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S. Rept. 119-93 1 (2025-11-04)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxahvy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION 4 Calendar No. 260 119TH CONGRESS N E REPORT 1st Session SENATE 119-93 CROW TRIBE WATER RIGHTS SETTLEMENT AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2025 NOVEMBER 4, 2025.-Ordered to be printed Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 240] The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill (S. 240) to amend the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010 to make improvements to that Act, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. PURPOSE S. 240 amends the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010 to update the infrastructure, funding, and administrative mechanisms of the settlement so the Tribe can more efficiently build and maintain water and related systems on its reservation as part of its ratified Crow Tribe-Montana Water Rights Compact en- tered into by the Crow Tribe and the State of Montana on June 22, 1999 to settle all existing water rights claims of the Crow Tribe in the State of Montana. BACKGROUND AND NEED The Crow Tribe is a federally recognized Tribe with a reservation that spans approximately 2.3 million acres in south-central Mon- tana. The Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010 (CTWRSA), enacted as part of the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 (CRA),1 settled the Crow Tribe's and its allottees' water rights and authorized $460 million for the Crow Tribe to design and construct a Municipal, Rural and Industrial water system (MR&I System); 'Claims Resolution Act of 2010, Pub. L. No. 111-291, §401 et seq., 124 Stat. 3064, 3097 (2010) (codified at 31 U.S.C. 1101 note). 69-010