Rights Compact News Today

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Recently, Congressman Matt Rosendale (MT-02) introduced H.R. 5088 to provide for the settlement of the water rights claims of the Fort Belknap Indian Community (FBIC). The FBIC Water Settlement will ratify the...

It’s the first time any version of the Fort Belknaps water settlement has cleared the Senate after four past introductions just since 2012.

Jim Elliott writes, The negotiations on the Compact began over 10 years prior to its adoption with meetings between the CSKT and the Montana Reserved Water Rights Commission, the state agency created in 1979 to negotiate the compacts while protecting existing non-tribal water rights.