2014 US Code
Title 25 - Indians (Sections 1 - 4307)
Chapter 19 - Indian Land Claims Settlements (Sections 1701 - 1780p)
Subchapter XII - Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians Claims Settlement (Sections 1778 - 1778h)
Sec. 1778a - Definitions
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 25 - INDIANS |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 25 - INDIANS CHAPTER 19 - INDIAN LAND CLAIMS SETTLEMENTS SUBCHAPTER XII - TORRES-MARTINEZ DESERT CAHUILLA INDIANS CLAIMS SETTLEMENT Sec. 1778a - Definitions |
Contains | section 1778a |
Date | 2014 |
Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 5, 2015 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Pub. L. 106-568, title VI, §603, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2908. |
Statutes at Large Reference | 114 Stat. 2908 |
Public and Private Law | Public Law 106-568 |
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For the purposes of this subchapter:
(1) TribeThe term "Tribe" means the Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, a federally recognized Indian tribe with a reservation located in Riverside and Imperial Counties, California.
(2) AllotteesThe term "allottees" means those individual Tribe members, their successors, heirs, and assigns, who have individual ownership of allotted Indian trust lands within the Torres-Martinez Indian Reservation.
(3) Salton SeaThe term "Salton Sea" means the inland body of water located in Riverside and Imperial Counties which serves as a drainage reservoir for water from precipitation, natural runoff, irrigation return flows, wastewater, floods, and other inflow from within its watershed area.
(4) Settlement agreementThe term "Settlement Agreement" means the Agreement of Compromise and Settlement Concerning Claims to the Lands of the United States Within and on the Perimeter of the Salton Sea Drainage Reservoir Held in Trust for the Torres-Martinez Indians executed on June 18, 1996, as modified by the first, second, third, and fourth modifications thereto.
(5) SecretaryThe term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior.
(6) Permanent flowage easementThe term "permanent flowage easement" means the perpetual right by the water districts to use the described lands in the Salton Sink within and below the minus 220-foot contour as a drainage reservoir to receive and store water from their respective water and drainage systems, including flood water, return flows from irrigation, tail water, leach water, operational spills, and any other water which overflows and floods such lands, originating from lands within such water districts.
(Pub. L. 106–568, title VI, §603, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2908.)
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