water from precipitation, natural runoff, irrigation
return flows, wastewater, floods, and other inflow
from within its watershed area.
(4) The term ‘‘Settlement Agreement’’ means the
Agreement of Compromise and Settlement Concerning
Claims to Lands of the United States Within and on
the Perimeter of the Salton Sea Drainage Reservoir
Held in Trust for the Torres-Martinez Indians exe-
cuted on June 18, 1996.
(5) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of
the Interior.
(6) The term ‘‘permanent flowage easement’’
means the perpetual right by the water districts to
use the described lands in the Salton Sink within and
below the minus 220-foot contour as a drainage res-
ervoir to receive and store water from their respective
water and drainage systems, including flood water,
return flows from irrigation, tail water, leach water,
operational spills and any other water which over-
flows and floods such lands, originating from lands
within such water districts.
SEC. 4. RATIFICATION OF SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT.
The United States hereby approves, ratifies, and con-
firms the Settlement Agreement.
SEC. 5. SETTLEMENT FUNDS.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF TRIBAL AND ALLOTTEES SET-
TLEMENT TRUST FUNDS ACCOUNTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—There are established in the
Treasury of the United States three settlement trust
fund accounts to be known as the ‘‘Torres-Martinez
Settlement Trust Funds Account’’, the ‘‘Torres-Mar-
tinez Allottees Settlement Account I’’, and the
‘‘Torres-Martinez Allottees Settlement Account II’’, re-
spectively.
(2) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts held in the Torres-
Martinez Settlement Trust Funds Account, the
Torres-Martinez Allottees Settlement Account I, and
the Torres-Martinez Allottees Settlement Account II
shall be available to the Secretary for distribution to
the Tribe and affected allottees in accordance with
subsection (c).
(b) CONTRIBUTIONS
TO
THE SETTLEMENT TRUST
FUNDS.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Amounts paid to the Sec-
retary for deposit into the trust fund accounts estab-
lished by subsection (a) shall be allocated among and
deposited in the trust accounts in the amounts deter-
mined by the tribal-allottee allocation provisions of
the Settlement Agreement.
(2) CASH
PAYMENTS
BY
COACHELLA
VALLEY
WATER DISTRICT.—Within the time, in the manner,
and upon the conditions specified in the Settlement
Agreement, the Coachella Valley Water District shall
pay the sum of $337,908.41 to the United States for
the benefit of the Tribe and any affected allottees.
(3) CASH PAYMENTS BY IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT.—Within the time, in the manner, and
upon the conditions specified in the Settlement Agree-
ment, the Imperial Irrigation District shall pay the
sum of $3,670,694.33 to the United States for the ben-
efit of the Tribe and any affected allottees.
(4) CASH PAYMENTS BY THE UNITED STATES.—
Within the time and upon the conditions specified in
the Settlement Agreement, the United States shall pay
into the three separate tribal and allottee trust fund
accounts the total sum of $10,200,000, of which
sum—
(A) $4,200,000 shall be provided from mon-
eys appropriated by Congress under section 1304
of title 31, United States Code, the conditions of
which are deemed to have been met, including
those of section 2414 of title 28, United States
Code; and
(B) $6,000,000 shall be provided from mon-
eys appropriated by Congress for this specific
purpose to the Secretary.
(5) ADDITIONAL PAYMENTS.—In the event that
any of the sums described in paragraphs (2) or (3)
are not timely paid by the Coachella Valley Water
District or the Imperial Irrigation District, as the
case may be, the delinquent payor shall pay an addi-
tional sum equal to 10 percent interest annually on
the amount outstanding daily, compounded yearly on
December 31 of each respective year, until all out-
standing amounts due have been paid in full.
(6) SEVERALLY
LIABLE
FOR
PAYMENTS.—The
Coachella Valley Water District, the Imperial Irriga-
tion District, and the United States shall each be sev-
erally liable, but not jointly liable, for its respective
obligation to make the payments specified by this sub-
section.
(c) 
ADMINISTRATION
OF
SETTLEMENT
TRUST
FUNDS.—The Secretary shall administer and distribute
funds held in the Torres-Martinez Settlement Trust Funds
Account, the Torres-Martinez Allottees Settlement Account
I, and the Torres-Martinez Allottees Settlement Account II
in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Settle-
ment Agreement.
SEC. 6. TRUST LAND ACQUISITION AND STATUS.
(a) ACQUISITION AND PLACEMENT OF LANDS INTO
TRUST.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall convey
into trust status lands purchased or otherwise ac-
quired by the Tribe within the areas described in
paragraphs (2) and (3) in an amount not to exceed
11,800 acres in accordance with the terms, conditions,
criteria, and procedures set forth in the Settlement
Agreement and this Act. Subject to such terms, condi-
tions, criteria, and procedures, all lands purchased or
otherwise acquired by the Tribe and conveyed into
trust status for the benefit of the Tribe pursuant to
the Settlement Agreement and this Act shall be con-
sidered as if such lands were so acquired in trust sta-
tus in 1909 except as (i) to water rights as provided
in subsection (c), and (ii) to valid rights existing at
the time of acquisition pursuant to this Act.
(2) PRIMARY ACQUISITION AREA.—(A) The pri-
mary area within which lands may be acquired pur-
suant to paragraph (1) are those certain lands located
in the Primary Acquisition Area, as defined in the
Settlement Agreement. The amount of acreage that
may be acquired from such area is 11,800 acres less
the number of acres acquired and conveyed into trust
by reason of paragraph (3).
