PUBLIC LAW 106-382—OCT. 27, 2000 114 STAT. 1457 (3) a time schedule for implementing the measures and this Act to meet the water conservation objectives. (b) PURPOSE.— The water conservation plan under subsection (a) shall be designed to ensure that users of water from the Assiniboine and Sioux Rural Water System and the Dry Prairie Rural Water System will use the best practicable technology and management techniques to conserve water. (c) PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.—Section 210(c) of the Reclamation Applicability. Reform Act of 1982 (43 U.S.C. 390jj(c)) shall apply to an activity authorized under this Act. SEC. 8. WATER RIGHTS. (a) IN GENERAL. — T his Act does not— (1) impair the validity of or preempt any provision of State water law or any interstate compact governing water; (2) alter the right of any State to any appropriated share of the water of any body of surface or ground water, whether determined by any past or future interstate compact or by any past or future legislative or final judicial allocation; (3) preempt or modify any Federal or State law or interstate compact concerning water quality or disposal; (4) confer on any non-Federal entity the authority to exercise any Federal right to the water of any stream or to any ground water resource; (5) afTect any right of the Fort Peck Tribes to water, located within or outside the external boundaries of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, based on a treaty, compact, executive order, agreement. Act of Congress, aboriginal title, the decision in Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564 (1908) (commonly known as the "Winters Doctrine"), or other law; or (6) validate or invalidate any assertion of the existence, nonexistence, or extinguishment of any water right held or Indian water compact entered into by the Fort Peck Tribes or by any other Indian tribe or individual Indian under Federal or State law. (b) OFFSET AGAINST CLAIMS.— Any funds received by the Fort Peck Tribes pursuant to this Act shall be used to offset any claims for money damages against the United States by the Fort Peck Tribes, existing on the date of the enactment of this Act, for water rights based on a treaty, compact, executive order, agreement. Act of Congress, aboriginal title, the decision in Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564 (1908), or other law. SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. (a) ASSINIBOINE AND SlOUX RURAL WATER SYSTEM. —There are authorized to be appropriated— (1) to the Bureau of Reclamation over a period of 10 fiscal years, $124,000,000 for the planning, design, and construction of the Assiniboine and Sioux Rural Water System; and (2) to the Bureau of Indian Affairs such sums as are necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Assiniboine and Sioux Rural Water System. (b) DRY PRAIRIE RURAL WATER SYSTEM.—There is authorized to be appropriated, over a period of 10 fiscal years, $51,000,000 for the planning, design, and construction of the Dry Prairie Rural Water System.
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