An Act to amend the Act entitled ""An Act to authorize the partition or sale of Inherited interests in allotted lands in the Tulalip Reservation, Washington, and for other purposes"", approved June 18, 1956 (70 Stat. 290)
PL 91-274 (H.R.11372), enacted 06/02/1970

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91-44 and this section, said total amount to include the sum authorized 
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by section 106 of Public Law 91-44. The Commission is also authorized as^fg^t'^jic"^^ 
hereby, without regard to the provisions of section 3679 of the Revised 
Statutes, as amended, to agree under said cooperative arrangement to 
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provide assistance up to a total amount of $50,000,000 less the sums 
available to the Commission and utilized for the Project Definition 
Phase contracts authorized pursuant to section 106 of Public Law 
91-44 and this section; and, in addition to said total amount, in the 
Commission's discretion, to provide assistance up to a total amount of 
$20,000,000 in the form of Commission-furnished services, facilities or 
equipment otherwise available to or planned by the Commission under 
its civilian base program: Pvocided^ That said ceiling amounts shall 
waiver. 
not be deemed to include assistance in the form of waiver of use charges 
during the term of the cooperative arrangement and the Commission 
may agree to provide such assistance without regard to the provisions 
of section 53 of the Atomic Energy Act, as amended, by waiving use 73^1431^603^°' 
charges in an amount not to exceed $10,000,000. 
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(b) Before the Commission enters into any arrangement or amend- 
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ment thereto under the authority of subsection (a) of this section, suhmfrffo'll^" ' 
the basis for the arrangement or amendment thereto which the Com- J°int committee 
mission proposes to execute (including the name of the proposed par- °" '°'"^'' Energy. 
ticipating party or parties with whom the arrangement is to be made, 
a general description of the proposed powerplaiit, the estimated 
amount of cost to be incurred by the Commission and by the participat-
ing parties, and the general features of the proposed arrangement or 
amendment) shall be submitted to the Joint Committee on i^tomic 
Energy, and a period of forty-five days shall elapse while Congress is 
in session (in computing such forty-five days, there shall be excluded 
the days on which either House is not in session because of adjourn-
ment for more than three days) : Provided^ however^ That the Joint 
waiver. 
Committee, after having received the basis for a proposed arrange-
ment or amendment thereto, may by resolution in writing waive the 
conditions of, or all or any portion of, such forty-five day period: 
Provided 
further^ That such arrangement or amendment shall be 
entered into in accordance with the basis for the arrangement or amend-
ment submitted as provided herein: And provided furthsr^ That no 
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basis for arrangement need be resubmitted to the Joint Committee for 
the sole reason that the estimated amount of the cost to be incurred 
by the Commission exceeds the estimated cost previously submitted 
to the Joint Committee by not more than 15 per cent\im. 
Approved June 2, 1970. 
Public Law 91-274 
AN ACT 
June 2, 1970 
To amend the Act entitled "An Aet to anthorize the partition or sale of inherited 
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interests in allotted lands in the Tulalip Reservation, Washington, and for 
other purposes", approved June IS, 1956 (70 Stat. 290). 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of JRepresentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of the ^a^uon^'wish!^'^' 
Act entitled "An Act to authorize the partition or sale of inherited ^ Lands. 
interests in allotted lands in the Tulalip Reservation, Washington, and 
for other purposes", approved June 18, 1956 (70 Stat. 290, 25 U.S.C. 
403a-2), is amended to read as follows: 
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Lands in trust. 
Mortgages. 
Moneys or 
credits. 
Long-term 
leases. 
81 Stat. 559. 
73 Stat. 597; 
Post, p. 303. 
"SEC. 2. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of the constitution and 
charter of the Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip Reservation, any hinds 
that are held by the United States in trust for the Tulalip Tribes, or 
that are subject to a restriction against alienation or taxation imposed 
by the United States, or tliat are on and after June 18, 1956, acquired 
by the Tulalip Tribes, may be sold by the Tulalip Tribes, with the 
consent of the Secretary of the Interior, on such terms and conditions 
as the Tulalip board of directors may prescribe, and such sale shall 
terminate the Federal trust or restrictions against alienation or taxa-
tion of the land; except that the trust or restricted status of said lands 
may be retained, upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior, in any 
sale thereof to any member of the Tulalip Tribes. 
"(b) The Secretary of the Interior may accept any transfer of title 
from the Tulalip Tribes for any land or fractional interest in land 
within the boundaries of the Tulalip Reservation, and take title to such 
land in the name of the United States in trust for the Tulalip Tribes, 
and such lands shall not be subject to taxation. 
"(c) The Tulalip Tribes may, with the approval of the Secretary of 
the Interior, execute mortgages or deeds of trust to land, the title to 
which is held by the Tulalip Tribes or by the United States in trust for 
the Tulalip Tribes. Such land shall be subject to foreclosure and sale 
pursuant to the terms of such mortgage or deed of trust in accordance 
with the laws of the State of Washington. For the purpose of any fore-
closure or sale jjroceeding, the Tulalip Tribes shall be regarded as 
vested with an unrestricted fee simple title to the land, the United 
States shall not be a necessary party to the foreclosure or sale proceed-
ing, and any conveyance of the land pursuant to the foreclosure or sale 
proceeding shall divest the United States of title to the land. Title to 
any land redeemed or acquired by the Tulalip Tribes at such fore-
closure or sale proceeding shall be taken in the name of the United 
States in trust for the tribes. Title to any land purchased by an indi-
vidual Indian member of the Tulalip Tribes at such foreclosure sale 
or proceeding may, with the consent of the Secretary of the Interior, be 
taken in the name of the United States in trust for the individual 
Indian purchaser. 
"(d) Any moneys or credits received or credited to the Tulalip 
Tribes from the sale, exchange, mortgage, or granting of any security 
interest in any tribal land may be used for any tribal purpose."' 
SEC. 2. The first section of the Act of August 9,1955 (69 Stat. 589), 
as amended (25 IT.S.C. 415), is amended by inserting after "the Gila 
Riv^er Reservation," the following: "the Tulalip Indian Reservation,"'. 
SEC. 8. Section 1 of the Act of August 9, 1955 (69 Stat. 589), as 
amended (25 U.S.C. 415), is redesignated as subsection 1(a) and a 
new subsection 1 (b) is added as follows: 
"(b) Any lease by the Tulalip Tribes under subsection (a) of this 
section, except a lease for the ex])loitation of any natural resource, shall 
not require the ajiproval of the Secretary of the Interior (1) if the 
term of the lease does not exceed fifteen years, with no option to renew, 
or (2) if the term of the lease does not exceed thirty years, with no 
option to renew, and the lease is executed jjursuant to tribal regulations 
previously approved by the Secretary of the Interior."' 
Approved June 2, 1970.