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(2) The Settlement Agreement is approved and executed
by the Crow Tribe.
(3) The Settlement Agreement and the releases and waivers
required by section 5 are approved and duly executed by the
Crow Tribe in accordance with the requirements and procedures
set forth in the constitution of the Crow Tribe.
(4) The Settlement Agreement becomes effective in accord-
ance with the terms and conditions specified in the Settlement
Agreement.
(b) APPROVAL OF RELEASES AND WAIVERS.—The United States
hereby approves and confirms the releases and waivers required
by section 5.
SEC. 10. ESCROW FUNDS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary shall make distributions from the
107th meridian escrow fund as follows:
(1) One-half of the fund shall be distributed to the Crow
Tribe.
(2) One-half of the fund shall be distributed to the Northern
Cheyenne Tribe.
(3) The receipt and acceptance by a tribe of funds distrib-
uted under this section shall be deemed to be—
(A) a disclaimer, relinquishment and waiver by such
tribe of all right, claim or interest in the 107th meridian
escrow fund; and
(B) a release by such tribe of all persons and entities,
including the United States, from any liability arising from,
or related to, the establishment and administration of the
107th meridian escrow fund.
(b) ESTABLISHMENT
OF SUSPENSION ACCOUNTS.—As soon as
practicable after the Settlement Agreement is executed and
approved pursuant to this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall
establish in the Treasury of the United States two interest bearing
accounts to be known respectively as the ‘‘Crow Tribal Suspension
Account’’ and the ‘‘Northern Cheyenne Tribal Suspension Account’’
(collectively referred to in this subsection as the ‘‘Suspension
Accounts’’), consisting of—
(1) such amounts as are transferred to the Suspension
Accounts under subsection (c); and
(2) any interest earned on investments of amounts in the
Suspension Accounts under subsection (e).
(c) CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SUSPENSION ACCOUNTS.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Beginning with fiscal year 1995, and
ending on the date on which the total amount deposited pursu-
ant to this subsection into the Suspension Accounts is equal
to $200,000 for each such account (as specified in subsection
(d)), the Secretary and the Secretary of the Treasury shall
make necessary and proper arrangements for the monthly pay-
ment, transfer, or deposit (or any combination thereof) into
each of the Suspension Accounts of an amount equal to one-
half of the royalties received and retained by the United States
for the immediately preceding month, as determined in accord-
ance with section 6(b)(1), by the date specified under section
6(b)(3).
(2) SUBSEQUENT DEPOSITS.—At such time as the amount
deposited pursuant to this subsection into the Suspension
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Accounts is equal to $200,000 for each such account (as specified
in subsection (d)), in accordance with section 6(b)(1), the Sec-
retary and the Secretary of the Treasury shall thereafter
deposit any remaining amounts determined under section
6(b)(1) in the Crow Tribal Trust Fund established under section
6(a).
(d) LIMITATION.—The Secretary and the Secretary of the Treas-
ury shall not transfer more than a total amount equal to $200,000
to each of the Suspension Accounts from the amounts determined
under section 6(b)(1).
(e) INVESTMENT.—All sums deposited in, accruing to and
remaining in the Suspension Accounts shall be invested by the
Secretary and the Secretary of the Treasury in interest bearing
deposits and securities in accordance with the Act of June 24,
1938 (52 Stat. 1037, chapter 648; 25 U.S.C. 162a).
(f) WITHDRAWALS AND TERMINATION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—(A) Beginning on the date that is 5 years
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Crow Tribe and
the Northern Cheyenne Tribe may each submit a duly author-
ized request to the Secretary for the withdrawal of all of the
funds from the Suspension Account of the tribe established
under subsection (b).
(B) Not later than 60 days after receiving a request for
the distribution of funds from a Suspension Account made
by a tribe under subparagraph (A)—
(i) the Secretary shall, in cooperation with the Sec-
retary of the Treasury, withdraw and distribute such funds
in accordance with such request; and
(ii) the Secretary of the Treasury shall terminate the
Suspension Account.
(2) OTHER
MEANS
OF
TERMINATION.—With respect to a
Suspension Account established under subsection (b) that is
not terminated pursuant to paragraph (1), at such time as
the corpus and the accrued interest of the Suspension Account
of the Crow Tribe or the Northern Cheyenne Tribe is approxi-
mately equal to the amount specified in paragraph (1) or (2)
of subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury shall terminate
the Suspension Account and the Secretary of the Interior shall
distribute the funds from the Suspension Account to the tribe.
SEC. 11. FORT LARAMIE TREATY OF 1868.
Except for the adjustment to the eastern boundary of the Crow
Indian Reservation, nothing in this Act or in the Settlement Agree-
ment shall affect or modify the terms and conditions of the treaty
between the United States of America and the Crow Tribe of Indians
concluded May 7, 1868 (commonly known as the ‘‘Fort Laramie
Treaty of 1868’’; 15 Stat. 649).
SEC. 12. SATISFACTION OF CLAIMS.
The benefits available to the Crow Tribe under the terms
and conditions of this Act and the Settlement Agreement shall
constitute full and complete satisfaction of all claims by the Crow
Tribe and the members of the Crow Tribe arising from or related
to the erroneous survey of the 107th meridian described in section
2(a)(3).
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SEC. 13. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department
of the Interior such sums as are necessary to carry out this Act.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.