To improve the further development of water resources in Colorado and New Mexico, and for other purposes.

Amends the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 1988 to require: (1) the Secretary of the Interior to assure that not less than one-third of funds appropriated for economic development through each tribe's Tribal Resource Fund be expended for municipal or rural water development; and (2) funds appropriated by this Act and placed in the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Tribal Resource Funds which have not been disbursed by December 31, 2020, to be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3858 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3858

 To improve the further development of water resources in Colorado and 
                  New Mexico, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 16, 2007

 Mr. Salazar introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To improve the further development of water resources in Colorado and 
                  New Mexico, 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. AMENDMENT TO IMPROVE DEVELOPMENT OF WATER RESOURCES.

    Section 16 of the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act 
of 1988 (Public Law 100-585) is amended as follows:
            (1) By amending subsection (c)(3)(B)(iii) to read as 
        follows:
                            ``(iii) Notwithstanding any other provision 
                        of law and in order to ensure that the Federal 
                        Government fulfills the objectives of the 
                        Record of Decision referred to in section 
                        301(b)(8)(F) of the Colorado Ute Settlement Act 
                        Amendments of 2000, the Secretary shall assure 
                        that not less than one-third of the funds 
                        referred to in clause (i) shall be expended for 
                        municipal or rural water development.''.
            (2) By amending subsection (f) to read as follows:
    ``(f) Limitations on Disbursement of Tribal Resources Funds.--Any 
funds appropriated under this section shall be placed into the Southern 
Ute Tribal Resource Fund and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Resource Fund 
in the Treasury of the United States but shall not be available for 
disbursement under this section until the final settlement of the 
tribal claims as provided in section 18. The Secretary may, at the 
Secretary's sole discretion, authorize the disbursement of funds prior 
to the final settlement in the event that the Secretary determines that 
substantial portions of the settlement have been completed. In the 
event that the funds are not disbursed under the terms of this section 
by December 31, 2020, such funds shall be deposited in the general fund 
of the Treasury.''.
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