{"format":1,"id":"117-s-4104","congress":117,"number":"S. 4104","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022","title_source":"Short Titles as Enacted","official_title":"A bill to approve the settlement of water rights claims of the Hualapai Tribe and certain allottees in the State of Arizona, to authorize construction of a water project relating to those water rights claims, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"A bill to approve the settlement of water rights claims of the Hualapai Tribe and certain allottees in the State of Arizona, to authorize construction of a water project relating to those water rights claims, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from ENR (Enrolled) bill text","title":"Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022"},{"type":"Short Titles as Enacted","title":"Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022"},{"type":"Short Titles as Passed House","title":"Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to Senate","title":"Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed Senate","title":"Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022"}],"outcome":"became_law","law_number":"Public Law 117-349","introduced":"2022-04-28","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2022-12-22","vote":{"id":"117-2022-h542","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass","title":"Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act","result":"Passed","yea":360,"nay":55,"present":0,"not_voting":15,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2022/roll542.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.(text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7315-7325)"}},"president":{"status":"signed","date":"2023-01-05"},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Became Public Law No: 117-349.","date":"2023-01-05"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2023-01-05","stage":"Public Law","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022"},{"k":"p","t":"This act authorizes, ratifies, and confirms the Hualapai Tribe water rights settlement agreement negotiated between the tribe, the United States, Arizona, and others, thus satisfying the tribe's claims for groundwater and surface water rights to water in Arizona, including the Verde River, the Bill Williams River, and the Colorado River."},{"k":"p","t":"The act outlines the tribe's water rights, including the right to divert, use, and store 4,000 acre-feet of agricultural priority water of the Central Arizona Project that was previously allocated to nontribal agricultural entities, but retained by the Department of the Interior for reallocation to tribes in Arizona pursuant to the Central Arizona Project Settlement Act of 2004. Interior must reallocate this priority water to the tribe, firm through 2107 a specified amount of the water, and enter into a water delivery contract with the tribe."},{"k":"p","t":"The act directs Interior to establish the Hualapai Water Trust Fund Account. Amounts deposited in the trust fund account shall be made available to the tribe for specified purposes, including to construct the Hualapai Water Project. The project must be designed to divert, treat, and convey up to 3,414 acre-feet of water per year from the Colorado River for municipal, commercial, and industrial uses on the Hualapai Reservation."},{"k":"p","t":"Additionally, the act establishes in the Treasury the Hualapai Water Settlement Implementation Fund Account. Amounts in this account must be used to carry out groundwater monitoring and an estimate for groundwater withdrawals in the Truxton Basin outside the boundaries of the tribe's reservation."},{"k":"p","t":"The act adds certain land in Arizona to the tribe's reservation and also authorizes Interior to take specified land into trust for the benefit of the tribe. In the future, land located outside the reservation may only be taken into trust through an act of Congress."},{"k":"p","t":"The act outlines (1) waivers, releases, and retentions of claims by the tribe and the United States under the settlement agreement; and (2) a limited waiver of sovereign immunity by the United States and the tribe with respect to certain claims."},{"k":"p","t":"The act repeals the settlement agreement (except for provisions related to land added to the reservation and land taken into trust) if Interior does not publish by April 15, 2029, a statement of findings that specified conditions have been fulfilled (including that Interior has executed the required water delivery contract)."}],"words":392},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Approves and ratifies the Hualapai Tribe water rights settlement agreement in Arizona, resolves the water rights claims of the Hualapai Tribe and certain allottees, and authorizes funding for a Hualapai water project.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/text/enr#id6b6e43f29c0c49b29e2ef8561dcbeb72"},{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/text/enr#id4c6630ef741f414a98b28552d30bfdf1:~:text=4.%20Ratification%20and%20execution%20of%20hualapai%20tribe"},{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/text/enr#id30beee30ba2e4ffbb12878757cc847fa:~:text=6.%20Hualapai%20water%20trust%20fund%20account"},{"label":"Sec. 9","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/text/enr#id8d44b7b0d3e44ec6a4e191e9934ef808"}]},"core_areas":["Ratification of the Hualapai Tribe water rights settlement agreement","Hualapai Tribe water rights held in trust","Central Arizona Project water reallocation and delivery contract","Hualapai Water Trust Fund Account and Hualapai Water Project","Waivers and releases of water rights claims","Land added to the Hualapai Reservation and taken into trust"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Authorizes, ratifies and confirms the Hualapai Tribe water rights settlement agreement to the extent it does not conflict with the Act, and directs the Secretary of the Interior to execute it.