Technical Correction to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-546
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2025-02-12
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations

Government trust funds

Idaho

Indian claims

Indian lands and resources rights

Interest, dividends, interest rates

Nevada

Water use and supply
Latest action: action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-02-12
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Technical Correction to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation Water Rights Settlement Act of </strong><strong>2025</strong></p><p>This bill authorizes deposit of specified interest payments into the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Water Rights Development Fund. This fund was established in 2009 under the water rights settlement agreement for the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation.</p>

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 546 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 12, 2025 Ms. Cortez Masto introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs A BILL To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to make a technical correction to the water rights settlement for the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Technical Correction to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025 . 2. Authorization of payment of adjusted interest on Development Fund Section 10807(b)(3) of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 ( Public Law 111–11 ; 123 Stat. 1409) is amended— (1) by striking There is and inserting the following: (A) In general There is ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (B) Adjusted interest payments There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for deposit into the Development Fund $5,124,902.12. .