News release: Senate committee advances Padilla, Schiff bill to enact a water settlement between the Tule River Tribe and the United States
U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (both D-Calif.) announced that the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs advanced their legislation to formally recognize the Tule River Tribe’s reserved water rights and quantify the Tribe’s water right of 5,828 acre-feet per year of surface water from the South Fork of the Tule River (in the San Joaquin Valley). The bill passed out of committee by voice vote and now moves to the Senate floor for consideration by the full Senate. For decades, the Tule River Tribe has worked with the federal government and downstream water users to advance a settlement agreement, avoiding costly and adversarial litigation for both the Tribe and the United States government.
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