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/text/enr#id4c6630ef741f414a98b28552d30bfdf1:~:text=4.%20Ratification%20and%20execution%20of%20hualapai%20tribe"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary, on the Enforceability Date, to reallocate to the Hualapai Tribe 4,000 acre-feet per year of Central Arizona Project non-Indian agricultural priority water and to enter into a water delivery contract with the Tribe.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 13","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/text/enr#id15346077eac247e7ad11c7e4476fba09:~:text=13.%20Reallocation%20of%20CAP%20NIA%20priority%20water"}},{"text":"Establishes the Hualapai Water Trust Fund Account, whose amounts the Tribe uses to plan, design and construct the Hualapai Water Project to divert, treat and convey up to 3,414 AFY of Colorado River water for use on the Hualapai Reservation.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/text/enr#id30beee30ba2e4ffbb12878757cc847fa:~:text=6.%20Hualapai%20water%20trust%20fund%20account"}},{"text":"Authorizes appropriations of $312,000,000 for deposit in the Hualapai Water Trust Fund Account and $5,000,000 for the Hualapai Water Settlement Implementation Fund Account.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 7","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/text/enr#id1e8532f846f443d49047ba7fb6cf6db3:~:text=7.%20Authorizations%20of%20appropriations"}},{"text":"Authorizes the Hualapai Tribe and the United States to waive and release specified water rights claims, effective on the Enforceability Date, while the Tribe and the United States retain the rights to enforce the settlement and other listed claims.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 9","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/text/enr#id8d44b7b0d3e44ec6a4e191e9934ef808"}},{"text":"Repeals the Act, except the land provisions, if the Secretary does not publish the required statement of findings in the Federal Register by April 15, 2029, or a later date agreed to by the Tribe, the Secretary and the State.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 14","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/text/enr#idbbf4ed8b86dd41eca73eeef1ee0a5a75:~:text=14.%20Enforceability%20date"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/text/enr#id4c6630ef741f414a98b28552d30bfdf1:~:text=4.%20Ratification%20and%20execution%20of%20hualapai%20tribe"},"heading":"Ratification and execution of hualapai tribe water rights settlement agreement","effect":"Provides that the Secretary's execution of the Hualapai Tribe water rights settlement agreement is not a major action under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.","amount":null,"quote":"The execution of the Hualapai Tribe water rights settlement agreement by the Secretary under this section shall not constitute a major action for purposes of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.)."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 9","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/text/enr#id8d44b7b0d3e44ec6a4e191e9934ef808"},"heading":"Waivers, releases, and retentions of claims","effect":"Authorizes the United States, on behalf of the Department of the Interior, to waive and release claims against Freeport for past, present and certain future injury to water rights under the Bill Williams River phase 2 agreement.","amount":null,"quote":"is authorized to execute a waiver and release of all claims of the United States against Freeport under Federal, State, or any other law for—"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 13","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/text/enr#id15346077eac247e7ad11c7e4476fba09:~:text=13.%20Reallocation%20of%20CAP%20NIA%20priority%20water"},"heading":"Reallocation of CAP NIA priority water; firming; water delivery contract; Colorado River accounting","effect":"Provides that no property tax or in-lieu tax equivalency is due from the Hualapai Tribe for delivery or storage of CAP water, and that CAP construction costs and capital charges for Hualapai Tribe CAP water are nonreimbursable.","amount":null,"quote":"No property tax or in-lieu property tax equivalency shall be due or payable by the Hualapai Tribe for the delivery of CAP water or for the storage of CAP water in an underground storage facility or groundwater savings facility."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 15","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/text/enr#id4e83ba6ddf63443fb6fc225a9e554bef"},"heading":"Administration","effect":"Provides that the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 and any other acreage limitation or full-cost pricing provision of Federal law do not apply to any person, entity, or tract of land solely because of benefits under this Act or the use of CAP water.","amount":null,"quote":"The Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 (43 U.S.C. 390aa et seq.) and any other acreage limitation or full-cost pricing provision of Federal law shall not apply to any person, entity, or tract of land solely on the basis of—"}]}],"version":{"type":"Enrolled Bill","date":null,"rule":"enrolled","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/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/4104","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4104/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-s-4104.png","v":"e303c762bafc","alt":"Votes on Record. S. 4104, 117th Congress: Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022. House: 360 Yea, 55 Nay. Senate: unanimous consent. Outcome: Became law, 5 Jan 2023."}}