Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 104 Part 4.djvu/1005

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PUBLIC LAW 101-618—NOV. 16, 1990 104 STAT. 3321 effect until the funds authorized in paragraph 208(a)(3) of this title have been appropriated. (3) On and after the effective date of section 204 of this title, except as otherwise specifically provided herein, no person or entity who has entered into the Preliminary Settlement Agreement as modified by the Ratification Agreement or the Operating Agreement, or accepted any benefits or payments under this legislation, including any Indian Tribe and the States of California and Nevada, the United States and its officers and agencies may assert in any judicial or administrative proceeding a claim that is inconsistent with the allocations provided in section 204 of this title, or inconsistent or in conflict with the operational criteria for the Truckee River established pursuant to section 205 of this title. No person or entity who does not become a party to the Preliminary Settlement Agreement as modified by the Ratification Agreement or the Operating Agreement may assert in any judicial or administrative proceeding any claim for water or water rights for the Pyramid Lake Tribe, the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, or the Pyramid Lake fishery. Any such claims are hereby barred and extinguished and no court of the United States may hear or consider any such claims by such persons or entities. Qo) GENERAL PROVISIONS. — (1) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection, and to all existing property rights or interests, all of the trust land within the exterior boundaries of the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation shall be permanently held by the United States for the sole use and benefit of the Pyramid Lake Tribe. (2) Anaho Island in its entirety is hereby recognized as part of the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation. In recognition of the consent of the Pjrramid Lake Tribe evidenced by Resolution No. 19-90 of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council, all of Anaho Island shall hereafter be managed and administered by and under the primary jurisdiction of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as an integral component of the National Wildlife Refuge System for the benefit and protection of colonial nesting species and other migratory birds. Anaho Island National Wildlife Refuge shall be managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in accord with the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act, as amended, and other applicable provisions of Federal law. Consistent with the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act, as amended, the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with the Pyramid Lake Tribe regarding Anaho Island National Wildlife Refuge. (3) Subject to the relinquishment by the legislature of the State of Nevada of any claim the State of Nevada may have to ownership of the beds and banks of the Truckee River within the exterior boundaries of the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation and of Pyramid Lake, those beds and banks are recognized as part of the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation and as being held by the United States in trust for the sole use and benefit of the Pyramid Lake Tribe. Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to recognize any right, title, or interest of the State of Nevada in those beds and banks which it would not otherwise