104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2726
AN ACT
To make certain technical corrections in laws relat-
ing to Native Americans, and for other purposes.
SECTION 1. CORRECTION TO POKAGON RESTORATION ACT.
Section 9 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to restore Fed-
eral services to the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians’’
(25 U.S.C. 1300j–7a) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘Bands’’ each place it appears
and inserting ‘‘Band’’;
(2) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘respective’’;
and
(3) in subsection (b)—
(A) in paragraph (1)—
(i) in the first sentence—
(I) by striking ‘‘membership rolls
that contain’’ and inserting ‘‘a mem-
bership roll that contains’’; and
(II) by striking ‘‘in such’’ and in-
serting ‘‘in the’’; and
(ii) in the second sentence, by striking
‘‘Each such’’ and inserting ‘‘The’’;
(B) in paragraph (2)—
(i) by striking ‘‘rolls have’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘roll has’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘such rolls’’ and in-
serting ‘‘such roll’’;
(C) in the heading for paragraph (3), by
striking ‘‘ROLLS’’ and inserting ‘‘ROLL’’; and
(D) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘rolls are
maintained’’ and inserting ‘‘roll is maintained’’.
SEC. 2. CORRECTION TO ODAWA AND OTTAWA RESTORA-
TION ACT.
(a) REAFFIRMATION OF RIGHTS.—The heading of
section 5(b) of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa
Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Act
(25 U.S.C. 1300k–3) is amended by striking ‘‘TRIBE’’ and
inserting ‘‘BANDS’’.
(b) MEMBERSHIP LIST.—Section 9 of the Little Tra-
verse Bay Bands of Odawa and the Little River Band of
Ottawa Indians Act (25 U.S.C. 1300k–7) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) by striking ‘‘Band’’ the first place it
appears and inserting ‘‘Bands’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘the Band.’’ and inserting
‘‘the respective Bands.’’; and
(2) in subsection (b)(1)—
(A) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘the
Band shall submit to the Secretary membership
rolls that contain the names of all individuals
eligible for membership in such Band’’ and in-
serting ‘‘each of the Bands shall submit to the
Secretary a membership roll that contains the
names of all individuals that are eligible for
membership in such Band’’; and
(B) in the second sentence, by striking
‘‘The Band, in consultation’’ and inserting
‘‘Each such Band, in consultation’’.
SEC. 3. INDIAN DAMS SAFETY ACT OF 1994.
Section 4(h) of the Indian Dams Safety Act of 1994
(25 U.S.C. 3803(h); 108 Stat. 1562) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘(under the Indian Self-Determination and Education
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(e))), as amended,’’ and
inserting ‘‘under the Indian Self-Determination and Edu-
cation Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.)’’.
SEC. 4. PASCUA YAQUI INDIANS OF ARIZONA.
Section 4(b) of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide
for the extension of certain Federal benefits, services, and
assistance to the Pascua Yaqui Indians of Arizona, and
for other purposes’’ (25 U.S.C. 1300f–3(b)) is amended
by striking ‘‘Pascua Yaqui tribe’’ and inserting ‘‘Pascua
Yaqui Tribe’’.
SEC. 5. INDIAN LANDS OPEN DUMP CLEANUP ACT OF 1994.
Section 3(7) of the Indian Lands Open Dump Clean-
up Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 3902(7); 108 Stat. 4165) is
amended by striking ‘‘under section 6944 of the Solid
Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6941 et seq.)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘under section 4004 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act
(42 U.S.C. 6944)’’.
SEC. 6. AMERICAN INDIAN TRUST FUND MANAGEMENT RE-
FORM ACT OF 1994.
(a) 
MAINTENANCE
OF
RECORDS.—Section
303(c)(5)(D) of the American Indian Trust Fund Man-
agement Reform Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 4043(c)(5)(D);
108 Stat. 4247) is amended by striking ‘‘made under
paragraph (3)(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘made under subpara-
graph (C)’’.
(b) ADVISORY BOARD.—Section 306(d) of the Indian
Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C.
4046(d); 108 Stat. 4249) is amended by striking ‘‘Advi-
sory Board’’ and inserting ‘‘advisory board’’.
SEC. 7. INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION CONTRACT REFORM
ACT OF 1994.
Section 102(11) of the Indian Self-Determination
Contract Reform Act of 1994 (108 Stat. 4254) is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘subsection (e)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection
(e) of section 105’’.
SEC. 8. AUBURN INDIAN RESTORATION.
(a) ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.—Section 203 of the
Auburn Indian Restoration Act (25 U.S.C. 1300l–1) is
amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ‘‘as pro-
vided in section 107’’ and inserting ‘‘as provided in
section 207’’; and
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘section 104’’
and inserting ‘‘section 204’’.
