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 100 STAT. 404

PUBLIC LAW 99-283—MAY 1, 1986

Public Law 99-283 99th Congress

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May 1, 1986 [S. 1684]

Contracts.

Federal Register, publication. Minerals and mining.

Minerals and mining.

An Act

To declare that the United States holds certain Chilocco Indian School lands in trust for the Kaw, Otoe-Missouria, Pawnee, Ponca, and Tonkawa Indian Tribes of Oklahoma.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. (a) Except as provided in section 2 of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall partition the interests of the United States in the approximately 5,824 acres of land in Oklahoma known as the Chilocco Indian School Reserve among the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and the Pawnee, Ponca, Otoe-Missouria, Kaw, and Tonkawa Tribes of Oklahoma in line with the agreement of August 30, 1985 among those six tribes. The interests which are partitioned to the last five named tribes jointly shall be further partitioned by the Secretary in line with an agreement among those tribes. Qa) The interests partitioned to a tribe under this section are declared to be held in trust by the United States for that tribe. (c) The Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register a description of the interests in land partitioned and held in trust under this section. SEC. 2. The interest of the United States in the minerals in the approximately 5,824 acres of land identified in section 1 of this Act are declared to be held in trust jointly for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and the Pawnee, Ponca, Otoe-Missouria, Kaw, and Tonkawa Tribes of Oklahoma. The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma shall act for all six tribes in decisions involving those mineral interests. The Secretary shall hold 50 percent of the income from those mineral interests in trust for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and 10 percent of that income in trust for each of the other five tribes. SEC. 3. Nothing in this Act shall deprive any person of any right or interest in the land identified in section 1. SEC. 4. The unobligated balance of the income (after provision for payment of maintenance and other costs incurred before the enactment of this Act) derived by the Secretary from the interests in the land identified in section 1 of this Act shall be used in accordance with the provision from the Act of September 10, 1982 (96 Stat, at 839) codified in section 155b of title 25, United States Code (1982 Edition) and divided as follows: (1) of the part of the balance that the Secretary decides is attributed to income from other than mineral interests— (A) 75 percent shall be used as jointly requested by the governing bodies of the Pawnee, Ponca, Otoe-Missouria, Kaw, and Tonkawa Tribes of Oklahoma; and (B) 25 percent shall be used as requested by the governing body of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
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