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Calendar No. 259
111TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 111-118
AUTHORIZING THE CROW TRIBE OF INDIANS WATER
RIGHTS SETTLEMENT, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
January 21, 2010.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. DORGAN, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 375]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill,
S. 375, to authorize the Crow Tribe of Indians water rights settle-
ment, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon with an amendment in the nature of a substitute
and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 375 is to achieve a fair, equitable and final set-
tlement of claims to water rights in the State of Montana by the
Crow Tribe and the United States for the benefit of the Tribe and
tribal allottees. The bill would ratify the Crow Tribe-Montana
Water Rights Compact entered into by the Tribe and the State of
Montana on June 22, 1999, direct the Secretary of the Interior to
execute the Crow Tribe-Montana Water Rights Compact, and au-
thorize the appropriation of funds necessary for the implementa-
tion of the Compact and this bill.
BACKGROUND
The Crow Reservation
The Crow Tribe's Reservation is located in southern Montana
along the Montana-Wyoming border. The Reservation is the largest
of the seven Indian reservations located in Montana and one of the
largest in the United States. The Reservation encompasses approxi-
mately 2.3 million acres. The Reservation includes three mountain
ranges, rolling upland plains and fertile valleys. Rainfall averages
12 inches per year. Reservation agriculture production consists
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