S 240
To President
Redirects the Crow Tribe's water infrastructure settlement funds into a tribal-managed MR&I Projects Account, gives the Tribe control of projects built with those funds, and extends a Yellowtail Dam deadline from 15 to 20 years.
Official title: Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Received
15-DEC-2025
Passed
14-SEP-2026
Senate
Introduced
24-JAN-2025
Referred
24-JAN-2025
Approved by committee
05-MAR-2025
Reported
04-NOV-2025
On the calendar
04-NOV-2025
Passed
11-DEC-2025
Took up the House's changes
15-SEP-2026
President
Presented
05-OCT-2026
- Repeals Section 406 of the 2010 Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act, which had created the MR&I System, and renames the system as MR&I Projects throughout the law.
- Creates an MR&I Projects Account within the Crow Settlement Fund, funded by appropriated amounts and deposits under Section 414.
- Lets the Tribe use the account for water production, treatment, delivery, and wastewater infrastructure, and after those on-Reservation projects are complete, to buy on-Reservation land with water rights. Title to and control of the projects stay with the Tribe, and the federal government has no obligation to pay for their operation, maintenance, or replacement.
- Changes a 15-year period to 20 years in Section 412(b)(1) concerning Yellowtail Dam, Montana, and makes several technical cross-reference corrections.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in Senate" (24-JAN-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed Amendment House, 14-SEP-2026).
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