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PUBLIC LAW 91-557-DEC. 17, 1970

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Public Law 91-557 AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to approve an agreement entered into by the Soboba Band of Mission Indians releasing a claim against the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and Eastern Municipal Water District, California, and to provide for construction of a water distribution system and a water supply for the Soboba Indian Reservation; and to authorize long-term leases of land on the reservation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to approve a release agreement to be negotiated by and between the Soboba Band of Mission Indians, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, hereinafter called Metropolitan, and the Eastern Municipal Water District, hereinafter called Eastern, which provides among other things that— (a) Metropolitan shall pay to the Secretary of the Interior for the use and benefit of the Soboba Indians the sum of $30,000. Payment shall be made when the lands that comprise the Soboba Indian Reservation have been annexed to Metropolitan and to Eastern. The annexation shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the release agreement and the annexation and water service agreement to be executed pursuant to section 2 of this Act. (b) The Soboba Band of Mission Indians releases Metropolitan and and Eastern, their successors or assigns, from all claim it may have based on past, present, or future actual or claimed damage to, or interference with, theflowof waters from the springs on the Soboba Indian Reservation lands, or on actual or claimed interference with, or damage to, the water supply to or upon the lands of the Soboba Indian Reservation, which claims arise from construction and operation of a certain tunnel through the San Jacinto mountains constructed in the 1930's. (c) The release agreement shall be effective upon the completion of the concurrent annexation of the Soboba Indian Reservation lands to Metropolitan and Eastern and upon the execution of an annexation and water service agreement authorized by section 2 of this Act. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior and the Soboba Band of Indians are authorized to enter into an annexation and water service agreement with Eastern which provides, among other things, that— (a) The Soboba Indian Reservation lands may be annexed to Eastern and Metropolitan. (b) No annexation charge or back taxes regardless of form shall be made for said annexation. (c) The Secretary and Eastern shall jointly determine the additional new water supply and distribution facilities that shall be constructed and the existing facilities that shall be rehabilitated in order to provide domestic and irrigation water to each consumer within the Soboba Indian Reservation. Subject to the appropriation authorization limitation in section 5, construction or rehabilitation of facilities to provide water service to the Soboba Indian Reservation shall be undertaken by Eastern, shall be financed by the United States, wath Eastern providing such funds as the Secretary of the Interior and Eastern jointly determine represent a prorated share of joint-use facilities constructed outside of the Soboba Reservation, and with the $30,000 paid pursuant to subsection 1(a) being applied to the construction or rehabilitation. Facilities constructed within the Soboba Reservation shall be the property of the United States and facilities constructed outside of the Soboba Reservation shall be the property of Eastern.

December 17, 15i70 [H. R. 3328]

Soboba Indian Reservation, Calif. Water distribution system; claim r e l e a s e agreement.

Payment.

Effective date.

Land annexation.

Annexation charge, e t c., waiver. Water service agreement.

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