Yavapai-Apache Nation Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025

This bill approves a water rights settlement between the Yavapai-Apache Nation, the United States, Arizona, and other parties, and confirms the Nation's water rights, which the United States would hold in trust. It directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to build a pipeline to deliver water from C.C. Cragin Reservoir to the Nation and others in the Verde Valley, and a drinking water treatment and distribution system for the Nation. It requires the Treasury to transfer about $883.5 million for these projects and about $156 million to a trust fund for the Nation's water, wastewater, maintenance, and watershed projects. It also limits use of the Nation's water outside its lands and continues operation of a river flow gage on the reservation.

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Sponsors

• Elijah Crane Republican sponsor
• 2 cosponsors