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Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025

Official title: A bill to amend the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010 to make improvements to that Act, and for other purposes.

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What This Bill Does

This bill revises the water rights settlement agreement entered into by the Crow Tribe of Montana and Montana.

The Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010 ratified, authorized, and confirmed the water rights compact between the tribe and Montana. Among other provisions, this settlement act authorized the Bureau of Reclamation to plan, design and construct the following two major projects on the Crow Reservation: (1) the rehabilitation and improvement of the Crow Irrigation Project (CIP); and (2) the planning, design, and construction of the MR&I System (the municipal, rural, and industrial water system of the Crow Reservation).

Among other provisions, the bill revises the settlement act to

  • replace references to the MR&I System with MR&I Projects;
  • establish a nontrust, interest-bearing account (to be known as the Crow CIP Implementation Account) to allow Reclamation to continue to work on the rehabilitation of the CIP;
  • create a new MR&I Projects Account, through which the tribe must use funds for activities related to water production, treatment, or delivery infrastructure; and
  • extend by five years (to 2030) the period during which the tribe has the exclusive right to construct hydropower facilities on the Yellowtail Afterbay Dam in Montana.

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Timeline

  1. House floor actionsPresented to President.
  2. Passed Congress
  3. SenateMessage on Senate action sent to the House.
  4. Library of CongressResolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment to S. 240 by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5020)
  5. SenateSenate agreed to the House amendment to S. 240 by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5020)
  6. SenateMessage on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill.
  7. House floor actionsMr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
  8. SenateMessage on Senate action sent to the House.
  9. House floor actionsReceived in the House.
  10. Library of CongressPassed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
  11. SenatePassed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8691-8692; text: CR S8691-8692)
  12. Floor Vote
  13. SenateCommittee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-93.
  14. SenateCommittee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
  15. Library of CongressIntroduced in Senate
  16. SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
  17. Introduced
  18. Committee

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