An Act to provide for the assessing of Indian trust and restricted lands within the Lummi Indian diking project on the Lummi Indian Reservation in the State of Washington, through a drainage and diking district formed under the laws of the State
PL 89-190 (S.795), enacted 09/17/1965

79 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 89-190-SEPT. 17, 1965 
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Public Law 89-190 
A N A C T 
September 17, 1965 
To provide for the assessing of Indian trust and restricted lands within the ^^_ElZ£i!] 
Lummi Indian diking project on the Lummi Indian Reservation in the State 
of Washington, through a drainage and diking district formed under the laws 
of the State. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Indian dikuig'^'roj'e''=f" 
trust or restricted lands within the limits of the Lummi Indian lands. 
diking project as established by the Act of March 18, 1926 (44 Stat. 
211), may be included in, and may be assessed for operation and 
maintenance, betterment, and construction by, any diking and drain-
age district that may be formed under the diking and drainage laws 
of the State of Washington: Provided^ That such Indian lands shall 
be assessed on the same basis that all other lands within the district 
are assessed. 
Such assessment may be collected in accordance with 
the laws of the State of Washington, except that no Indian trust 
or restricted lands shall be sold for the collection of an assessment 
without the consent of the Secretary of the Interior. If the Secre-
tary refuses to consent to such sale, he shall pay the assessment 
out of any appropriation or fund available therefor. 
Any portion of 
such payment which the Secretary determines to be within the ability 
of the Indian owner to pay shall become a lien against the land, 
subject to the provisions of the Act of July 1, 1932 (47 Stat. 564). 
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SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Interior shall cancel all outstand- 
outstanding 
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charges, cancel-
ing charges for construction, operation, and maintenance, including lation. 
any interest or penalties, outstanding on the date this section becomes 
effective. 
(b) All assessments against each tract of land within the project f^^^^^^" °^ 
which on the date of this Act is in a trust or restricted status and which 
have heretofore been collected for construction, operation, and main-
tenance, including interest and penalties, and deposited in the Treasury 
shall be transferred on the books of the Treasury into an account that 
shall be available to the Secretary of the Interior to pay any assess-
ments hereafter made against each such tract pursuant to this Act. 
(c) The provisions of subsections (a) and (h) of this section shall 
become effective on the date of approval of the organization by the 
Whatcom County commissioners of the new diking and drainage 
district. 
(d) Operation and maintenance assessments shall continue to be °intenl^"eTs 
made but their collection shall be suspended for not to exceed two sessments. 
3'ears until the new diking and drainage district is formed. 
If the 
new district is formed within such two-year period such assessments 
shall be canceled. If the new district is not formed within such period 
the assessments shall be collected with interest and penalties thereafter 
accruing. 
SEC. 3. At such time as the diking and drainage district covering 
Conveyance. 
the Indian trust and restricted lands within the Lummi diking proj-
ect shall be established under the laws of Washington and shall be in 
operation, the Government shall thereupon be relieved of any further 
responsibility of whatever nature in connection with the operation 
and maintenance, betterment, or construction of any dikes, structures, 
drains, or any appurtenant works existing on the Lummi diking proj-
ect, including any responsibility for damages that may result from 
the failure of any dikes, drains, structures, or appurtenant works 
heretofore or hereafter constructed. Any equipment and funds stand-
ing to the credit of the Lummi diking project on the books of the 
Secretary of the Interior at such time shall be paid and turned over 
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Hunting and 
fishing rights. 
to such diking and drainage district if the owners of nonrestricted 
lands in the new district contribute an amount equal to the value of 
such equipment and funds. 
Any right, title, or interest of the United 
States in and to any of the dikes or other structures erected as part 
of the Lummi diking project, and the lands on which they are located, 
shall be deemed to be conveyed to the county of Whatcom, State of 
Washington, for the use and benefit of such diking and drainage 
district on the date the district is organized. 
The Bureau of Indian 
Affairs is directed to make available to such diking and drainage dis-
trict or to the county of Whatcom any information, data, or documents 
which may assist in its organization or operation. 
SEC. 4. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the Lummi 
Indians' hunting or fishing rights. 
Approved September 17, 1965. 
September 17, 1965 
[H. R. 725] 
Coast Guard. 
63 Stat. 501. 
Public Law 89-191 
AN ACT 
To clarify the responsibility for marking of obstructions in navigable waters. 
Be it eTMCted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 86 of 
title 14, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
"§ 86. Marking of obstructions 
"The Secretary may mark for the protection of navigation any 
sunken vessel or other obstruction existing on any navigable waters of 
the United States in such manner and for so long as, in his judgment, 
the needs of maritime navigation require. The owner of such an 
obstruction shall be liable to the United States for the cost of such 
marking until such time as the obstruction is removed or its abandon-
ment legally established or until such earlier time as the Secretary may 
determine. All moneys received by the United States from the owners 
of obstructions, in accordance with this section, shall be covered into 
the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. 
This 
section shall not be construed so as to relieve the owner of any such 
obstruction from the duty and responsibility suitably to mark the 
same and remove it as required by law." 
Approved September 17, 1965. 
September 21, 1965 
[S. J. Res. 89] 
Mary McLeod 
Bethune memo-
rial. 
Public Law 89-192 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Extending for two years the existing authority for the erection in the District 
of Columbia of a memorial to Mary McI^ecKl Bethune. 
Resolved hy the Semite and House of RepreserUaftves of the United 
States of America 
m Congress asseinbled, That, effective June 1, 
1965, the last sentence of the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution 
authorizing the erection in the District of Columbia of a memorial 
to Mary McLeod Bethune", approved June 1, 1960 (74 Stat. 154), is 
amended by striking out "within five years" and inserting in lieu 
thereof "within seven years*'. 
Approved September 21, 1965.