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1 Providing for the Settlement of the Water Rights Claims of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe 1 (1992)

handle is hein.amindian/pvgfrtestm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Calendar No. 574 102D CONGRESS 1 REPORT 2d Session j SENATE 102-347 PROVIDING FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMS OF THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE TRIBE JULY 29 (legislative day, JULY 23), 1992.-Ordered to be printed Mr. INOUYE, from the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 1607) The Select Committee-on Indian Affairs to which was referred the bill (S. 1607) providing for the settlement of the water rights claims of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recom- mends that the bill as amended do pass. PURPOSE S. 1607 would provide for the settlement of all claims to Federal reserved water rights of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and its members and allottees, and of the United. States on their behalf. It would do so by ratifying a water rights compact entered into by the Tribe and the State of Montana; authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a. cooperative agreement with the State for repair and enlargement of Tongue River Dam to provide 20,000 acrefeet of new water for the Tribe; providing for enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat; authorizing modifications to the purposes and operation of the Big Horn Reservoir; and authorizing the Sec- retary to act as necessary to implement the compact and the legis- lation. BACKGROUND The Northern Cheyenne Reservation was created by Executive Orders in 1884 and 1900. It encompasses 587,914 acres in a rugged, partially mountainous area in Big Horn and Rosebud Counties in southeastern Montana. The Tongue River, which arises in Wyo- 59-010

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