Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025

This bill amends the Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Act. It creates two new trust funds in the U.S. Treasury for Taos Pueblo: $190 million for groundwater production, treatment, and delivery infrastructure, and $16 million for surface water sharing infrastructure and gages, with amounts adjusted for construction cost changes since July 2025. It also provides $161 million, adjusted for costs, for grants to eligible non-Pueblo entities to build Mutual-Benefit Projects, including a Mitigation Well System. Those grants must meet spending and construction deadlines, and the Commissioner of Reclamation may end grants, require unspent funds to be returned, or fund alternative or interim offset infrastructure if deadlines are missed.

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• Teresa Leger Fernandez Democrat sponsor
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