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Calendar No. 274
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 118-131
RIO SAN JOSE AND RIO JEMEZ WATER SETTLEMENT ACT
OF 2023
DECEMBER 12, 2023.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SCHATZ, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 595]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 595) to approve the settlement of water rights claims of the
Pueblos of Acoma and Laguna in the Rio San Jos6 Stream System
and the Pueblos of Jemez and Zia in the Rio Jemez Stream System
in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes, having consid-
ered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and
recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 595 is to (1) resolve the claims of the Pueblo
of Jemez and Pueblo of Zia to water rights in the Jemez River
Stream System, and authorize, ratify, and confirm the May 11,
2022, water settlement agreement between the Pueblos, the State
of New Mexico, and other interested parties; and (2) resolve the
claims of the Pueblo of Acoma and the Pueblo of Laguna to water
rights in the general stream adjudication of the Rio San Jose
Stream System captioned State of New Mexico, ex rel. State Engi-
neer v. Kerr-McGee, et al in the Thirteenth Judicial District Court
for the State of New Mexico, and authorize, ratify, and confirm the
Rio San Jose Stream System Water Rights Local Settlement
Agreement Among the Pueblo of Acoma, the Pueblo of Laguna, the
Navajo Nation, the State of New Mexico, the City of Grants, the
Village of Milan, the Association of Community Ditches of the Rio
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