§ 1778a. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC1778a]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 19--INDIAN LAND CLAIMS SETTLEMENTS
SUBCHAPTER XII--TORRES-MARTINEZ DESERT CAHUILLA INDIANS CLAIMS
SETTLEMENT
Sec. 1778a. Definitions
For the purposes of this subchapter:
(1) Tribe
The 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) Allottees
The 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 Sea
The 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 agreement
The 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) Secretary
The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Interior.
(6) Permanent flowage easement
The 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, Sec. 603, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2908.)
