An Act to declare that all right, title, and interest of the United States in two thousand seven hundred acres, more or less, are hereby held in trust for the Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fallon Indian Reservation and Colony, Fallon, Nevada, to promote the economic self-sufficiency of the Paiute and Shoshone Tribes, and for other purposes.
PL 95-337 (S.785), enacted 08/04/1978

PUBLIC LAW 95-337—AUG. 4, 1978 
92 STAT. 455 
Public Law 95-337 
95th Congress 
An Act 
To declare that all right, title, and interest of the United States in two thousand 
seven hundred acres, more or less, are hereby held in trust for the Paiute and 
Shoshone Tribes of the Fallon Indian Reservation and Colony, Fallon, Nevada, 
to promote the economic self-sufficiency of the Paiute and Shoshone Tribes, 
and for other purjwses. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of ATuercia in Congress assembled^ That (a) subject to 
valid existing rights, all right, title, and interest of the United States 
in two thousand seven hundred acres, more or less, described below are 
hereby declared to be held in trust for the Paiute and Shoshone Tribes 
of the Fallon Indian Reservation and Colony, Nevada: 
MOUNT DIABLO MERDJIAN 
Township 19 north, range 29 east, section 29, south half northwest 
quarter northwest quarter and the southwest quarter northwest 
quarter : 
Township 19 north, range 30 east, section 2, northwest quarter; 
section 3, north half and southwest quarter; section 4, all; section 8, 
north half and southwest quarter; 
Township 20 north, range 30 east; section 33, south half; section 
34, south half; section 35, west half southeast quarter and southwest 
quarter. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the United 
States shall be entitled to use, without compensation, for so long as 
necessary, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, four acres, 
more or less, of such lands referred to in subsection (a) for irrigation 
canal purposes. 
SEC. 2. The lands held in trust pursuant to this Act shall be included 
in and deemed a part of the Fallon Indian Reservation and Colony, 
Nevada. 
SEC. 3. The Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fallon Indian Res-
ervation and Colony shall hereafter be entitled, beginning on Octo-
ber 1, 1978, to the revenues to be received by the United States under 
any existing lease, contract, permit, right-of-way, or easement covering 
lands declared to be held in trust by this Act. In the event that such 
trust lands do not cover all of the land embraced within any such lease, 
contract, permit, right-of-way, or easement, said tribes shall here-
after be entitled, beginning on October 1, 1978, to the proportionate 
amount of the revenues to be received by the United States under any 
existing lease, contract, permit, right-of-way, or easement which 
results from multiplying the total of such revenues by a fraction in 
which the numerator is the acreage of such lease, contract, permit, 
right-of-way, or easement which is included in the land declared to be 
held in trust pursuant to this Act and the denominator is the total acre-
age contained in such lease, contract, permit, right-of-way, or easement. 
Aug. 4, 1978 
[S. 785] 
Paiute and 
Shoshone Tribes, 
Fallon Indian 
Reservation and 
Colony, Nev. 
Lands in trust. 
92 STAT. 456 
PUBLIC LAW 95-337—AUG. 4, 1978 
SEC. 4. The Fallon Paiute and Shoshone Tribes Business Council 
or the Secretary of the Interior, acting at the request of the tribes, 
is authorized to acquire, with funds provided by the Fallon Paiute 
and Shoshone Tribes, through purchase, gift, or exchange, the water 
rights appurtenant to any allotted lands within the boundaries of the 
Fallon Indian Reservation. The title to all water rights acquired, 
transferred, or developed under the authority of this Act shall be 
held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Paiute and 
Shoshone Tribes of the Fallon Indian Reservation in Nevada. Nothing 
in this Act shall be construed to permit the transfer of water rights 
from lands within the existing Fallon Indian Reservation to lands 
added to the reservation by this Act. 
SEC. 5. (a) The Fallon Paiute and Shoshone Tribes Business Coun-
cil or the Secretary of the Interior, acting at the request of the tribes, 
is authorized to acquire, with funds provided by the Fallon Paiute 
and Shoshone Tribes, through purchase, gift, or exchange any lands 
or interest in lands within the boundaries of the Fallon Indian Reser-
vation in Nevada for the purpose of consolidating landholdings, 
eliminating fractionated heirship interests in Indian trust lands, pro-
viding land for any tribal program for the improvement of the 
economy of the tribe and its members through the development of 
industry, recreational facilities, housing projects, and the general 
rehabilitation and enhancement of the total resource potential of the 
reservation. Title to any land acquired under the authority of this 
Act shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the 
Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fallon Indian Reservation in 
Nevada. 
(b) Nothing in this section or section 4 of this Act shall confer 
any authority or impose any requirement on the Secretary to exchange, 
dispose of, or otherwise utilize other lands or interests therein under 
his administration in connection with any exchange, disposal, or acqui-
sition of Indian trust land or interests therein authorized by this 
section and section 4 of this Act. Nothing in this section or in section 
4 of this Act shall supersede or repeal by implication the requirements 
of the Act of October 21, 1976 (90 Stat. 2743). Any acquisition or 
exchange pursuant to this section or section 4 of this Act which 
involves public lands or interests therein as defined in the Act of 
October 21, 1976, shall also meet the requirements of said 1976 Act. 
SEC. 6. Nothing in this Act shall affect rights subject to adjudica-
tion in United States against Alpine Land and Reservoir Company, 
et al.. Equity No. D-183, U.S. Dist. Ct., Nevada, and United States 
against Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, et al., Civ. No. R-2987, 
U.S. Dist. Ct., Nevada. 
PUBLIC LAW 95-337—AUG. 4, 1978 
92 STAT. 457 
SEC. 7. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to 
make as his first priority: (a) the improvement and extension of the 
existing system for the delivery and distribution of irrigation water 
within the Fallon Indian Reservation; (b) the construction of such 
additional canals, laterals, and irrigation works as are necessary to 
deliver sufficient water to irrigate the practicably irrigable acres 
included in the Fallon Indian Reservation pursuant to this Act; and, 
(c) the subjugation of up to one thousand eight hundred acres for 
agricultural purposes. 
Approved August 4, 1978. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 95-1298 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). 
SENATE REPORT No. 95-417 (Comm. on Indian Affairs). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: 
VoL 123 (1977): Oct. 17, considered and passed Senate. 
Vol. 124 (1978): July 17, considered and passed House, amended. 
July 21, Senate concurred in House amendments.