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Calendar No. 236
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 118-110
TULE RIVER TRIBE RESERVED WATER RIGHTS
SETTLEMENT ACT OF 2023
NOVEMBER 6, 2023.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SCHATZ, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 306]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 306) to approve the settlement of the water right claims of the
Tule River Tribe, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 306 is to recognize the federally reserved In-
dian water rights of the Tule River Indian Tribe and to authorize,
ratify, and confirm a 2007 water settlement agreement between the
Tribe and downstream state-based water users, the Tule River As-
sociation, and the South Tule Independent Ditch Company (2007
Agreement). The bill would also authorize funding to construct a
water storage facility, establish operating rules for the facility to
ensure continual drinking water for the Tribe, guarantee water de-
liveries to downstream state-based users, and transfer certain
lands into trust status for the Tribe.
BACKGROUND
The Tule River Indian Reservation was created by a series of
three Executive Orders issued between 1873 and 1878 that en-
larged, and subsequently shrank, the Reservation to its current
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