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S. 140: A bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in the WMAT Settlement Fund.

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The text of the bill below is as of Jan 10, 2018 (Passed the House with an Amendment).

115th CONGRESS

2d Session

In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

January 10, 2018

AMENDMENT:

That the bill from the Senate (S. 140) entitled An Act to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in the WMAT Settlement Fund., do pass with the following

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:

1.

Use of funds in WMAT Settlement Fund for WMAT rural water system

(a)

Authorization of WMAT rural water system

Section 307(a) of the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–291; 124 Stat. 3080) is amended in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by inserting , (b)(2), after subsections (a).

(b)

Funding

Section 312(b)(2)(C)(i)(III) of the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–291; 124 Stat. 3093) is amended by striking the period at the end and inserting the following: , including the planning, design, and construction of the WMAT rural water system, in accordance with section 307(a)..

2.

Expansion of pueblo of Santa Clara land eligible for 99-year lease

Subsection (a) of the first section of the Act of August 9, 1955 (commonly known as the Long-Term Leasing Act) (25 U.S.C. 415(a)), is amended—

(1)

by striking Indians,, and inserting Indians,;

(2)

by inserting Ohkay Owingeh pueblo, after Cochiti,;

(3)

by inserting the pueblo of Santa Clara, after Pojoaque,;

(4)

by striking the the lands and inserting the land;

(5)

by striking lands held in trust for the Pueblo of Santa Clara,; and

(6)

by striking lands held in trust for Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo.

3.

Definition of employer

Section 2 of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 152) is amended—

(1)

in paragraph (2), by inserting or any Indian tribe, or any enterprise or institution owned and operated by an Indian tribe and located on its Indian lands, after subdivision thereof,; and

(2)

by adding at the end the following:

(15)

The term Indian tribe means any Indian tribe, band, nation, pueblo, or other organized group or community which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.

(16)

The term Indian means any individual who is a member of an Indian tribe.

(17)

The term Indian lands means—

(A)

all lands within the limits of any Indian reservation;

(B)

any lands title to which is either held in trust by the United States for the benefit of any Indian tribe or Indian or held by any Indian tribe or Indian subject to restriction by the United States against alienation; and

(C)

any lands in the State of Oklahoma that are within the boundaries of a former reservation (as defined by the Secretary of the Interior) of a federally recognized Indian tribe.

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Karen L. Haas

Clerk.