Skip to content
PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

United States · Bill · S

S. 3013 (114th)

Salish and Kootenai Water Rights Settlement Act of 2016

openUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

26 May 2016

Last action

29 June 2016 · Committee

Status

Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 114-401.

Sponsors

Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

12 August 2025

Official sourceDownload fileView documentsShare

Summary

Salish and Kootenai Water Rights Settlement Act of 2016 This bill authorizes, ratifies, and confirms a specified water rights settlement entered into by the United States, Montana, and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation of Montana. Specified claims of the tribes against the United States are waived and released. The Department of the Interior shall allocate specified amounts of storage water in Hungry Horse Reservoir for use by the tribes. In addition, the bill: (1) establishes provisions related to the development of hydroelectric power within the reservation; (2) requires the Bureau of Reclamation to carry out specified activities related to the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project; (3) establishes, for purposes of carrying out the bill, the Selis-Qlispe Ksanka Settlement Trust Fund and the Salish and Kootenai Compact Fund; and (4) confirms certain instream flow water rights of the tribes.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

  1. 26 May 2016

    Introduced

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

    Source: IntroReferral

  2. 26 May 2016

    Introduced

    Introduced in Senate

    Source: IntroReferral

  3. 29 June 2016

    Committee

    Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 114-401.

    Source: Committee

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

Documents

3 official files

Introduced in Senate (text)

View fileDownload file

This file cannot be previewed here. Use View or Download.

Leesvertaling

Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.

Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.

  • Introduced in Senate (text)

    Introduced in Senate · EN · 26 May 2016

    ViewDownloadOpen at official source

  • Introduced in Senate (PDF)

    Introduced in Senate · EN · 26 May 2016

    ViewDownloadOpen at official source

    Leesvertaling

    Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.

    Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.

  • Introduced in Senate

    summary · EN · 26 May 2016

    Open at official source

    Leesvertaling

    Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.

    Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.

Sponsors

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.