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Calendar No. 75
119TH CONGRESS
1st Session
SENATE
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REPORT
119-22
TO APPROVE THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WATER RIGHT
CLAIMS OF THE TULE RIVER TRIBE, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES
MAY 12, 2025.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 689]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill,
S. 689, 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, and recommends that the bill
without amendment do pass.
PURPOSE
S. 689 would recognize the federally reserved Indian water rights
of the Tule River Indian Tribe and authorize, ratify, and confirm
a 2007 water settlement agreement between the Tribe and down-
stream state-based water users, the Tule River Association, and
the South Tule Independent Ditch Company (2007 Agreement),
satisfying the Tribe's claims to water rights in California. The bill
would also authorize funding for water development projects and
operation, maintenance, and repair, establish operating rules for
the facility to provide drinking water for the Tribe, guarantee
water deliveries to downstream state-based users, and transfer cer-
tain lands into trust status for the Tribe.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Tule River Indian Reservation (Reservation) was created in
1856 as part of the Tejon Reservation on San Joaquin Valley farm-
land in Tulare County. It was modified by a series of three Execu-
tive Orders issued between 1873 and 1878 that enlarged, and sub-
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