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 PUBLIC LAW 99-398—AUG. 27, 1986

100 STAT. 849

Public Law 99-398 99th Congress An Act To provide for the restoration of the Federal trust relationship with, and Federal services and assistance to, the Klamath Tribe of Indians and the individual members thereof consisting of the Klamath and Modoc Tribes and the Yahooskin Band of Snake Indians, and for other purposes.

Aug. 27, 1986 [H.R. 3554]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Klamath Indian United States of America in Congress assembled,

Tribe Restoration Act. Oregon

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the "Klamath Indian Tribe Restoration Act". SEC.

2.

RESTORATION OF PRIVILEGES.

FEDERAL

RECOGNITION.

RIGHTS.

25 USC 566 note

AND 25 USC 566.

(a) FEDERAL RECOGNITION.—Notwithstanding any provision of law,

Federal recognition is hereby extended to the tribe and to members of the tribe. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, all laws and regulations of the United States of general application to Indians or nations, tribes, or bands of Indians which are not inconsistent with any specific provision of this Act shall be applicable to the tribe and its members. (b) RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES.—All rights and privi-

leges of the tribe and the members of the tribe under any Federal treaty, Executive order, agreement, or statute, or any other Federal authority, which may have been diminished or lost under the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the termination of Federal supervision over the property of the Klamath Tribe of Indians located in the State of Oregon and the individual members thereof, and for other purposes", approved August 13, 1954 (25 U.S.C. 564 et seq.), are restored, and the provisions of such Act, to the extent that they are inconsistent with this Act, shall be inapplicable to the tribe and to members of the tribe after the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) FEDERAL SERVICES AND BENEFITS.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the tribe and its members shall be eligible, on and after the date of the enactment of this Act, for all Federal services and benefits furnished to federally recognized Indian tribes or their members without regard to the existence of a reservation for the tribe. In the case of Federal services available to members of federally recognized Indian tribes residing on or near a reservation, members of the tribe residing in Klamath County shall be deemed to be residing in or near a reservation. Any member residing in Klamath County shall continue to be eligible to receive any such Federal service notwithstanding the establishment of a reservation for the tribe in the future. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the tribe shall be considered an Indian tribe for the purpose of the "Indian Tribal Government Tax Status Act" (Sec. 7871, I.R.C. 1954). 26 USC 7871.

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