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 98 STAT. 2698

PUBLIC LAW 98-530—OCT. 19, 1984

Public Law 98-530 98th Congress An Act Oct. 19 1984 [H.R. 6206]

92 Stat. 411.

92 Stat. 409.

Central Arizona Project.

Relating to the water rights of the Ak-Chin Indian Community.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. SECTION 1. The Congress hereby finds and declares that— (1) the Department of the Interior and the Ak-Chin Indian Community executed on September 23, 1983, an agreement entitled "Agreement in Principle for Revised Ak-Chin Water Settlement", wherein the parties agreed to revisions of the Act of July 28, 1978 (Public Law 95-328; 92 Stat. 409); (2) the main purpose of the Agreement in Principle is to accomplish a prompt and economical fulfillment of the intent of that Act; (3) section 3 of that Act requires that the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary") as soon as possible but not later than twenty-five years after the date of the enactment of that Act, deliver to the Ak-Chin Indian Reservation a permanent supply of water to fulfill the Ak-Chin Indian Community's entitlement to eighty-five thousand acrefeet of water; (4) section 2 of that Act requires that the Secretary deliver an interim supply of water until the permanent supply is acquired and delivered to the Reservation; (5) the Secretary proposed to the Community, subject to the approval of Congress, to deliver the permanent supply not later than January 1, 1988, except that the Community, as a consideration, agree to certain modifications in the quantities of water to be delivered as the permanent supply and to release him from his obligation to deliver an interim supply; (6) in order to establish January 1, 1988, as the date certain for the delivery of a permanent supply, the Community agreed to— (A) the reduced deliveries of the permanent supply under certain conditions; (B) the Secretary's proposals regarding the interim supply; and (C) certain other proposals of the Secretary; and executed the Agreement in Principle; and (7) the provisions contained in this Act conform to the purposes of that Agreement and the consideration embodied in it. SEC. 2. (a) As soon as possible but not later than January 1, 1988, the Secretary shall deliver annually a permanent water supply from the main project works of the Central Arizona Project to the southeast corner of the Ak-Chin Indian Reservation of not less than seventy-five thousand acre-feet of surface water suitable for agricultural use except as otherwise provided under subsections (b) and (c). (b) In any year in which sufficient surface water is available, the Secretary shall deliver such additional quantity of water as is

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