(B) Lands may not be acquired under this para-
graph if by majority vote of the governing body of the
city within whose incorporated boundaries (as such
boundaries exist on the date of the Settlement Agree-
ment) objects to the Tribe’s request to convey such
lands into trust and notifies the Secretary of such ob-
jection in writing within 60 days of receiving a copy
of the Tribe’s request in accordance with the Settle-
ment Agreement.
(3) SECONDARY ACQUISITION AREA.—
(A) Not more than 640 acres of land may
be acquired pursuant to paragraph (1) from
those certain lands located in the Secondary Ac-
quisition Area, as defined in the Settlement
Agreement.
(B) Lands referred to in subparagraph (A)
may not be acquired pursuant to paragraph (1)
if by majority vote—
(i) the governing body of the city whose
incorporated boundaries the subject lands
are situated within, or
(ii) the governing body of Riverside
County, California, in the event that such
lands are located within an unincorporated
area,
(3) continue to enjoy all valid water rights ap-
purtenant to the land existing immediately prior to
the time of tribal acquisition.
SEC. 7. PERMANENT FLOWAGE EASEMENTS.
(a) CONVEYANCE OF EASEMENT TO COACHELLA VAL-
LEY WATER DISTRICT.—
(1) TRIBAL INTEREST.—The United States, in
its capacity as trustee for the Tribe, as well as for
any affected Indian allotment owners, and their suc-
cessors and assigns, and the Tribe in its own right
and that of its successors and assigns, shall convey to
the Coachella Valley Water District a permanent
flowage easement as to all Indian trust lands (ap-
proximately 11,800 acres) located within and below
the minus 220-foot contour of the Salton Sink, in ac-
cordance with the terms and conditions of the Settle-
ment Agreement.
(2) UNITED
STATES
INTEREST.—The United
States, in its own right shall, notwithstanding any
prior or present reservation or withdrawal of land of
any kind, convey to Coachella Valley Water District
a permanent flowage easement as to all Federal lands
(approximately 110,000 acres) located within and
below the minus 220-foot contour of the Salton Sink,
in accordance with the terms and conditions of the
Settlement Agreement.
(b) CONVEYANCE OF EASEMENT TO IMPERIAL IRRIGA-
TION DISTRICT.—
(1) TRIBAL INTEREST.—The United States, in
its capacity as trustee for the Tribe, as well as for
any affected Indian allotment owners, and their suc-
cessors and assigns, and the Tribe in its own right
and that of its successors and assigns, shall grant and
convey to the Imperial Irrigation District a perma-
nent flowage easement as to all Indian trust lands
(approximately 11,800 acres) located within and
below the minus 220-foot contour of the Salton Sink,
in accordance with the terms and conditions of the
Settlement Agreement.
(2) UNITED STATES.—The United States, in its
own right shall, notwithstanding any prior or present
reservation or withdrawal of land of any kind, grant
and convey to the Imperial Irrigation District a per-
manent flowage easement as to all Federal lands (ap-
proximately 110,000 acres) located within and below
the minus 220-foot contour of the Salton Sink, in ac-
cordance with the terms and conditions of the Settle-
ment Agreement.
SEC. 
8. 
SATISFACTION 
OF 
CLAIMS, 
WAIVERS, 
AND
RELEASES.
(a) SATISFACTION OF CLAIMS.—The benefits available
to the Tribe and the allottees under the terms and condi-
tions of the Settlement Agreement and the provisions of this
Act shall constitute full and complete satisfaction of the
claims by the Tribe and the allottees arising from or related
to the inundation and lack of drainage of tribal and allottee
lands described in section 2 of this Act and further defined
in the Settlement Agreement.
(b) APPROVAL
OF WAIVERS
AND RELEASES.—The
United States hereby approves and confirms the releases
and waivers required by the Settlement Agreement and this
Act.
SEC. 9. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
(a) ELIGIBILITY FOR BENEFITS.—Nothing in this Act
or the Settlement Agreement shall affect the eligibility of
the Tribe or its members for any Federal program or dimin-
ish the trust responsibility of the United States to the Tribe
and its members.
(b) ELIGIBILITY
FOR OTHER SERVICES NOT AF-
FECTED.—No payment pursuant to this Act shall result in
the reduction or denial of any Federal services or programs
to the Tribe or to members of the Tribe, to which they are
entitled or eligible because of their status as a federally rec-
ognized Indian tribe or member of the Tribe.
(c) PRESERVATION OF EXISTING RIGHTS.—Except as
provided in this Act or the Settlement Agreement, any right
to which the Tribe is entitled under existing law shall not
be affected or diminished.
(d) AMENDMENT OF SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT.—The
Settlement Agreement may be amended from time to time
in accordance with its terms and conditions.
SEC. 10. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as
are necessary to carry out this Act.
SEC. 11. EFFECTIVE DATE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided by subsection
(b), this Act shall take effect on the date of enactment of
this Act.
(b) EXCEPTION.—Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 shall take
effect on the date on which the Secretary of the Interior
determines the following conditions have been met:
(1) The Tribe agrees to the Settlement Agreement
and the provisions of this Act and executes the re-
leases and waivers required by the Settlement Agree-
ment and this Act.
(2) The Coachella Valley Water District agrees to
the Settlement Agreement and to the provisions of this
Act.
(3) The Imperial Irrigation District agrees to the
Settlement Agreement and to the provisions of this
Act.