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Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project Amendments Act of 2023

Introduced: June 8, 2023 Introduced by: Luján, Ben Ray Democratic · New Mexico See on congress.gov
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Dec 4, 2024
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 661.
Dec 4, 2024
Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Schatz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-259.
Nov 15, 2023
Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Jul 12, 2023
Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 118-120.
Jun 8, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Jun 8, 2023
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

What's happening now December 4, 2024

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 661.

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