H. R. 3716 
One Hundred Thirteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and fourteen 
An Act 
To ratify a water settlement agreement affecting the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Pyramid 
Lake Paiute Tribe - Fish Springs Ranch Settlement Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this Act 
is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
Sec. 3. Ratification of agreement. 
Sec. 4. Waiver and releases of claims. 
Sec. 5. Satisfaction of claims. 
Sec. 6. Beneficiaries to agreement. 
Sec. 7. Jurisdiction. 
Sec. 8. Environmental compliance. 
Sec. 9. Miscellaneous provisions. 
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 agree-
ment). 
(2) AGREEMENT.—The term ‘‘Agreement’’ means the Pyr-
amid 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 environ-
mental 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 accumu-
lated 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).
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(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 Inter-
mountain Water Supply, Ltd., Project described in the 
environmental impact statement) and the record of deci-
sion; 
(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 Sec-
retary 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 Reorganiza-
tion 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 Oper-
ating Agreement that becomes effective under the terms 
of the Truckee-Carson-Pyramid Lake Water Rights Settle-
ment Act.