Joint resolution to cancel any unpaid reimbursable construction costs of the Wind River Indian irrigation project, Wyoming, chargeable against certain non-Indian lands
PL 89-364 (S.J.Res.9), enacted 03/08/1966

80 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 89-364-MAR. 8, 1966 
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(4) Administrative site in the Borrego grant, comprising four 
hmidred and twenty-eight acres, more or less, excluding minerals 
therein, to the Indians of the Pueblo of Zia. 
SEC. 2. The Indian Claims Commission is directed to determine in 
accordance with the provisions of section 2 of the Act of August 13, 
1946 (60 Stat. 1050), the extent to which the value of lands and 
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improvements placed in a trust status under the authority of this Act 
should or should not be set off against any claim against the United 
States determined by the Commission. 
Approved March 7, 1966. 
Public Law 89-364 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To cancel any unpaid reimbursable construction costs of the Wind River Indian 
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irrigation project, Wyoming, chargeable against certain non-Indian lands. 
March 8, 1966 
Wind River In-
dian irrigation 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) all reimbursable ^^^ ^ ^
^ 
construction costs heretofore incurred at the Wind Kiver Indian irri- proj'ectVVyo"' 
gation project, Wyoming, shall be allocated against the total irrigable ^^^"s"^''^''""" 
acreage in the project according to the present land classifications. 
(b) The costs so allocated to land that passed out of Indian owner-
ship prior to March 7, 1928, shall be canceled by the Secretary of the 
Interior if the patent from the United States contained no recital to 
the effect that the land is subject to irrigation construction charges, 
and the purchaser did not sign a contract to pay construction charges. 
Such cancellation, however, shall take effect with respect to any indi-
vidual landowner when and only when the said owner obligates him-
self, his heirs, and assigns by contract satisfactory in form and 
substance to the Secretary that he will pay all reasonable construction 
charges incurred after the date of this Act in connection with the 
Wind River Indian irrigation project which are allocated to his land 
as provided in this Act and that such charges, if not paid, shall be a 
lien against the land. 
(c) Land that passed out of Indian ownership prior to March 7, 
^^"'^ subject to 
1928, shall, if the patent from the United States contains a recital to 
the effect that the land is subject to irrigation construction charges, 
either past or future, be subject to a lien in favor of the United States 
for such charges. 
(d) Reimbursable construction charges hereafter incurred at the constmc't-^on''^^ 
Wind River Indian irrigation project, Wyoming, shall be allocated charges! '°" 
against all irrigable acreage in the project according to land classifica-
tions then in effect, shall be a lien against the land, and shall not be 
subject to cancellation on the ground that the land was conveyed with 
a paid-up construction charge. Any such paid-up construction charge 
shall be deemed to mean a construction charge incurred prior to the 
date of this Act. 
Approved March 8, 1966.