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 108 STAT. 4578 PUBLIC LAW 103-436—NOV. 2, 1994 Children and youth. land in the generation of electric power, and will continue to use such reservation land for as long as Grand Coulee Dam produces power; and that the United States has promised and undertaken to pay the Tribe for such use and has not done so; (3) the United States, after years of litigation, has negotiated a Settlement Agreement with the Tribe, signed by the Department of Justice, the Bonneville Power Administration and the Department of the Interior. The Settlement Agreement is contingent on the enactment of the enabling legislation; and (4) the Settlement Agreement, approved in this Act, will provide mutually agreeable compensation for the past use of reservation land in connection with the generation of electric power at Grand Coulee Dam, and will establish a method to ensure that the Tribe will be compensated for the future use of reservation land in the generation of electric power at Grand Coulee Dam, and will settle the claims of the Tribe against the United States brought under the Indian Claims Commission Act. (b) PURPOSES. —It is the purpose of this Act— (1) to approve and ratify the Settlement Agreement entered into lay the United States and the Tribe; and (2) to direct the Bonneville Power Administration to carry out its obligations under the Settlement Agreement. SEC. 4. APPROVAL, RATIFICATION, AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. (a) APPROVAL AND RATIFICATION.—The Settlement Agreement is approved and ratified. (b) ANNUAL PAYMENTS.— The Bonneville Power Administration shall make annual payments to the Tribe as set forth in the Settlement Agreement and shall carry out its other obligations under the Settlement Agreement. (c) SETTLEMENT,—Consistent with the negotiated terms of the Settlement Agreement, the United States shall join in the motion that the Tribe has agreed to file in Confederated Tribes v. United States, Indian Claims Commission Docket 181-D, for the entry of a compromise final judgment in the amount of $53,000,000. The judgment shall be paid from funds appropriated pursuant to section 1304 of title 31, United States Code, and is not reimbursable by the Bonneville Power Administration. SEC. 5. DISTRIBUTION OF THE SETTLEMENT FUNDS. (a) LUMP-SUM PAYMENT.— The judgment of $53,000,000, when paid, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and the principal amount and interest on the judgment, shall be credited to the account of the Tribe. These funds may be advanced or expended for any purpose by the tribal governing body of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, pursuant to a distribution plan developed by the Tribe and approved by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to section 3 of Public Law 93-134 (25 U.S.C. 1403): Provided, That any payment to a minor under the distribution plan shall be held in trust by the United States for the minor until the minor reaches the age of 18, or until the minor's class is scheduled to graduate from high school, whichever is later: Provided further, That emergency use of trust funds may

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