Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025

This bill amends the 2010 Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Act in New Mexico. It creates two new trust funds in the U.S. Treasury that Taos Pueblo may use for groundwater infrastructure and for surface water sharing infrastructure and gages, funded at $190 million and $16 million, adjusted for construction costs. It also provides $161 million, adjusted for construction costs, for the Bureau of Reclamation to give non-Pueblo entities grants for shared water projects, including a system of wells to offset surface water depletion. The bill sets spending and construction deadlines for these grants and lets the Bureau end grants, recover unspent funds, or fund alternative offset projects if deadlines are missed.

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Sponsors

• Ben Ray Luján Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors