# Miscellaneous Payments

**Agency:** Interior  
**Account:** Indian Land and Water Claim Settlements and Miscellaneous Payments to Indians  
**Source document:** Bureau of Indian Affairs · p. 179  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/interior/miscellaneous-payments  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 0.3 |
| FY2027 | request | 0.3 |

## Interior discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $18.80B, FY2026 $17.30B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Truckee River Operating Agreement (TROA) (Pub.L. 101-618): Funds will be used to pay the BIA share of ongoing administrative fees for the Truckee River Operating Agreement authorized in Section 205 of the Truckee-Carson-Pyramid Lake Water Settlement Act (Pub.L. 101-618) for services provided to implement the settlement. In addition, funds will be used to pay the BIA share of the cost of operation and maintenance of Boca Dam and Reservoir pursuant to Section 7 of the Truckee River Operating Part of TROA administrative fees pay to retain a Special Hearing Officer, whose responsibility it is to hear disagreements among all TROA parties. The TROA administration fee also pays for the TROA Administrator to operate and maintain the Truckee River Operations model, a 15-month model, the output from which is used by all TROA parties to plan storage and use of their water. Indian Land & Water Claim Settlements & Miscellaneous Payments to Indians Summary of Program Changes Table: Indian Land & Water Claim Settlements & Miscellaneous Justification of Program Changes Narrative: Indian Land & Water Claim Settlements &


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Interior › Bureau of Indian Affairs › Indian Land and Water Claim Settlements and Miscellaneous Payments to Indians › Miscellaneous Payments


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*