CSKT Water Rights Settlement Implementation

The CSKT Water Compact is a Tribal-State-Federal agreement to fulfill the quantification of the Salish, Kalispell, and Kootenai water rights as guaranteed ...

Interior Department Executes Water Rights Settlement Agreement ...

Today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland signed the Confederated Salish and Kootenai-Montana Compact (“Compact”), formally executing the ...

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Compact - DNRC

After more than a decade of negotiations, the Compact resolves CSKT's reserved water right claims and creates a joint state-tribal system for administering ...

Montana tribe finalizes historic $1.9 billion water rights settlement

After decades of negotiations, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) have finalized a $1.9 billion water rights settlement that ...

COMPACT SETTLEMENT DELIVERS $157M TO CSKT [02/09/2023]

Fulfilling the CSKT Water Rights settlement was championed by Senators Steve Daines and Jon Tester, and was signed into law by former President Trump. In a ...

$1.9 Billion Water Rights Settlement with the Confederated Salish ...

After decades of negotiations, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) have finalized a $1.9 billion water rights settlement that ...

Background – CSKT Water Rights Settlement Implementation

1855 The Hellgate Treaty establishes the Flathead Indian Reservation, a 1.3 million acre reserved area in exchange for the 22 million acres of aboriginal ...

Lake County Leader: Compact settlement delivers $157m to CSKT

According to Robert McDonald, CSKT Compact Implementation Officer, funding from the compact settlement has already been channeled toward ...

Water Rights - Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

The CSKT-MT Water Compact was ratified by the State of Montana in 2015 (MCA 85-20-1901). Subsequent ratification by the Federal government, through legislation ...

The CSKT Water Compact has been enacted - ArcGIS StoryMaps

The CSKT-MT Compact is a water rights agreement between the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) of the Flathead Indian Reservation, the State of ...

85-20-1901 Water rights compact entered into by the Confederated ...

This Compact is entered into by and among the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana, the State of Montana, and the ...

Compact Implementation Program - DNRC

DNRC staff attend to the State's obligations under 18 distinct water right compacts negotiated by the Reserved Water Right Compact Commission, ...

CSKT Water Compact Settlement Summary as Established in Jon ...

3013 pg 38. $365,207,225. Agriculture Development Account shall be used (A) to Implement the tribal water right through rehabilitation and improvement of ...

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes secure 'remarkable' $1.9 ...

The settlement, touted as the largest amount ever awarded in a tribal water rights case, paves the way for the CSKT to protect its uses of water in the state.

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Supports $580 Million Investment to ...

That includes $2.5 billion to implement the Indian Water Rights Settlement Completion Fund, which will help deliver long-promised water resources to Tribes, ...

CSKT Water Compact Passes Congress - Montana Trout Unlimited

Congress noted that the $1.9 billion CSKT water compact is the largest water rights settlement in history between the federal government and a ...

CSKT Water Rights Compact officially becomes law | News

A press release by Montana Jon Tester (D.-Mont) states, “The CSKT Water Compact will finalize the water rights settlement between CSKT and the ...

Indian Water Rights Settlements - FAS Project on Government Secrecy

After congressional approval, federal projects associated with approved Indian water rights settlements generally have been implemented by the ...

Indian Water Rights Settlements - CRS Reports

Approval and implementation of Indian water rights settlements typically requires federal action—often in the form of congressional approval. As ...

Glad You Asked: CSKT-Montana Water Compact

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland formally executed the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes water compact Friday, finalizing a long ...