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1977. See Rule XXV of Standing Rules of the Standing

Rules of the Senate, as amended by Senate Resolution

No. 4, Ninety-fifth Congress (popularly cited as the

‘‘Committee System Reorganization Amendments of

1977’’), approved Feb. 4, 1977. Section 105 of Senate Resolution No. 4 established a temporary Select Committee on Indian Affairs having jurisdiction over matters

relating to Indian affairs (such matters previously having been within the jurisdiction of the Committee on

Interior Ninety-eighth Congress, established the Select

Committee on Indian Affairs as a permanent committee of the Senate, and section 25 of Senate Resolution

No. 71, Feb. 25, 1993, One Hundred Third Congress, redesignated the Select Committee on Indian Affairs as

the Committee on Indian Affairs.

§ 622. Exchange of tribal lands; title to lands

For the purpose of consolidation of Indian

lands the Secretary of the Interior is authorized,

under such regulations as he may prescribe, to

exchange any lands or interests therein, including improvements and water rights with the

consent of the Pueblo or Navajo tribal authorities for other lands, water rights, and improvements of similar value in the area set apart for

the Pueblos and Canoncito Navajos or in the

areas declared to be public domain or within any

public domain within New Mexico. Title to all

lands acquired under the provisions of this subchapter shall be taken in the name of the United

States in trust for the respective Pueblo Indians

and the Navajo Canoncito group.

(Aug. 13, 1949, ch. 425, §2, 63 Stat. 605.)

§ 623. Disbursement of deposits in the United

Pueblos Agency

The funds now on deposit in the United Pueblos Agency in ‘‘special deposits’’ which have accrued from issuance of livestock-crossing permits and fees collected for grazing permits on

the lands which have been under the jurisdiction

of the Department of the Interior shall be expended or disbursed for the benefit of the Indians under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.

(Aug. 13, 1949, ch. 425, §3, 63 Stat. 605.)

§ 624. Exchange of lands

(a) Authorization of Secretary; manner and place

For the purpose of improving the land tenure

pattern and consolidating Pueblo Indian lands,

the Secretary of the Interior is authorized,

under such regulations as he may prescribe, to

acquire by exchange any lands or interests

therein, including improvements and water

rights, within the Pueblo land consolidation

areas, and to convey in exchange therefor not to

exceed an equal value of unappropriated public

lands within the State of New Mexico, or, with

the consent of the Pueblo authorities any Pueblo tribal lands or interest therein, including improvements and water rights.

(b) Reservation of minerals, easements, or rights

of use

Either party to an exchange under this section

may reserve minerals, easements, or rights of

use.

(c) Execution of title documents

The Secretary may execute any title documents necessary to effect the exchanges authorized by this section.

(d) Title to lands

Title to all lands acquired under the provisions of this section shall be taken in the name

of the United States in trust for the respective

Pueblo Indian tribes.

(Pub. L. 87–231, §10, Sept. 14, 1961, 75 Stat. 505.)

CODIFICATION

Section was not enacted as part of act Aug. 13, 1949,

ch. 425, 63 Stat. 604, which comprises this subchapter.

SUBCHAPTER XXI—NAVAJO AND HOPI

TRIBES: REHABILITATION

SUBCHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This subchapter is referred to in section 1461 of this

title.

§ 631. Basic program for conservation and development of resources; projects; appropriations

In order to further the purposes of existing

treaties with the Navajo Indians, to provide facilities, employment, and services essential in

combating hunger, disease, poverty, and demoralization among the members of the Navajo and

Hopi Tribes, to make available the resources of

their reservations for use in promoting a selfsupporting economy and self-reliant communities, and to lay a stable foundation on which

these Indians can engage in diversified economic

activities and ultimately attain standards of living comparable with those enjoyed by other citizens, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized

and directed to undertake, within the limits of

the funds from time to time appropriated pursuant to this subchapter, a program of basic improvements for the conservation and development of the resources of the Navajo and Hopi Indians, the more productive employment of their

manpower, and the supplying of means to be

used in their rehabilitation, whether on or off

the Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations. Such

program shall include the following projects for

which capital expenditures in the amount shown

after each project listed in the following subsections and totaling $108,570,000 are authorized

to be appropriated:

(1) Soil and water conservation and range

improvement work, $10,000,000.

(2) Completion and extension of existing irrigation projects, and completion of the investigation to determine the feasibility of the

proposed San Juan-Shiprock irrigation

project, $9,000,000.

(3) Surveys and studies of timber, coal, mineral, and other physical and human resources,

$500,000.

(4) Development of industrial and business

enterprises, $1,000,000.

(5) Development of opportunities for off-reservation employment and resettlement and assistance in adjustments related thereto,

$3,500,000.

(6) Relocation and resettlement of Navajo

and Hopi Indians (Colorado River Indian Reservation), $5,750,000.

(7) Roads and trails, $40,000,000; of which not

less than $20,000,000 shall be (A) available for

contract authority for such construction and

improvement of the roads designated as route

1 and route 3 on the Navajo and Hopi Indian