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 PUBLIC LAW 105-132—DEC. 2, 1997 111 STAT. 2563 Public Law 105-132 105th Congress An Act To provide certain benefits of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin program to the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the "Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Infrastructure Development Trust Fund Act". SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds that— (1) under the Act of December 22, 1944, commonly known as the "Flood Control Act of 1944" (58 Stat. 887, chapter 665; 33 U.S.C. 701-1 et seq.) Congress approved the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin program— (A) to promote the general economic development of the United States; (B) to provide for irrigation above Sioux City, Iowa; (C) to protect urban and rural areas from devastating floods of the Missouri River; and (D) for other purposes; (2) the Fort Randall and Big Bend projects are major components of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin program, and contribute to the nationtd economy by generating a substantial gimount of hydropower and impounding a substantial quantity of water; (3) the Fort Randall and Big Bend projects overUe the eastern boundary of the Lower Brule Indian Reservation, having inundated the fertile, wooded bottom lands of the Tribe along the Missouri River that constituted the most productive agricultural and pastoral lands of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and the homelsind of the members of the Tribe; (4) Public Law 85-923 (72 Stat. 1773 et seq.) authorized the acquisition of 7,997 acres of Indian land on the Lower Brule Indian Reservation for the Fort Randall project and Public Law 87-734 (76 Stat. 698 et seq.) authorized the acquisition of 14,299 acres of Indian Isuid on the Lower Brule Indieui Reservation for the Big Bend project; Dec. 2, 1997 [S. 156] Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Infrastructure Development Trust Fund Act.

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