{"format":1,"id":"117-s-3168","congress":117,"number":"S. 3168","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"A bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to modify the enforceability date for certain provisions, and for other purposes.","title_source":"Display Title","official_title":"A bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to modify the enforceability date for certain provisions, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"A bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to modify the enforceability date for certain provisions, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"A bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to modify the enforceability date for certain provisions, and for other purposes."}],"outcome":"became_law","law_number":"Public Law 117-342","introduced":"2021-11-04","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2022-12-21","vote":{"id":"117-2022-h537","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass","title":"To amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to modify the enforceability date for certain provisions, and for other purposes","result":"Passed","yea":378,"nay":33,"present":0,"not_voting":19,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2022/roll537.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"voice","date":"2022-12-19","vote":null,"how":"unanimous_consent","words":"Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent."}},"president":{"status":"signed","date":"2023-01-05"},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Became Public Law No: 117-342.","date":"2023-01-05"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2023-01-05","stage":"Public Law","blocks":[{"k":"p","t":"This act revises the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010, including by extending certain deadlines and establishing reporting requirements. (The quantification act approved the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Agreement, settling the tribe's water rights in Arizona. It authorized the design and construction of a rural water system to address the water infrastructure needs on the tribe's reservation.)"},{"k":"p","t":"Specifically, the act extends the enforceability deadline, from 2023 to 2027, for the Department of the Interior to publish a statement of findings required by the quantification act. In particular, the act repeals the settlement agreement on December 31, 2027, if Interior does not publish by December 30, 2027, a statement of findings that specified conditions have been fulfilled (including that funds necessary to construct the rural water system have been deposited into a specified subaccount)."},{"k":"p","t":"The act makes changes to cost indexing for the funds and subaccounts established under the quantification act, including by allowing adjustments for construction costs."},{"k":"p","t":"The act also requires annual reports to Congress describing all expenditures and including additional information, such as progress and cost accounting on the planning, design, and construction of the Miner Flat Dam and any additional water supply facilities resulting from expenditures."},{"k":"p","t":"Finally, the act establishes requirements for determining whether the rural water system is substantially complete. In particular, the rural water system shall be determined to be substantially complete if (1) the infrastructure is capable of storing, diverting, treating, transmitting, and distributing a supply of water as set forth in the final project design; or (2) Interior has expended all available funding and cannot complete construction due solely to the lack of additional authorized funding."}],"words":279},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Amends the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 and a related loan authorization act to change the enforceability date, cost indexing, funding, completion standard and reporting for the tribe's rural water system.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3168/text/enr#S1:~:text=1.%20White%20Mountain%20Apache%20Tribe%20rural%20water"}]},"core_areas":["Enforceability date of the White Mountain Apache Tribe water rights settlement","Cost indexing and funding of the WMAT settlement funds and Cost Overrun Subaccount","Standard for substantial completion of the WMAT rural water system","Annual reporting on expenditures from the WMAT funds and subaccount"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Changes the enforceability date in Section 309(d)(2) of the 2010 Act from \"April 30, 2023\" to \"December 30, 2027\" and from \"May 1, 2023\" to \"December 31, 2027\".","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3168/text/enr#S1:~:text=1.%20White%20Mountain%20Apache%20Tribe%20rural%20water"}},{"text":"Rewrites the cost indexing rules in Section 312(c), adjusting the settlement subaccount, settlement fund, maintenance fund and cost overrun subaccount amounts by set construction cost indices or the Consumer Price Index, and adding an adjustment for unforeseen market volatility as determined by the Secretary.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3168/text/enr#S1:~:text=1.%20White%20Mountain%20Apache%20Tribe%20rural%20water"}},{"text":"Changes the figure in Section 312(e)(2)(B) of the 2010 Act, which concerns the WMAT Cost Overrun Subaccount, from \"$11,000,000\" to \"$541,000,000\".","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3168/text/enr#S1:~:text=1.%20White%20Mountain%20Apache%20Tribe%20rural%20water"}},{"text":"Provides that the WMAT rural water system is substantially complete if the infrastructure can store, divert, treat, transmit and distribute water as set out in the final project design, or if the Secretary has spent all available funding and cannot finish solely for lack of additional authorized funding.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3168/text/enr#S1:~:text=1.%20White%20Mountain%20Apache%20Tribe%20rural%20water"}},{"text":"Bars amounts made available under Section 312(e)(2)(B) from coming from the Indian Water Rights Settlement Completion Fund or the Reclamation Water Settlements Fund.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3168/text/enr#S1:~:text=1.%20White%20Mountain%20Apache%20Tribe%20rural%20water"}},{"text":"Requires the Director of the Bureau to send an annual report to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the House Committee on Natural Resources describing expenditures from the WMAT funds and subaccount, including progress and cost accounting on the Miner Flat Dam.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3168/text/enr#S1:~:text=1.%20White%20Mountain%20Apache%20Tribe%20rural%20water"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Enrolled Bill","date":null,"rule":"enrolled","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3168/text/enr"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-15","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3168","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3168/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-s-3168.png","v":"bf6807742ec2","alt":"Votes on Record. S. 3168, 117th Congress: A bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to modify the enforceability date for certain provisions, and for other purposes. House: 378 Yea, 33 Nay. Senate: unanimous consent. Outcome: Became law, 5 Jan 2023."}}