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In this title: (1) Adjudication The term Adjudication means the general adjudication of water rights entitled United States v. A&R Production, et al., Civil No. 01–CV–00072, including the subproceeding Civil No. 07–CV–00681, pending as of the date of enactment of this Act in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. (2) Agreement The term Agreement means— (A) the document entitled Settlement Agreement to Quantify and Protect the Water Rights of the Zuni Indian Tribe in the Zuni River Basin in New Mexico and to Protect the Zuni Salt Lake and dated May 1, 2023, and the attachments thereto; and (B) any amendment to the document referred to in subparagraph (A) (including an amendment to an attachment thereto) that is executed to ensure that the Agreement is consistent with this title. (3) Allotment The term Allotment means— (A) any of the 9 parcels on Zuni Lands that are held in trust by the United States for individual Indians, or an Indian Tribe holding an undivided fractional beneficial interest, under the patents numbered 202394, 224251, 224252, 224667, 234753, 236955, 254124, 254125, and 254126; and (B) any of the 6 parcels in the State off Zuni Lands that are held in trust by the United States for individual Indians, or an Indian Tribe holding an undivided fractional beneficial interest, under the patents numbered 211719, 246362, 246363, 246364, 246365, and 247321. (4) Allottee The term Allottee means— (A) an individual Indian holding a beneficial interest in an Allotment; or (B) an Indian Tribe holding an undivided fractional beneficial interest in an Allotment. (5) Partial final judgment and decree The term Partial Final Judgment and Decree means a final or interlocutory partial final judgment and decree entered by the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico with respect to the water rights of the Tribe— (A) that is substantially in the form described in the Agreement, as amended to ensure consistency with this title; and (B) from which no further appeal may be taken. (6) Trust fund The term Trust Fund means the Zuni Tribe Settlement Trust Fund established under section 105(a). (7) Zuni Lands The term Zuni Lands means land within the State that is held in trust by the United States for the Tribe, or owned by the Tribe, at the time of filing of a Motion for Entry of the Partial Final Judgment and Decree, including the land withdrawn from sale and set apart as a reservation or in trust for the use and occupancy of the Tribe by— (A) Executive order of March 16, 1877 (relating to Zuni Pueblo reserve), as amended by Executive order of May 1, 1883 (relating to Zuni Reserve); (B) Presidential Proclamation 1412, dated November 30, 1917; (C) the Act of June 20, 1935 (49 Stat. 393, chapter 282); (D) the Act of August 13, 1949 (63 Stat. 604, chapter 425); and (E) the Warranty Deed recorded on July 16, 1997, in Book 6, Page 5885 of the Cibola County Records. (8) Zuni river stream system The term Zuni River Stream System means the Zuni River surface water drainage basin identified in the order of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico in the Adjudication entitled Order on Special Master's Report re: Geographic Scope of Adjudication, Docket 200 and dated May 21, 2003.