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 106 STAT. 2120 PUBLIC LAW 102-415—OCT. 14, 1992 Secretary shall approve the amended application for the land reconveyed, and abjudicate the remainder of the allotment application. The approval of an amended application under this paragraph shall be a final and conclusive determination of the validity of the allotment. (B) The Secretary shall— (i) survey each allotment approved pursuant to this paragraph; and (ii) issue a Native allotment certificate to the applicant or to the heirs of the applicant. (3)(A) Each Native allotment certificate issued to an applicant or the heirs of the applicant pursuant to paragraph (2)(B) shall be subject to any existing easements or any other right that had been reserved, conveyed, transferred, or recognized by the United States prior to the issuance of the certificate. (B) Each conveyance by the Secretary to any applicant, or to the heirs of the applicant.under this subsection shall reserve to the United States— (i) except as provided in subparagraph (C), all interests in oil, gas, and coal in the land, and the right of the United States, or a lessee or assignee of the United States, to enter upon land conveyed to the applicant or to the heirs of the applicant, to drill, explore, mine, produce, and remove the oil, gas, or coal; and (ii) all other rights reasonably incident to the mineral reservations described in clause (i). (C) If the oil, gas, or coal described in subparagraph (B)(i) was previously conveyed to the Regional Corporation and the Regional Corporation reserves those interests in any conveyance to the United States, the reconveyance by the Secretary to the applicant or to the heirs of the applicant shall reserve from the conveyance for the benefit of the Regional Corporation the same rights and privileges that would have oeen reserved for the United States. (4) With respect to any reconveyance of land (or any interest in the land) by the Regional Corporation to the United States that does not convey the entire mineral estete, the Regional Corporation shall not be entitled either— (A) to a reduction of the acreage charged against the entitlement under the Act; or (B) to select mineral intereste to replace the acreage. (e) REDUCTION IN CHARGED ACREAGE. —(1) Except as provided in subsection (d)(4), if the Village Corporation and the Regional Corporation reconvey land (or any interest in the land) to the United States under the authority of subsection (b) or (d)(D, the Secretary shall reduce the acreage charged against the entitlement of the Village Corporation and the Regional Corporation pursuant to the Act. (2)(A) To the extent that the reconveyance to the United States of land, or intereste in land, by the Village Corporation and the Regional Corporation under this section resulte in a reduction in the acreage charged against the entitlement of the Village Corporation and Regional Corporation under paragraph (1), the Village Corporation shall be entitled to make selections in lieu of the reconveyed land (or any interest in the land). (B) The amount of any acreage reconveyed by the Village Corporation under this section shall be added to the amount of other

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