Sec. 2. DEFINITIONS
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## SEC. 2 DEFINITIONS In this Act: ####
(1)Original agreement The term “**Original Agreement**” means the “**Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Fish Springs Ranch Settlement Agreement**” dated May 30, 2007, entered into by the Tribe and Fish Springs (including all exhibits to that agreement). ####
(2)Agreement The term “**Agreement**” means the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe-Fish Springs Ranch 2013 Supplement to the 2007 Settlement Agreement dated November 20, 2013, entered into by the Tribe and Fish Springs, and all exhibits to that Agreement. ####
(3)Environmental impact statement The term “**environmental impact statement**” means the final environmental impact statement for the North Valleys Rights-of-Way Projects prepared by the Bureau of Land Management (70 Fed. Reg. 68473). ####
(4)Final payment date The term “**final payment date**” means 30 days after the date on which the Tribe executes the waivers, as authorized in section 4, on or before which Fish Springs shall pay to the Tribe the $3,600,000 and accumulated interest pursuant to subparagraph 4.2 of the Agreement. ####
(5)Fish springs The term “**Fish Springs**” means the Fish Springs Ranch, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (or a successor in interest). ####
(6)Fish springs water rights The term “**Fish Springs water rights**” means the 14,108 acre feet of water available to Fish Springs pursuant to certificates of water rights issued to Fish Springs or its predecessors in interest by the State Engineer for the State of Nevada, copies of which are attached as Exhibit “**G**” to the Original Agreement. ####
(7)Additional fish springs water rights The term “**additional Fish Springs water rights**” means the rights to pump and transfer up to 5,000 acre feet per year of Fish Springs water rights in excess of 8,000 acre feet per year, up to a total of 13,000 acre feet per year, pursuant to Ruling No. 3787 signed by the State Engineer for the State of Nevada on March 1, 1991, and Supplemental Ruling on Remand No. 3787A signed by the State Engineer for the State of Nevada on October 9, 1992. ####
(8)Honey lake valley basin The term “**Honey Lake Valley Basin**” means the Honey Lake Valley Hydrographic Basin described as Nevada Hydrographic Water Basin 97. ####
(9)Project The term “**Project**” means the project for pumping within Honey Lake Valley Basin and transfer outside of the basin by Fish Springs of not more than 13,000 acre feet per year of Fish Springs water rights, including— #####
(A)not more than 8,000 acre feet as described in the environmental impact statement (but not the Intermountain Water Supply, Ltd., Project described in the environmental impact statement) and the record of decision; #####
(B)up to the 5,000 acre feet of additional Fish Springs water rights; and #####
(C)the rights and approvals for Fish Springs to pump and transfer up to said 13,000 acre feet of groundwater per year. ####
(10)Record of decision The term “**record of decision**” means the public record of the decision of the District Manager of the United States Bureau of Land Management’s Carson City District in the State of Nevada issued on May 31, 2006, regarding the environmental impact statement and the Project. ####
(11)Secretary The term “**Secretary**” means the Secretary of the Interior (or a designee of the Secretary). ####
(12)Tribe The term “**Tribe**” means the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians organized under section 16 of the Act of June 18, 1934 (commonly known as the “**Indian Reorganization Act**”; 25 U.S.C. 476). ####
(13)Truckee river operating agreement The term “**Truckee River Operating Agreement**” means— #####
(A)the September 6, 2008, Truckee River Operating Agreement negotiated for the purpose of carrying out the terms of the Truckee-Carson-Pyramid Lake Water Rights Settlement Act (Public Law 101-618); and #####
(B)any final, signed version of the Truckee River Operating Agreement that becomes effective under the terms of the Truckee-Carson-Pyramid Lake Water Rights Settlement Act.
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- 70 FR 68473
- Pub. L. 101-618
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