TRIBAL USE OF WATER.

SEC. 503. TRIBAL USE OF WATER. (a) Ratification of Revised Ute Indian Compact.—The Revised Ute Indian Compact of 1990, dated October 1, 1990, reserving waters to the Ute Indian Tribe and establishing the uses and management of such Tribal waters, is hereby ratified and approved, subject to re-ratification by the State and the Tribe. The Secretary is authorized to take all actions necessary to implement the Com-pact. (b) The Indian Intercourse Act.—The provisions of section 2116 of the Revised Statutes (25 U.S.C. 177) shall not apply to any water rights confirmed in the Compact. Nothing in this subsection shall be considered to amend, construe, supersede or preempt any State law, Federal law, interstate compact or international treaty that pertains to the Colorado River or its tributaries, including the appropriation, use, development and storage, regulation, allocation, conservation, exportation or quality of those waters. (c) Restriction on Disposal of Waters Into the Lower Colorado River Basin.—None of the waters secured to the Tribe in the Revised Ute Indian Compact of 1990 may be sold, exchanged, leased, used, or otherwise disposed of into or in the Lower Colorado River Basin, below Lees Ferry, unless water rights within the Upper Colorado River Basin in the State of Utah held by non-Federal, non-Indian users could be so sold, exchanged, leased, used, or otherwise disposed of under Utah State law, Federal law, inter-state compacts, or international treaty pursuant to a final, nonappealable order of a Federal court or pursuant to an agreement of the seven States signatory to the Colorado River Compact; Provided, however, That in no event shall such transfer of Indian water rights take place without the filing and approval of the appropriate applications with the Utah State Engineer pursuant to Utah State law. (d) Use of Water Rights.—The use of the rights referred to in subsection (a) within the State of Utah shall be governed solely as provided in this section and the Revised Compact referred to in section 503(a). The Tribe may voluntarily elect to sell, exchange, lease, use, or otherwise dispose of any portion of a water right confirmed in the Revised Compact off the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation. If the Tribe so elects, and as a condition precedent to such sale, exchange, lease, use, or other disposition, that portion of the Tribe’s water right shall be changed to a State 106 STAT. 4653water right, but shall be such a State water right only during the use of that right off the reservation, and shall be fully subject to State laws, Federal laws, interstate compacts, and international treaties applicable to the Colorado River and its tributaries, including the appropriation, use, development, storage, regulation, allocation, conservation, exportation, or quality of those waters. (e) Rules of Construction.—Nothing in titles II through VI of this Act or in the Revised Ute Indian Compact of 1990 shall— (1) constitute authority for the sale, exchange, lease, use, or other disposal of any Federal reserved water right off the reservation; (2) constitute authority for the sale, exchange, lease, use, or other disposal of any Tribal water right outside the State of Utah; or (3) be deemed a congressional determination that any holders of water rights do or do not have authority under existing law to sell, exchange, lease, use, or otherwise dispose of such water or water rights outside the State of Utah.