Bill > HR7240

This bill aims to achieve a fair, equitable, and final settlement of claims to water rights in the State of Montana for the Fort Belknap Indian Community. The key provisions of the bill include: - Ratifying and authorizing the execution of the Fort Belknap-Montana water rights compact, which settles the Tribal water rights. - Confirming the Tribal water rights and establishing them as being held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Fort Belknap Indian Community and allottees. - Authorizing the Secretary to allocate 20,000 acre-feet per year of water from Lake Elwell to the Fort Belknap Indian Community for any beneficial purpose. - Requiring the Secretary to rehabilitate, modernize, and expand the Fort Belknap Indian Irrigation Project and to carry out mitigation activities for the Milk River Project. - Establishing the Aaniiih Nakoda Settlement Trust Fund to provide funding for various water-related activities and projects for the Fort Belknap Indian Community. - Authorizing appropriations to fund the implementation of the compact and the Act, including mandatory appropriations. - Providing for the exchange and transfer of certain federal and state land to the Fort Belknap Indian Community. - Requiring the Secretary to take tribal fee land into trust for the benefit of the Fort Belknap Indian Community.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

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