S. 3168A 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.

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Sponsor: Mark Kelly [D-AZ]
Cosponsors: 1 · 1 Democrat
Policy area: Native Americans
Committee: Indian Affairs Committee
Latest action: Jan 5, 2023 · Became Public Law No: 117-342.

IntroducedNov 4, 2021
Passed the SenateDec 19, 2022
Passed the HouseDec 21, 2022
Sent to the PresidentDec 28, 2022
Became lawJan 5, 2023

What the measure doesCRS summary

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.)

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).

The act makes changes to cost indexing for the funds and subaccounts established under the quantification act, including by allowing adjustments for construction costs.

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.

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.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing S. 3168 as public Law on Jan 5, 2023. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.

How every member votedHouse roll call 537

House Dec 21, 2022

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

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

Passed · Two-thirds required

378 Yea 33 Nay 19 not voting

Crossed both parties 33 of 411 voting members broke with their own party: 33 Republicans.

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Democratic217 members

Republican213 members

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Cosponsors1 · 1 Democrat

Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor S. 3168 and vote against it. 1 signed when it was filed.

DKyrsten Sinema [D-AZ]Original

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S. 3168A 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.

What the measure doesCRS summary

How every member votedHouse roll call 537

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

How the chamber split

Cosponsors1 · 1 Democrat

S. 3168A 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.

What the measure doesCRS summary

How every member votedHouse roll call 537

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

How the chamber split

Cosponsors1 · 1 Democrat

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