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[S. 240 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.240

                     One Hundred Nineteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Saturday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and twenty six


                                 An Act


 
  To amend the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010 to make 
            improvements to that Act, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement 
Amendments Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. CROW TRIBE WATER RIGHTS SETTLEMENT.
    (a) Definitions.--Section 403 of the Crow Tribe Water Rights 
Settlement Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-291; 124 Stat. 3097) is 
amended--
        (1) by striking paragraph (11) and inserting the following:
        ``(11) MR&I project.--The term `MR&I Project' means an activity 
    described in clauses (i) through (iii) of section 411(e)(3)(F).''; 
    and
        (2) in paragraph (12)--
            (A) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``System'' and 
        inserting ``Projects''; and
            (B) in subparagraphs (A) through (C), by striking 
        ``System'' each place it appears and inserting ``Projects''.
    (b) Repeal of MR&I System.--
        (1) In general.--Section 406 of the Crow Tribe Water Rights 
    Settlement Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-291; 124 Stat. 3102) is 
    repealed.
        (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of contents for the Claims 
    Resolution Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-291; 124 Stat. 3064) is 
    amended by striking the item relating to section 406.
    (c) Crow Settlement Fund.--Section 411 of the Crow Tribe Water 
Rights Settlement Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-291; 124 Stat. 3113) is 
amended--
        (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``to be administered by the 
    Secretary'' and inserting ``to be managed, invested, and 
    distributed by the Secretary and to remain available until 
    expended, withdrawn, or reverted to the general fund of the 
    Treasury, consisting of amounts deposited in the Fund under 
    subsection (b), together with any investment earnings, including 
    interest, earned on those amounts,'';
        (2) in subsection (c)--
            (A) in paragraph (3), by striking ``System'' and inserting 
        ``Projects''; and
            (B) by adding at the end the following:
        ``(5)(A) The MR&I Projects Account, to be established as soon 
    as practicable after the date of enactment of the Crow Tribe Water 
    Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025, consisting of--
                ``(i) amounts made available pursuant to paragraphs (1) 
            and (2) of section 414(b) that are appropriated after the 
            date of enactment of the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement 
            Amendments Act of 2025; and
                ``(ii) amounts to be deposited pursuant to section 
            414(h)(2).
        ``(B) Amounts deposited into the MR&I Projects Account shall be 
    further deposited into the special joint signature account named 
    `MR&I Account' established pursuant to the agreement with the Tribe 
    dated September 13, 2012, prior to any investment earnings accruing 
    or becoming available.'''';
        (3) in subsection (e)--
            (A) in paragraph (2), by striking subparagraph (C) and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(C) the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act 
        of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.).''; and
            (B) in paragraph (3)--
                (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``through (E)'' 
            and inserting ``through (F)'';
                (ii) in subparagraph (E)--

                    (I) in the subparagraph heading, by striking 
                ``System'' and inserting ``Projects''; and
                    (II) by striking ``System'' each place it appears 
                and inserting ``Projects''; and

                (iii) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(F) MR&I projects account.--Funds from the MR&I Projects 
        Account shall be used for expenditures by the Tribe in 
        accordance with the following:
                ``(i) Priority use of funds.--The Tribe shall use funds 
            from the MR&I Projects Account--

                    ``(I) to plan, permit, design, engineer, construct, 
                reconstruct, replace, rehabilitate, operate, or repair 
                water production, treatment, or delivery 
                infrastructure, including for domestic and municipal 
                use or wastewater infrastructure; and
                    ``(II) to comply with applicable environmental laws 
                for the activities described in subclause (I).

                ``(ii) Other use of funds.--After providing written 
            notice to the Secretary that on-Reservation MR&I projects 
            described in clause (i) are complete, the Tribe may use 
            funds remaining in the MR&I Projects Account to purchase 
            on-Reservation land with water rights.''; and
        (4) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(i) Title to Infrastructure.--Title to, control over, and 
operation of any project constructed using funds from the MR&I Projects 
Account shall remain in the Tribe.
    ``(j) Operation, Maintenance, and Replacement.--The Federal 
Government shall have no obligation to pay for the operation, 
maintenance, or replacement of any MR&I Project.''.
    (d) Yellowtail Dam, Montana.--Subsection (b)(1) of section 412 of 
the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-291; 
124 Stat. 3116) is amended by striking ``15 years'' and inserting ``20 
years''.
    (e) Funding.--Section 414 of the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement 
Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-291; 124 Stat. 3120) is amended in 
subsection (e)--
        (1) in the subsection heading, by striking ``System'' and 
    inserting ``Projects''; and
        (2) by striking ``System'' and inserting ``Projects''.
    (f) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--
        (1) Section 403(9) of the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement 
    Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-291; 124 Stat. 3098) is amended by 
    striking ``(25 U.S.C. 450b)'' and inserting ``(25 U.S.C. 5304)''.
        (2) Section 410(e)(1) of the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement 
    Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-291; 124 Stat. 3112) is amended in 
    subparagraph (C), by striking ``agreements with the Tribe required 
    by sections 405(a) and 406(a)'' and inserting ``agreement with the 
    Tribe required by section 405(a)''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.