WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) joined her colleagues Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Mike Crapo (R-ID), and Jim Risch (R-ID) to reintroduce the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation Water Rights Settlement Act. This legislation will allow the Tribes to finally collect over $5 million in interest they are owed for their 2009 water rights settlement.
“The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation deserve the millions of dollars in interest they are owed,” said Senator Rosen. “I’m proud to help introduce this bipartisan legislation to ensure they finally receive this payment after a nearly twenty year delay.”
“It is absurd that the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation have had to go nearly two decades without millions of dollars in interest they are owed,” said Senator Cortez Masto. “My commonsense, bipartisan legislation fixes this years-old oversight and secures funding that these Tribes deserve.”
“This much-needed fix takes the next step in upholding the federal government’s full interest terms of the 2009 settlement with the Duck Valley reservation,” said Senator Crapo. “The Senate unanimously advanced the measure in the last Congress and must do so again expeditiously. The House should follow suit so we can correct this error as soon as possible.”
“The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes’ water rights settlement mistakenly excluded interest payments, unjustly cutting these communities short,” said Senator Risch. “I’m proud to join my colleagues in introducing legislation to correct this error and provide the Tribes the proper interest they are owed.”
Senator Rosen has been working to support Tribal communities in Nevada with the resources they need. Earlier this year, she announced more than $700,000 to improve transportation for Tribal communities in Nevada. Last year, she helped secure more than $5 million to improve water infrastructure for Tribal communities in Nevada. Senator Rosen also joined a bipartisan group of her colleagues to request more funding for Tribal law enforcement programs.
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