To amend the Arizona Water Settlements Act to modify the requirements for the statement of findings.

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends the Arizona Water Settlements Act to make the Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement effective as of the date the Secretary of the Interior publishes in the Federal Register a statement of findings that specified conditions apply, including that the judgment and decree attached to the Tohono O'odham settlement agreement has been approved by the state court having jurisdiction over the Gila River adjudication proceedings. (Current law requires the judgment and decree to have become final and nonappealable.)

[110th Congress Public Law 148]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


[DOCID: f:publ148.110]

[[Page 121 STAT. 1818]]

Public Law 110-148
110th Congress

                                 An Act


 
 To amend the Arizona Water Settlements Act to modify the requirements 
 for the statement of findings. <<NOTE: Dec. 21, 2007 -  [H.R. 3739]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. MODIFICATION TO REQUIREMENTS FOR STATEMENT OF FINDINGS.

    Section 302 of the Arizona Water Settlements Act (Public Law 108-
451; 118 Stat. 3571) is amended as follows:
            (1) In subsection (b)(5), by striking ``proceedings,'' and 
        all that follows through the end of the paragraph and inserting 
        ``proceedings;''.
            (2) In subsection (c), by striking ``subsection (a)'' and 
        inserting ``subsection (b)''.

    Approved December 21, 2007.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 3739:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

HOUSE REPORTS: No. 110-484 (Comm. on Natural Resources).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 153 (2007):
            Dec. 11, considered and passed House.
            Dec. 14, considered and passed Senate.

                                  <all>