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<meta><dc:title>Public Law 115–227: To amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in the WMAT Settlement Fund.</dc:title>
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<preface><centerRunningHead>PUBLIC LAW 115–227—AUG. 1, 2018</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/132/1626">132 STAT. 1626</page>
<dc:type>Public Law</dc:type><docNumber>115–227</docNumber>
<congress value="115">115th Congress</congress>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize12" style="-uslm-lc:I658005">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I658011">To amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in the WMAT Settlement Fund.<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8" id="x4536e9c4-e836-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658076"><approvedDate date="2018-08-01">Aug. 1, 2018</approvedDate></p><p class="centered fontsize8" id="x4536e9c5-e836-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658076">[<ref href="/us/bill/115/s/2850">S. 2850</ref>]<?GPOvSpace 08?></p></sidenote></officialTitle>
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<section id="d306368e85" identifier="/us/pl/115/227/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I658146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>USE OF FUNDS IN WMAT SETTLEMENT FUND FOR WMAT RURAL WATER SYSTEM.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y453710d6-e836-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" identifier="/us/pl/115/227/s1/a" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Authorization of WMAT Rural Water System</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 307(a) of the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 (<ref href="/us/pl/111/291">Public Law 111–291</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/124/3080">124 Stat. 3080</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>, (b)(2),</quotedText>” after “<quotedText>subsections (a)</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
<subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y453710d7-e836-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" identifier="/us/pl/115/227/s1/b" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Funding</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 312(b)(2)(C)(i)(III) of the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 (<ref href="/us/pl/111/291">Public Law 111–291</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/124/3093">124 Stat. 3093</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following: “<quotedText>, including the planning, design, and construction of the WMAT rural water system, in accordance with section 307(a).</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
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<section id="d306368e137" identifier="/us/pl/115/227/s2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I658141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>EXPANSION OF PUEBLO OF SANTA CLARA LAND ELIGIBLE FOR 99-YEAR LEASE.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="x45375ef8-e836-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Subsection (a) of the first section of the Act of August 9, 1955 (commonly known as the “Long-Term Leasing Act”) (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s415/a">25 U.S.C. 415(a)</ref>), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="y45375ef9-e836-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" identifier="/us/pl/115/227/s2/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Indians,,</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Indians,</quotedText>”;</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="fontsize10" id="y45375efa-e836-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" identifier="/us/pl/115/227/s2/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Ohkay Owingeh pueblo,</quotedText>” after “<quotedText>Cochiti,</quotedText>”;</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="fontsize10" id="y45375efb-e836-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" identifier="/us/pl/115/227/s2/3" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the pueblo of Santa Clara,</quotedText>” after “<quotedText>Pojoaque,</quotedText>”;</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="fontsize10" id="y45375efc-e836-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" identifier="/us/pl/115/227/s2/4" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="4">(4) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the the lands</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the land</quotedText>”;</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="fontsize10" id="y45375efd-e836-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" identifier="/us/pl/115/227/s2/5" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="5">(5) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>lands held in trust for the Pueblo of Santa Clara,</quotedText>”; and<page identifier="/us/stat/132/1627">132 STAT. 1627</page></content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="fontsize10" id="y45375efe-e836-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" identifier="/us/pl/115/227/s2/6" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="6">(6) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>lands held in trust for Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph>
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<actionDescription style="-uslm-lc:I658030">Approved</actionDescription> <date date="2018-08-01">August 1, 2018</date>.</action>
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658031"><inline class="underline">LEGISLATIVE HISTORY</inline>—<ref href="/us/bill/115/s/2850">S. 2850</ref>:</heading>
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658032">CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 164 (2018):</heading>
<p class="indentUp4 firstIndent-1" id="x45375eff-e836-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658035">July 18, considered and passed Senate.</p><p class="indentUp4 firstIndent-1" id="x45375f00-e836-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658035">July 23, considered and passed House.</p></note>
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