PUBLIC LAW 101-618—NOV. 16, 1990 104 STAT. 3289 Public Law 101-618 101st Congress An Act To provide for the settlement of water rights claims of the Fallon Paiute Shoshone Indian Tribes and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I—FALLON PAIUTE SHOSHONE TRIBAL SETTLEMENT ACT SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the "Fallon Paiute Shoshone Indian Tribes Water Rights Settlement Act of 1990". SEC. 102. SETTLEMENT FUND. (A) There is hereby established within the Treasury of the United States, the "Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribal Settlement Fund", hereinafter referred to in the Act as the "Fund". (B) There is authorized to be appropriated to the Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribal Settlement Fund $3,000,000 in fiscal year 1992, and $8,000,000 in each year for fiscal years 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 for a total sum of $43,000,000. (C)(1) The income of the Fund may be obligated and expended only for the following purposes: (a) Tribal economic development, including development of long-term profit-making opportunities for the Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribes (hereinafter referred to in the Act as "Tribes") and its tribal members, and the development of employment opportunities for tribal members; (b) Tribal governmental services and facilities; (c) Per capita distributions to tribal members; (d) Rehabilitation and betterment of the irrigation system on the Fallon Paiute Shoshone Indian Reservation (hereinafter referred to in the Act as "Reservation") not including lands added to the Reservation pursuant to the provisions of Public Law 95-337, 92 Stat. 455; (e) Acquisition of lands, water rights or related property interests located outside the Reservation from willing sellers, and improvement of such lands; (f) Acquisition of individually-owned land, water rights or related property interests on the Reservation from willing sellers, including those held in trust by the United States. (2) Except as provided in subsection (C)(3) of this section, the principal of the Fund shall not be obligated or expended. (3) In obligating and expending funds for the purposes set forth in subsections (C)(1)(d), (C)(1)(e) and (C)(1)(f) of this section, the Tribes may obligate and expend no more than 20 percent of the principal of the Fund, provided that any amounts so obligated and expended from principal must be restored to the principal from repayments of Nov. 16, 1990 [S. 3084] Fallon Paiute Shoshone Indian Tribes Water Rights Settlement Act of 1990. Nevada. Intergovernmental relations. Appropriation authorization.
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