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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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106TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 106-743
SHIVWITS BAND OF THE PAIUTE INDIAN TRIBE OF UTAH
WATER RIGHTS SETTLEMENT ACT
JULY 17, 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. 3291]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 3291) to provide for the settlement of the water rights claims
of the Shivwits Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably there-
on with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended
do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof
the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Shivwits Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah
Water Rights Settlement Act.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) It is the official policy of the United States, in keeping with its trust re-
sponsibility to Indian tribes, to promote Indian self-determination and economic
self-sufficiency, and to settle the water rights claims of Indian tribes to avoid
lengthy and costly litigation.
(2) Any meaningful policy of Indian self-determination and economic self-suffi-
ciency requires the development of viable Indian reservation economies.
(3) The quantification of water rights and the development of water use facili-
ties is essential to the development of viable Indian reservation economies, par-
ticularly in the arid Western States.
(4) The Act of March 3, 1891, provided for the temporary support of the
Shebit (or Shivwits) tribe of Indians in Washington County, Utah, and appro-
priated moneys for the purchase of improvements on lands along the Santa
Clara River for the use of said Indians. Approximately 26,880 acres in the same
area were set aside as a reservation for the Shivwits Band by Executive order
dated April 21, 1916. An additional 1,280 acres were added to the reservation
by Congress on May 28, 1937.
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