(2) $25,333,330 to the Idaho Salmon and 
Clearwater River Basins Habitat Account. 
SEC. 10. TRIBAL WAIVER AND RELEASE OF CLAIMS. 
(a) WAIVER
AND RELEASE
OF CLAIMS
IN GEN-
ERAL.—
(1) CLAIMS TO WATER RIGHTS; CLAIMS FOR IN-
JURIES TO WATER RIGHTS OR TREATY RIGHTS.—Ex-
cept as otherwise provided in this Act, the United 
States on behalf of the Tribe and the allottees, and 
the Tribe, waive and release—
(A) all claims to water rights within the 
Snake River Basin (as defined in section 3(b)); 
(B) all claims for injuries to such water 
rights; and 
(C) all claims for injuries to the treaty 
rights of the Tribe to the extent that such inju-
ries result or resulted from flow modifications 
or reductions in the quantity of water available 
that accrued at any time up to and including 
the effective date of the settlement, and any 
continuation thereafter of any such claims, 
against the State, any agency or political sub-
division of the State, or any person, entity, cor-
poration, municipal corporation, or quasi-mu-
nicipal corporation.
(2) CLAIMS BASED ON REDUCED WATER QUAN-
TITY OR REDUCTIONS IN WATER QUANTITY.—The 
United States on behalf of the Tribe and the 
allottees, and the Tribe, waive and release any claim, 
under any treaty theory, based on reduced water 
quality resulting directly from flow modifications or 
reductions in the quantity of water available in the 
Snake River Basin against any party to the Agree-
ment or this Act. 
(3) NO FUTURE ASSERTION OF CLAIMS.—No 
water right claim that the Tribe or the allottees have 
asserted or may in the future assert outside the 
Snake River Basin shall require water to be supplied 
from the Snake River Basin to satisfy the claim. 
(4) EFFECT OF WAIVERS AND RELEASES.—The 
waivers and releases by the United States and the 
Tribe under this subsection—
(A) shall be permanent and enforceable; 
and 
(B) shall survive any subsequent termi-
nation of any component of the settlement de-
scribed in the Agreement or this Act. 
(5) EFFECTIVE
DATE.—The waivers and re-
leases under this subsection take effect on the date 
on which the Secretary causes to be published in the
Federal Register a statement of findings that the ac-
tions set forth in section IV.L of the Agreement—
(A) 
have 
been 
completed, 
including 
issuance of a judgment and decree by the 
SRBA court from which no further appeal may 
be taken; and 
(B) have been determined by the United 
States on behalf of the Tribe and the allottees, 
the Tribe, and the State of Idaho to be con-
sistent in all material aspects with the Agree-
ment. 
(b) WAIVER AND RELEASE OF CLAIMS AGAINST THE 
UNITED STATES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—In consideration of perform-
ance by the United States of all actions required by 
the Agreement and this Act, including the appro-
priation of all funds authorized under sections 8(h) 
and 9(d)(1), the Tribe shall execute a waiver and re-
lease of the United States from—
(A) all claims for water rights within the 
Snake River Basin, injuries to such water 
rights, or breach of trust claims for failure to 
protect, acquire, or develop such water rights 
that accrued at any time up to and including
the effective date determined under paragraph 
(2); 
(B) all claims for injuries to the Tribe’s 
treaty fishing rights, to the extent that such in-
juries result or resulted from reductions in the 
quantity of water available in the Snake River 
Basin; 
(C) all claims of breach of trust for failure 
to protect Nez Perce springs or fountains treaty 
rights reserved in article VIII of the Treaty of 
June 9, 1863 (14 Stat. 651); and 
(D) all claims of breach of trust arising 
out of the negotiation of or resulting from the 
adoption of the Agreement. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The waiver and release 
contained in this subsection take effect on the date 
on which the funds authorized under sections 8(h) 
and 9(d)(1) of this Act have been appropriated as 
authorized by this Act. 
(c) RETENTION OF RIGHTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Tribe shall retain all 
rights not specifically waived or released in the 
Agreement or this Act. 
(2) DWORSHAK
PROJECT.—Nothing in the 
Agreement or this Act constitutes a waiver by the