́níchoh Water Infrastructure Project. Any funds remaining in the Project Fund on the Date of Substantial Completion shall be deposited in the Yavapai-Apache Nation Water Settlement Trust Fund established by section 8(a) not later than 60 days after that date. No later than 30 days after the Date of Substantial Completion, the Yavapai-Apache Nation may direct the allocation and amounts for the deposit of such funds to 1 or more of the accounts described in section 8(b), but if no timely direction is provided to the Secretary, the Secretary shall deposit the full amount of such funds to the Yavapai-Apache Water Projects Account described in paragraph
(2)of that section.