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PUBLIC LAW 85-923-SEPT. 2, 1958

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Public Law 85-923 AN ACT

To provide for additional payments to the Indians of the Lower Brule Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, whose lands have been acquired for the Fort Randall Dam and Reservoir project, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to pay to the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and the individual Indian owners, out of funds made available for the Fort Randall Dam and Reservoir project, in settlement of all claims, rights, and demands of said tribe and its members arising out of the construction of the Fort Randall Dam and Reservoir project, an amount eq^ual to the difference between $976,523 and the sum paid for the taking of lands in condemnation proceedings entitled "United States of America, Plaintiff against 7,996.62 acres of land etc. and Lower Brule Tribe of Sioux Indians et al.. Defendants", civil numbered 186, filed in the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota. SEC. 2. The payments authorized by section 1 of this Act shall be deposited to the credit of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe in the Treasury of the United States to draw interest on the principal at the rate of 4 per centum per annum until expended. The sum of $85,242.35 shall be allocated to the former owners on a prorated basis in accordance with the tract and ownership schedules set forth in the condemnation proceedings referred to in section 1, after consultation wnth the Missouri River Basin investigation staff and the tribal council to correct known errors. The amounts allocated to the lands owned by individual Indians shall be credited to their respective individual Indian money accounts. No part of the compensation for the property taken by the condemnation proceedings referred to in section 1, whether paid in the proceedings or under this Act, shall be subject to any lien, debt, or claim of any nature whatsoever against the tribe or individual Indians except delinquent debts owed by the tribe to the United States or owed by individual Indians to the tribe or to the United States. The cost of moving dwellings and other buildings owned by the Indians from the Fort Randall Dam and Reservoir project area shall be paid out of the part of the payment authorized under section 1 and payable to the tribe. SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Army shall revest or cause to be revested in the former owners all of the right, title, and interest of the United States in minerals acquired through the condemnation proceedings referred to in section 1 of this Act; but the exploration, exploitation, and development of the minerals, including oil and gas, shall be subject to all reasonable regulations which may be imposed by the Secretary of the Army for the protection of the Fort Randall Dam and Reservoir project. SEC. 4. Individual Indians and the tribe are authorized without charge to retain timber and improvements previously removed by them from the lands acquired in the condemnation proceedings referred to in section 1 hereof; and former owners shall also have the right, without charge, prior to September 30, 1958, to cut and remove any remaining timber and salvage any remaining improvements on the respective lands acquired from them in said condemnation proceedings; but, if said rights are waived or not exercised by September 30, 1958, the tribe, through the tribal council, may, prior to January 1, 1959, exercise the rights: Provided, That the salvage previously accomplished or permitted by this section shall not be construed to be double compensation.

September 2, 1958 [H.R. 12663]

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