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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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106TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 106-1001
COLORADO UTE SETTLEMENT ACT AMENDMENTS OF 2000
OCTOBER 25, 2000.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, from the Committee on Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 3112]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 3112) to amend the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settle-
ment Act to provide for a final settlement of the claims of the Colo-
rado Ute Indian Tribes, and for other purposes, having considered
the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommend that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS; DEFINITIONS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Colorado Ute Settlement Act
Amendments of 2000.
(b) FINDINGS.-Congress makes the following findings:
(1) In order to provide for a full and final settlement of the claims of the Colo-
rado Ute Indian Tribes on the Animas and La Plata Rivers, the Tribes, the
State of Colorado, and certain of the non-Indian parties to the Agreement have
proposed certain modifications to the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settle-
ment Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-585; 102 Stat. 2973).
(2) The claims of the Colorado Ute Indian Tribes on all rivers in Colorado
other than the Animas and La Plata Rivers have been settled in accordance
with the provisions of the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of
1988 (Public Law 100-585; 102 Stat. 2973).
(3) The Indian and non-Indian communities of southwest Colorado and north-
west New Mexico will be benefited by a settlement of the tribal claims on the
Animas and La Plata Rivers that provides the Tribes with a firm water supply
without taking water away from existing uses.
(4) The Agreement contemplated a specific timetable for the delivery of irriga-
tion and municipal and industrial water and other benefits to the Tribes from
the Animas-La Plata Project, which timetable has not been met. The provision
of irrigation water can not presently be satisfied under the current implementa-
tion of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) and the
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).
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