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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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110TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 110-649
SOBOBA BAND OF LUISENO INDIANS SETTLEMENT ACT
MAY 15, 2008.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. RAHALL, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 4841]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4841) to approve, ratify, and confirm the settlement
agreement entered into to resolve claims by the Soboba Band of
Luiseno Indians relating to alleged interferences with the water re-
sources of the Tribe, to authorize and direct the Secretary of the
Interior to execute and perform the Settlement Agreement and re-
lated waivers, and for other purposes, having considered the same,
report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend 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.
This Act may be cited as the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians Settlement Act.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) FINDINGS.-The Congress finds the following:
(1) The Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians is a federally recognized Indian tribe
whose Reservation of approximately 6,000 acres, extending east and north from
the banks of the San Jacinto River in Riverside County, California, was created
by an Executive Order dated June 19, 1883, and enlarged and modified by sub-
sequent Executive Orders, purchases, and an Act of Congress.
(2) The Tribe's water rights have not been quantified, and the Tribe has as-
serted claims for interferences with the water resources of its Reservation,
which the Tribe maintains have rendered much of the Tribe's Reservation use-
less for habitation, livestock, or Agriculture. On April 20, 2000, the Tribe filed
a lawsuit against The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for in-
terference with the Tribe's water resources and damages to its Reservation al-
legedly caused by Metropolitan's construction and operation of the San Jacinto
Tunnel, which is part of the Colorado River Aqueduct. The lawsuit, styled
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