(3) RIGHT
TO
VOID
FINAL
DECREE.—If the 
substantial completion criteria have not been met by 
June 15, 2021, after the consultation required by 
paragraph (2), the Pueblos or the United States as 
trustee for the Pueblos have until midnight June 30, 
2024, to ask the Decree Court to void the Final De-
cree pursuant to section 10.3 of the Settlement 
Agreement. 
(f) VOIDING OF WAIVERS.—If the Court determines 
the Final Decree is voided pursuant to section 10.3 of the 
Settlement Agreement, the Settlement Agreement shall no 
longer be effective, the waivers and releases executed pur-
suant to section 204 shall no longer be effective, and any 
unexpended Federal funds, together with any income 
earned thereon, and title to any property acquired or con-
structed with expended Federal funds, shall be returned 
to the Federal Government unless otherwise agreed to by 
the Pueblos and the United States in writing and ap-
proved by Congress. 
SEC. 204. WAIVERS AND RELEASES. 
(a) CLAIMS BY THE PUEBLOS AND THE UNITED 
STATES.—In return for recognition of the Pueblos’ water 
rights and other benefits, including waivers and releases 
by non-Pueblo parties, as set forth in the Settlement 
Agreement and this Act, the Pueblos, on behalf of them-
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selves and their members, and the United States acting 
in its capacity as trustee for the Pueblos are authorized 
to execute a waiver and release of— 
(1) all claims for water rights in the Pojoaque 
Basin that the Pueblos, or the United States acting 
in its capacity as trustee for the Pueblos, asserted, 
or could have asserted, in any proceeding, including 
the Aamodt Case, up to and including the waiver ef-
fectiveness date identified in section 203(d), except 
to the extent that such rights are recognized in the 
Settlement Agreement or this Act; 
(2) all claims for water rights for lands in the 
Pojoaque Basin and for rights to use water in the 
Pojoaque Basin that the Pueblos, or the United 
States acting in its capacity as trustee for the Pueb-
los, might be able to otherwise assert in any pro-
ceeding not initiated on or before the date of enact-
ment of this title, except to the extent that such 
rights are recognized in the Settlement Agreement 
or this Act; 
(3) all claims for damages, losses or injuries to 
water rights or claims of interference with, diversion 
or taking of water (including claims for injury to 
land resulting from such damages, losses, injuries, 
interference with, diversion, or taking) for land with-
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in the Pojoaque Basin that accrued at any time up 
to and including the waiver effectiveness date identi-
fied in section 203(d); 
(4) their defenses in the Aamodt Case to the 
claims previously asserted therein by other parties to 
the Settlement Agreement; 
(5) all pending and future inter se challenges to 
the quantification and priority of water rights of 
non-Pueblo wells in the Pojoaque Basin, except as 
provided by section 2.8 of the Settlement Agree-
ment; 
(6) all pending and future inter se challenges 
against other parties to the Settlement Agreement; 
(7) all claims for damages, losses, or injuries to 
water rights or claims of interference with, diversion 
or taking of water (including claims for injury to 
land resulting from such damages, losses, injuries, 
interference with, diversion, or taking of water) at-
tributable to City of Santa Fe pumping of ground-
water that has effects on the ground and surface 
water supplies of the Pojoaque Basin, provided that 
this waiver shall not be effective by the Pueblo of 
Tesuque unless there is a water resources agreement 
executed between the Pueblo of Tesuque and the 
City of Santa Fe; 
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(8) all claims for damages, losses, or injuries to 
water rights or claims of interference with, diversion 
or taking of water (including claims for injury to 
land resulting from such damages, losses, injuries, 
interference with, diversion, or taking of water) at-
tributable to County of Santa Fe pumping of 
groundwater that has effects on the ground and sur-
face water supplies of the Pojoaque Basin; and 
(9) all claims for damages, losses, or injuries, 
or for injunctive or other relief, because of the condi-
tion of, or changes in, the concentration of naturally 
occurring constituents of ground and surface water 
in the Pojoaque Basin arising out of the diversion of 
water pursuant to water rights recognized by the 
final decree. 
(b) CLAIMS BY THE PUEBLOS AGAINST THE UNITED 
STATES.—The Pueblos, on behalf of themselves and their 
members, are authorized to execute a waiver and release 
of— 
(1) all claims against the United States, its 
agencies, or employees, relating to claims for water 
rights in or water of the Pojoaque Basin or for 
rights to use water in the Pojoaque Basin that the 
United States acting in its capacity as trustee for 
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the Pueblos asserted, or could have asserted, in any 
proceeding, including the Aamodt Case; 
(2) all claims against the United States, its 
agencies, or employees relating to damages, losses, 
or injuries to water, water rights, land, or natural 
resources due to loss of water or water rights (in-
cluding damages, losses or injuries to hunting, fish-
ing, gathering or cultural rights due to loss of water 
or water rights; claims relating to interference with, 
diversion or taking of water or water rights; or 
claims relating to failure to protect, acquire, replace, 
or develop water, water rights or water infrastruc-
ture) within the Pojoaque Basin that first accrued 
at any time up to and including the waiver effective-
ness date identified in section 203(d); 
(3) all claims against the United States, its 
agencies, or employees for an accounting of funds 
appropriated by Acts, including the Act of December 
22, 1927 (45 Stat. 2), the Act of March 4, 1929 (45 
Stat. 1562), the Act of March 26, 1930 (46 Stat. 
90), the Act of February 14, 1931 (46 Stat. 1115), 
the Act of March 4, 1931 (46 Stat. 1552), the Act 
of July 1, 1932 (47 Stat. 525), the Act of June 22, 
1936 (49 Stat. 1757), the Act of August 9, 1937 
(50 Stat. 564), and the Act of May 9, 1938 (52 
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Stat. 291), as authorized by the Pueblo Lands Act 
of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 636), and the Pueblo 
Lands Act of May 31, 1933 (48 Stat. 108), and for 
breach of Trust relating to funds for water replace-
ment appropriated by said Acts that first accrued 
before the date of enactment of this Act; 
(4) all claims against the United States, its 
agencies, or employees relating to the pending litiga-
tion of claims relating to the Pueblos’ water rights 
in the Aamodt Case; and 
(5) all claims against the United States, its 
agencies, or employees relating to the negotiation, 
Execution or the adoption of the Settlement Agree-
ment, exhibits thereto, the Partial Final Decree, the 
Final Decree, or this Act. 
(c) RESERVATION OF RIGHTS AND RETENTION OF 
CLAIMS.—Notwithstanding the waivers and releases au-
thorized in this Act, the Pueblos on behalf of themselves 
and their members and the United States acting in its 
capacity as trustee for the Pueblos retain— 
(1) all claims for enforcement of the Settlement 
Agreement, the Cost-Sharing and System Integra-
tion Agreement, the Final Decree, including the Par-
tial Final Decree, the San Juan-Chama Project con-
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