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 PUBLIC LAW 102-575—OCT. 30, 1992 106 STAT. 4741 on Federal program funding and achieve meaningful self-determination and self-sufilciency; (6) proceedings to determine the full extent and nature of the Tribe's water rights are currently pending before the United States District Court in Arizona and in the Superior Court of the State of Arizona in and for Maricopa County, as part of the General Ac|judication of the Gila River System and Source; (7) recognizing that final resolution of pending litigation will take many years and entail great expense to all parties, continue economically and socially damaging limits to the IVibe's access to water, prolong uncertainty as to the availability of water supplies and seriously impair the long-term economic planning and development of all parties, the Tribe and its neighboring non-Indian communities have sought to settle their dispute to water and reduce the burdens of litigation; (8) after lengthy negotiations, which included participation by representatives of the United States Government, the Tribe, and neighboring non-Indian communities of the Salt River and Gila River Valleys, who are all party to the General Adjudication of the Gila River System and Source, the parties are prepared to enter into an Agreement to resolve all water rights claims between and among themselves, to quantify the Tribe's entitlement to water, and to provide for the orderly development of the Tribe's lands; (9) pursuant to the Agreement, the neighboring non-Indian communities will relinquish claims to approximately fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-five acre-feet of surface water to the Tribe, provide the means of storing water supplies of the Tribe behind Coolidge Dam on the Gila River in Arizona to enhance fishing, recreation, and other environmental benefits, and make substantial additional contributions to carry out the Agreement's provisions; and (10) to advance the goal of Federal Indian policv and to fulfill the trust responsibility of the United States to the Tribe, it is appropriate that the United States participate in the implementetion of the Agreement and contrioute funds for the rehabilitetion and expansion of existing reservation irrigation facilities so as to enable the Tribe to utilize fully ite water resources in developing a diverse, efficient reservation economy, (b) PURPOSES OF TITLE.—I t is the purpose of this title— (1) to approve, ratify, and confirm the Agreement to be entered into by the Tribe and ite neighboring non-Indian communities, (2) to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to execute and perform such Agreement, and (3) to authorize the actions and appropriations necessary for the United States to fulfill ite legal and trust obligations to the Tribe as provided in the Agreement and this title. SEC. 3703. DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this title: (1) Active conservation capacity" means that storage space, exclusive of bank storage, available to store water which can be released through existing reservoir outlet works. (2) "Agreement" means that agreement among the San Carlos Apache Tribe; the United States of America; the State

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