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Calendar No. 522
109TH CONGRESS SEAT REPORT
2d Session SENATE 109-284
FORT McDOWELL INDIAN COMMUNITY WATER RIGHTS
SETTLEMENT REVISION ACT OF 2006
JULY 19, 2006.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. MCCAIN, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2464]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 2464) to revise a provision relating to a repayment obligation
of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation under the Fort McDowell In-
dian Community Water Rights Settlement Act of 1990, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
S. 2464 revises the Fort McDowell Indian Community Water
Rights Settlement Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-628) to implement an
agreement between the Fort McDowell Indian Community and the
Department of the Interior to cancel or relieve the parties of cer-
tain specified obligations arising under the Settlement Act. The ef-
fect of the bill would be to fulfill all conditions necessary to accom-
plish full and final implementation of the Fort McDowell Indian
Community Water Rights Settlement Act of 1990.
BACKGROUND
The Fort McDowell Indian Community Water Rights Settlement
Act of 1990 ratified a negotiated settlement of the entitlement of
the Fort McDowell Indian Community (currently known as the
Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation) to flows from the Verde River.
Among the terms of the Settlement Act, Congress authorized and
directed the Secretary of the Interior to provide the Fort McDowell
Yavapai Nation a no-interest loan of $13 million pursuant to the
Small Reclamation Project Act, to construct facilities for the con-
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