Tribal Water Rights definition

Tribal Water Rights for purposes of this Agreement means only the water rights jointly held by the Klamath Tribes and the BIA, in its capacity as trustee of the Klamath Tribes, in the Klamath Adjudication as those water rights listed in subsection 1.1 and those in subsection 1.3.1 that are subsequently settled, as they were determined in the FFOD, and as later determined in the Klamath Adjudication. In additionTribal Water Right” (singular) means one of the water rights described above in this paragraph.
Tribal Water Rights means those water rights confirmed in the Snake River Water Rights Act of 2004 as rights held in trust for the Tribe by the United States, including those rights held for the benefit of individual Indians on Indians lands, and any other water rights acquired by the Tribe at any other time.
Tribal Water Rights means the water rights jointly held by the Klamath Tribes and the United States in trust for the Klamath Tribes, as determined in the Klamath Basin Adjudication cases designated as 277, 279, 280, 281, 282, 284, 285, and 286 in the proceedings before Oregon’s Office of Administrative Hearings.

Examples of Tribal Water Rights in a sentence

  • Protection of Northern Cheyenne Tribal Water Rights within the Northern Cheyenne Reservation.

  • Upon request by DNRC, TWRD shall provide information on developed and authorized Tribal Water Rights as recorded by TWRD to DNRC.


More Definitions of Tribal Water Rights

Tribal Water Rights means all water rights of every nature and description from 22 any source both surface and underground derived from and reserved under the Xxxxxxx 1 Doctrine as originally set forth in Xxxxxxx v. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 000 X.X. 000 (1908), and any and 2 all other legal theories, that are quantified, confirmed, and recognized in this Compact for 3 the Tribe, its Members and all those possessing water rights derived by or through the Tribe.
Tribal Water Rights means those rights to divert or affect Reservation water which are granted to persons pursuant to the provisions of this Code.
Tribal Water Rights means all rights of the Reservation and of the Tribe and its members to the use for any purpose of surface water, groundwater, or Effluent on or off the Reservation, whether based on state law, federal law, or other law, whether claimed, unclaimed, asserted, or unasserted, whether existing in the past, present, or future within the Honey Lake Valley Basin, the Smoke Creek Desert Basin, Pyramid Lake, and the Pyramid Lake Valley Basin, and all past, present, and future rights of the Tribe and its members to the use for any purpose of surface water, groundwater, or Effluent based upon the aboriginal occupation of the Tribe and its members and their predecessors of any area of land.

Related to Tribal Water Rights

  • Water Rights means: (1) with respect to any Person, all of such Person's right, title and interest in and to any water stock, permits or entitlements and any other water rights related to or appurtenant to property owned or leased by such Person, and (2) with respect to any property, any water stock, permits or entitlements and any other water rights related to or appurtenant to such property.

  • Water right means a permit, claim, or other authorization, on record with or accepted by the department of ecology, authorizing the beneficial use of water in accordance with all applicable state laws.

  • Tribal lands means all lands within the exterior boundaries of any Indian reservation and all dependent Indian communities.

  • Tribal Land means all lands within the exterior boundaries of any land formally designated by the federal government as a Tribal reservation or land set apart by the federal government for a Tribe’s use such as pueblos and tribal trust lands but it does not include land that the Tribe acquired legal title through non-federal designation or award, unless 1) the tribe has obtained a federal public law stating that the Tribal members who reside in a particularly named area shall be considered (without any fiscal year limitation) for the purposes of the United States Housing Act of 1937 or such other federal housing law as residing on an Indian reservation or other Indian area; or 2) the tribe has acquired the land under Public Law 99-503 that provided for the replacement of certain lands within the Gila Bend Indian Reservation, the Secretary of the Interior holds such land in trust for the benefit of the tribe, and such land is deemed to be a Federal Indian Reservation for all purposes. The Project must be wholly located in the particular area stated in the federal public law to be considered to be Tribal Land.

  • Public Rights-of-Way means the area on, below, or above a public roadway, highway, street, public sidewalk, alley, waterway, or utility easements dedicated for compatible uses.

  • Water resources means all waters of the state occurring on the surface, in natural or artificial channels, lakes, reservoirs, or impoundments, and in subsurface aquifers, which are available, or which may be made available to agricultural, industrial, commercial, recreational, public, and domestic users;

  • Stormwater management measure means any practice, technology, process, program, or other method intended to control or reduce stormwater runoff and associated pollutants, or to induce or control the infiltration or groundwater recharge of stormwater or to eliminate illicit or illegal non-stormwater discharges into stormwater conveyances.

  • Lands means the purchase of real property or interest in real property.

  • Partnership Assets means all assets, whether tangible or intangible and whether real, personal or mixed (including, without limitation, all partnership capital and interest in other partnerships), at any time owned by any Pledgor or represented by any Partnership Interest.

  • Industrial wastewater means the water or liquid carried waste from an industrial process. These wastes may result from any process or activity of industry, manufacture, trade or business, from the development of any natural resource, or from animal operations such as feedlots, poultry houses, or dairies. The term includes contaminated storm water and leachate from solid waste facilities.

  • Stormwater runoff means water flow on the surface of the ground or in storm sewers, resulting from precipitation.

  • general waste means waste that does not pose an immediate hazard or threat to health or to the environment, and includes-

  • Conservation easement means that term as defined in section 2140 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.2140.

  • Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights means the entire interest of the Vendor as specified in Schedule "A" in and to the Lands and, insofar as they pertain to the Lands, the Leases.

  • Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater means the most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Waterworks Association and the Water Environment Federation;

  • Residential waste means any refuse generated on the premises as a result of residential activities. The term includes landscape waste grown on the premises or deposited thereon by the elements, but excludes garbage, tires, trade wastes and any locally recyclable goods or plastics.

  • Public lands ’ means (A) all lands under the cus- tody and control of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, except Indian lands, (B) lands under the custody and control of the Tennessee Valley Authority that are situated in western Ken- tucky and Tennessee and are designated as ‘‘Land Be- tween the Lakes,’’ and (C) lands under the custody and control of the Secretary of Defense;

  • Membership Rights means all of the rights of a Member in the Company, including a Member’s: (a) Interest; (b) right to inspect the Company’s books and records; (c) right to participate in the management of and vote on matters coming before the Company; and (d) unless this Operating Agreement or the Certificate of Formation provide to the contrary, right to act as an agent of the Company.

  • Native vegetation means plant species that are indigenous to the region.

  • Mineral Rights means all rights, whether contractual or otherwise, for the exploration for or exploitation or extraction of mineral resources and reserves together with surface rights, water rights, royalty interests, fee interests, joint venture interests and other leases, rights of way and enurements related to any such rights;

  • Stormwater management basin means an excavation or embankment and related areas designed to retain stormwater runoff. A stormwater management basin may either be normally dry (that is, a detention basin or infiltration basin), retain water in a permanent pool (a retention basin), or be planted mainly with wetland vegetation (most constructed stormwater wetlands).

  • Universal waste transporter means a person engaged in the off-site transportation of universal waste by air, rail, highway, or water.

  • Water user means a person, corporation, or other entity having a right to divert water from the Bear River for beneficial use;

  • Unfit-for-use tank system means a tank system that has been determined through an integrity assessment or other inspection to be no longer capable of storing or treating hazardous waste without posing a threat of release of hazardous waste to the environment.

  • High Water Mark means the line on the interior surface of the primary and secondary cells which is normally reached when the cell is at the maximum allowable liquid level or the line of the exterior of the perimeter dykes which is reached during local flooding;

  • Water conservation means the preservation and careful management of water resources.