Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project Amendments Act of 2023
- Last Action
- 12/4/2024
Actions
- 2024-12-04Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 661.
- 2024-12-04Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Schatz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-259.
- 2024-12-04Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Schatz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-259.
- 2023-11-15Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- 2023-07-12Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 118-120.
- 2023-06-08Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
- 2023-06-08Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2023-06-08 (00)
Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project Amendments Act of 2023
This bill extends deadlines and otherwise revises the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project. This project was first authorized by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which settled the Navajo Nation's water rights in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico.
Specifically, the bill extends through December 31, 2029, the deadline for constructing project facilities.
The bill allows for additional project service areas, including by allowing the Navajo Nation to expand the project service area in order to deliver water supply from the project to Lupton, Arizona.
The bill directs the Department of the Interior to take certain land into trust for the benefit of the Navajo Nation.
The bill also establishes (1) the Navajo Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund; and (2) the Jicarilla Apache Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund.
Cosponsors (2)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Mitt Romney (R-UT)
Subjects
- Arizona
- Government trust funds
- Indian lands and resources rights
- Infrastructure development
- Lakes and rivers
- Land transfers
- Land use and conservation
- New Mexico
- Rural conditions and development
- Water resources funding
- Water storage
- Water use and supply
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