Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to contract with the Harquahala Valley Irrigation District for the permanent relinquishment of any portion of its rights to Central Arizona Project (CAP) agricultural water. Allows the Secretary to use such water with its original CAP agricultural priority or to convert it to a specified maximum acre-feet amount of CAP Indian priority water.
Requires the Secretary to use such water in Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima Counties to settle water rights claims involving the United States, Indian communities, and appropriate third parties with priority to the Fort McDowell Indian Community and other tribes having claims to the surface water of the Salt and Verde River system.
Authorizes the Secretary to provide credit and offset repayment requirements for the Harquahala District and the Central Arizona Water Conservation District as consideration for the fair market value of such water rights.
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Executive Comment Received from Interior.
Committee Hearings Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. H. Rept. 101-496.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. H. Rept. 101-496.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 303.
Mr. Udall moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Mr. Rhodes demanded a second on the motion to suspend the rules.
Considered under suspension of the rules.
On ordering a second Agreed to without objection.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Referred to Subcommittee on Water and Power.
See H.R.5063.
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