HR 4598
Cleared committee
Authorizes about $6.36 million, $7.79 million, and $4.31 million in federal appropriations for three New Mexico water settlement funds for Navajo Nation and Pueblo communities, and waives certain Treasury claims on interest earned in one of those funds.
Official title: Technical Corrections to the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act, Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, and Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
22-JUL-2025
Referred
22-JUL-2025
Approved by committee
15-SEP-2026
- Authorizes $6,357,674.46 for deposit into the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund as adjusted interest.
- Authorizes $7,794,297.52 for the Taos Pueblo Water Development Fund and $4,314,709.18 for the Aamodt Settlement Pueblos' Fund.
- Directs the Treasury Secretary to waive payment of interest earned on certain Aamodt Fund amounts before September 15, 2017.
- Confirms that the Act does not affect earlier findings that conditions precedent under the 2010 Claims Resolution Act were satisfied.
Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Introduced in House, 22-JUL-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Natural Resources Committee (House)
Native Americans
No cosponsors.