114 STAT. 2908 PUBLIC LAW 106-568—DEC. 27, 2000 (11) The Indian Suit has been stayed by the district court to facilitate settlement negotiations. (b) PURPOSE. — The purpose of this title is to facilitate and implement the settlement agreement negotiated and executed by the parties to the U.S. Suit and Indian Suit for the purpose of resolving their conflicting claims to their mutual satisfaction and in the public interest. 25 USC 1778a. SEC. 603. DEFINITIONS. For the purposes of this title: (1) TRIBE.— The term "Tribe" means the Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, a federally recognized Indian tribe with a reservation located in Riverside and Imperial Counties, California. (2) ALLOTTEES. —The term "allottees" means those individual Tribe members, their successors, heirs, and assigns, who have individual ownership of allotted Indian trust lands within the Torres-Martinez Indian Reservation. (3) SALTON SEA.— The term "Salton Sea" means the inland body of water located in Riverside and Imperial Counties which serves as a drainage reservoir for water from precipitation, natural runoff, irrigation return flows, wastewater, floods, and other inflow from within its watershed area. (4) SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. — The term "Settlement Agreement" means the Agreement of Compromise and Settlement Concerning Claims to the Lands of the United States Within and on the Perimeter of the Salton Sea Drainage Reservoir Held in Trust for the Torres-Martinez Indians executed on June 18, 1996, as modified by the first, second, third, and fourth modifications thereto. (5) SECRETARY.— The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior. (6) PERMANENT FLOWAGE EASEMENT. — The term "permanent flowage easement" means the perpetual right by the water districts to use the described lands in the Salton Sink within and below the minus 220-foot contour as a drainage reservoir to receive and store water from their respective water and drainage systems, including flood water, return flows from irrigation, tail water, leach water, operational spills, and any other water which overflows and floods such lands, originating from lands within such water districts. 25 USC 1778b. SEC. 604. RATIFICATION OF SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. The United States hereby approves, ratifies, and confirms the Settlement Agreement. 25 USC 1778c. SEC. 605. SETTLEMENT FUNDS. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF TRIBAL AND ALLOTTEES SETTLEMENT TRUST FUNDS ACCOUNTS.— (1) IN GENERAL.— There are established in the Treasury of the United States three settlement trust fund accounts to be known as the 'Torres-Martinez Settlement Trust Funds Account", the 'Torres-Martinez Allottees Settlement Account I", and the 'Torres-Martinez Allottees Settlement Account 11", respectively. (2) AVAILABILITY. —Amounts held in the Torres-Martinez Settlement Trust Funds Account, the Torres-Martinez Allottees
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