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Allowing Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Fort Peck Indian Reservation to Enter into a Lease or Other Temporary Conveyance of Water Rights

Date: June 16, 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Natural Resources


ALLOWING ASSINIBOINE AND SIOUX TRIBES OF FORT PECK INDIAN RESERVATION TO ENTER INTO A LEASE OR OTHER TEMPORARY CONVEYANCE OF WATER RIGHTS -- (House of Representatives - May 16, 2006)

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Mr. RADANOVICH. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

H.R. 2978, introduced by our colleague DENNIS REHBERG of Montana, allows two Fort Peck Indian Reservation Tribes to lease water to nearby nonIndian communities.

In northeastern Montana, water supplies are very scarce. For this reason Congress authorized a rural water supply protection for the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and some of its neighbors a few years ago. As the project is now under construction, water users realize that the underlying law needs to be clarified in order to ensure a water transfer. This bill makes this commonsense clarification on the Federal level. The State Water Commission has already approved the conveyance, and I urge my colleagues to support this noncontroversial bill.

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