Opinion ID: 210370
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Heading: Control of Coal Resource Planning

Text: The government assumed coal resource planning responsibilities in the Navajo-Hopi Rehabilitation Act of 1950. [3] Specifically, the Act authorized and directed the government to embark on a program of basic improvements for the conservation and development of the resources of the Navajo and Hopi Indians, . . . and the supplying of means to be used in their rehabilitation. 25 U.S.C. § 631. The Act thus appropriated $500,000 and funds from time to time appropriated pursuant to this subchapter for [s]urveys and studies of timber, coal, mineral, and other physical and human resources and mandated that the Nation be kept informed and afforded opportunity to consider from their inception plans pertaining to the program authorized. Id. §§ 631, 638 (emphasis added). In the context of the Act, it is clear that the government conducted such surveys and studies of the Nation's coal resources for the purpose of developing the coal economically.