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 100 STAT. 1798

PUBLIC LAW 99-503—OCT. 20, 1986

Public Law 99-503 99th Congress

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An Act Oct. 20, 1986 [H.R. 4216]

To provide for the replacement of certain lands within the Gila Bend Indian Reservation, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Gila Bend Indian United States of America in Congress assembled, Reservation t^"?^ ^ Replacement Act

Public lands. Agriculture and agricultural commodities. Arizona.

96 Stat. 1282.

SHORT TITLE

SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Gila Bend Indian Reservation Lands Replacement Act". CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS

SEC. 2. The Congress finds that: (1) Section 308 of Public Law 97-293 authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to exchange certain agricultural lands of the Gila Bend Indian Reservation, Arizona, for public lands suitable for farming. (2) An examination of public lands within a one-hundred-mile radius of the reservation disclosed that those which might be suitable for agriculture would require substantial Federal outlays for construction of irrigation systems, roads, education and health facilities. (3) The lack of an appropriate land base severely retards the economic self-sufficiency of the O'odham people of the Gila Bend Indian Reservation, contributes to their high unemployment and acute health problems, and results in chronic high costs for Federal services and transfer payments. (4) This Act will facilitate replacement of reservation lands with lands suitable for sustained economic use which is not principally farming and do not require Federal outlays for construction, and promote the economic self-sufficiency of the O'odham Indian people. DEFINITIONS

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SEC. 3. For the purposes of this Act, the term: (1) "Central Arizona Project" means the project authorized under title III of the Colorado River Basin Project Act (82 Stat. 887; 43 U.S.C. 1521, et seq.). (2) "Tribe" means the Tohono O'odham Nation, formerly known as the Papago Tribe of Arizona, organized under section 16 of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 987; 25 U.S.C. 476). (3) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior. (4) "San Lucy District" means the political subdivision of the Tohono O'odham Nation exercising governmental functions on the Gila Bend Indian Reservation.

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