(b) INTERIM GOVERNMENT.—The last sentence of
section 206 of the Auburn Indian Restoration Act (25
U.S.C. 1300l–4) is amended by striking ‘‘Interim council’’
and inserting ‘‘Interim Council’’.
SEC. 9. CROW BOUNDARY SETTLEMENT ACT OF 1994.
(a) ENFORCEMENT.—Section 5(b)(3) of the Crow
Boundary Settlement Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 1776c(b)(3);
108 Stat. 4636) is amended by striking ‘‘provisions of sub-
section (b)’’ and inserting ‘‘provisions of this subsection’’.
(b) APPLICABILITY.—Section 9(a) of the Crow
Boundary Settlement Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 1776g(a);
108 Stat. 4640) is amended by striking ‘‘The Act’’ and
inserting ‘‘This Act’’.
(c) ESCROW FUNDS.—Section 10(b) of the Crow
Boundary Settlement Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 1776h(b);
108 Stat. 4641) is amended by striking ‘‘(collectively re-
ferred to in this subsection as the ‘Suspension Accounts’)’’
and inserting ‘‘(collectively referred to in this section as
the ‘Suspension Accounts’)’’.
SEC. 13. REVOCATION OF CHARTER OF INCORPORATION
OF 
THE 
MINNESOTA 
CHIPPEWA 
TRIBE
UNDER THE INDIAN REORGANIZATION ACT.
The request of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe to sur-
render the charter of incorporation issued to that tribe on
September 17, 1937, pursuant to section 17 of the Act
of June 18, 1934, commonly known as the ‘‘Indian Reor-
ganization Act’’ (48 Stat. 988, chapter 576; 25 U.S.C.
477) is hereby accepted and that charter of incorporation
is hereby revoked.
SEC. 14. ADVISORY COUNCIL ON CALIFORNIA INDIAN POL-
ICY ACT OF 1992.
Section 5(6) of the Advisory Council on California In-
dian Policy Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 2133; 25 U.S.C. 651
note) is amended by striking ‘‘18 months’’ and inserting
‘‘36 months’’.
SEC. 15. IN-LIEU FISHING SITE TRANSFER AUTHORITY.
Section 401 of Public Law 100–581 (102 Stat. 2944–
2945) is amended by adding at the end the following new
subsection:
‘‘(g) The Secretary of the Army is authorized to
transfer funds to the Department of the Interior to be
used for purposes of the continued operation and mainte-
nance of sites improved or developed under this section.’’.
SEC. 16. ADOLESCENT TRANSITIONAL LIVING FACILITY.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any
funds that were provided to the Ponca Indian Tribe of
Nebraska for any of the fiscal years 1992 through 1995,
and that were retained by that Indian tribe, pursuant to
a self-determination contract with the Secretary of Health
and Human Services that the Indian tribe entered into
under section 102 of the Indian Self-Determination and
Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450f) to carry out
programs and functions of the Indian Health Service may
be used by that Indian tribe to acquire, develop, and main-
tain a transitional living facility for adolescents, including
land for that facility.
SEC. 17. EXPENDITURE OF MESCALERO APACHE TRIBE
JUDGMENT FUNDS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, or any
distribution plan approved pursuant to the Indian Tribal
Judgment Funds Use or Distribution Act (25 U.S.C. 1401
et seq.), the Secretary of the Interior may reprogram, in
accordance with the Resolutions, approved by the Mesca-
lero Apache Tribal Council on January 24, 1995, any and
all remaining funds (principal and interest accounts) re-
garding specific changes in the Secretarial Plans for the
use of the funds in Docket Nos. 22–G, 30, 48, 30–A, and
48–A, awarded in satisfaction of the judgments by the In-
dian Claims Commission.
SEC. 18. ESTABLISHMENT OF A BAND ROLL.
Section 5(d)(2) of the Lac Vieux Desert Band of
Lake Superior Chippewa Indians Act (25 U.S.C. 1300h–
3(d)(2); 102 Stat. 1578) is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘and base roll’’ after ‘‘require-
ment’’; and
(2) by striking ‘‘modification is’’ and inserting
‘‘modifications are’’.
SEC. 19. OPTION TO INCORPORATE SELF-DETERMINATION
PROVISIONS INTO SELF-GOVERNANCE.
Section 403 of the Indian Self-Determination and
Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 458cc) is amended
by adding the following new subsection:
‘‘(l) INCORPORATE SELF-DETERMINATION PROVI-
SIONS.—At the option of a participating tribe or tribes,
any or all provisions of title I of this Act shall be made
part of an agreement entered into under title III of this
Act or this title. The Secretary is obligated to include such
provisions at the option of the participating tribe or tribes.
If such provision is incorporated it shall have the same
force and effect as if set out in full in title III or this
title.’’.
Passed the House of Representatives January 23,
1996.
Attest:
Clerk.