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 70 S T A T; ]

PUBLIC LAW 943-AUG. 3, 1966

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elude any Federal agency from undertaking any other program for the education and training of Indians with funds appropriated to it. Corporate SEC. 9. (a) Effective three years after the date of this Act, the corpo- terminated. charter rate charter issued pursuant to the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967), 25 USC 501. as amended, to the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma and ratified by the tribe on November 30, 1938, is hereby revoked. (b) Effective three ^ears after the date of this Act, all powers of the Secretary of the Interior or other officer of the United States to take, reviev*% or approve any action under the constitution and bylaws of the Ottawa Tribe are hereby terminated. Any powers conferred upon the tribe by such constitution which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby terminated. Such termination shall not affect the power of the tribe to take any action under its constitution and bylaws that is consistent with this Act without the participation of the Secretary or other officer of the United States. SEC. 10. Nothing in this Act shall affect any claims heretofore filed against the United States by the Ottawa Tribe. SEC. 11. Nothing in this Act shall abrogate any water rights of the Ottawa Tribe or its members. SEC. 12. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue rules Regulations. and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act and may in his discretion provide for tribal referendums on matters pertaining to management or disposition of tribal assets. SEC. 13. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed insofar as they affect the Ottawa Tribe or its members. The Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967), and the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984), as amended by the Act of June 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 378), 25 USC 461. shall not apply to the tribe and its members three years after the date of this Act. SEC. 14. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof, to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. Roll of SEC. 15. (a) The tribe shall have a period of six months from the P u b 11 cmemberii. a tion in date of this Act in which to prepare and submit to the Secretary a pro- FR. posed roll of the members of the tribe living on the date of this Act, which shall be published in the Federal Register. The proposed roll shall be prepared in accordance with eligibility requirements prescribed in the tribe's constitution and bylaws. If the tribe fails to submit such roll within the time specified in this section, the Secretary shall prepare a proposed roll for the tribe, which shall be published in the Federal Register. Any person claiming membership rights in the tribe or any interest in its assets, or a representative of the Secretary on behalf of any such person, may, within sixty days from the date of publication of the proposed roll, file an appeal with the Secretary contesting the inclusion or omission of the name of any person on or from such roll. The Secretary shall review such appeals and his decisions thereon shall be final and conclusive. After disposition of all such appeals by the Secretary, the roll of the tribe shall be published in the Federal Register, and such roll shall be final for the purposes of this Act.

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