S 640
Passed a chamber
Authorizes additional federal payments into three water trust funds for Navajo Nation and New Mexico Pueblo water settlements and makes technical corrections to the laws that created them.
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
Received
15-DEC-2025
Senate
Introduced
19-FEB-2025
Referred
19-FEB-2025
Approved by committee
05-MAR-2025
Reported
04-NOV-2025
On the calendar
04-NOV-2025
Passed
11-DEC-2025
- Authorizes $6,357,674.46 for deposit into the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund, in addition to amounts already provided under the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009.
- Authorizes $7,794,297.52 for the Taos Pueblo Water Development Fund and $4,314,709.18 for the Aamodt Settlement Pueblos' Fund, which pays for operating, maintaining, and replacing Pueblo water facilities and the Regional Water System.
- Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to waive payment of certain interest earned on Aamodt settlement amounts before September 15, 2017.
- States that the Act does not change the earlier satisfaction of settlement conditions or the validity of the 2016 and 2017 Secretarial findings, and authorizes appropriation of investment earnings credited to these trust funds.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in Senate" (19-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in Senate, 11-DEC-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Indian Affairs Committee (Senate)
Native Americans
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1 Democrat