HR 726
Advanced toward a vote
Amends the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010 to replace its municipal, rural, and industrial water system with a tribal projects account, and changes several related funding and cost provisions.
Official title: Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
24-JAN-2025
Referred
24-JAN-2025
Approved by committee
15-JUL-2026
Reported
27-AUG-2026
On the calendar
27-AUG-2026
- Repeals Section 406 of the 2010 Act, which set up the MR&I System, and renames the remaining MR&I provisions to refer to projects instead of a system.
- Creates an MR&I Projects Account in the Crow Settlement Fund for water and wastewater infrastructure, and allows the Tribe to use leftover funds to buy on-Reservation land with water rights once those projects are complete.
- Keeps title and control of projects built with the account in the Tribe and states the federal government has no obligation to pay for their operation, maintenance, or replacement.
- Changes a 15-year period to 20 years in the provision on Yellowtail Dam in Montana.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (24-JAN-2025); the text has changed since (Reported in House, 27-AUG-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Natural Resources Committee (House)
Native Americans
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