Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025

This bill updates the Crow Tribe’s 2010 water rights settlement with Montana so water projects on the Crow Reservation can keep moving forward. It lets the Bureau of Reclamation continue fixing and improving the Crow Irrigation Project, and it creates new accounts to manage money for irrigation and for drinking water and other community water needs. The bill also keeps the tribe’s exclusive right to build hydropower at Yellowtail Afterbay Dam in Montana for five more years, through 2030.

In simple terms, this means more support to repair canals and ditches, improve water treatment and delivery, and potentially add clean energy, which can help homes, farms, and local jobs on the reservation.

• Who is affected: Crow Tribe of Montana and people living on the Crow Reservation.
• What changes: Continues irrigation repairs; sets up a Crow CIP Implementation Account; creates a new MR&I Projects Account for water production, treatment, and delivery; and updates terms to refer to “MR&I Projects.”
• When: Extends the tribe’s exclusive right to build hydropower at Yellowtail Afterbay Dam until 2030.