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PUBLIC LAW 91-149-DEC. 22, 1969

and effect as to the remaining state and in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable mattei"S. "'(b) The agency shall have such additional powers and duties as may hereafter be delegated or imposed upon it from time to time by the action of the Legislature of either state concurred in by the T^egislature of the other. '•(c) A state party to this compact may withdraw therefrom by enacting a statute repealing the compact. Xotice of withdrawal shall be connnunicated officially and in writing to the Governor of the other state and to the agency administrators. This provision is not severable, and if it is held to be unconstitutional or invalid, no other provision of this compact shall be binding upon the State of XeAada or the State of California. " (d) No provision of this compact shall have any effect upon the allocation or distribution of interstate waters or upon any appropriative water right." SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture are authorized, upon request of the Tahoe Eegional Planning Agency, to cooperate with said agency in all respects compatible with carrying out the normal duties of their Departments. SEC. 3. The consent to the compact by the United States is subject to the condition that the President may appoint a nonvoting representative of the United States to the Tahoe regional planning governing board. SEC. 4. Any additional powers conferred on the agency pursuant to article VIII (b) of the compact shall not be exercised unless consented to by the Congress. SEC. 5. Nothing contained in this Act or in the compact consented to shall in any way affect the powers, rights, or obligations of the United States, or the applicability of any law or regulation of the United States in, over, or to the region or waters which are the subject of the compact, or in any way affect rights owned or held by or for Indians or Indian tribes subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. SEC. 6. The right is hereby reserved by the Congress or any of its standing conmiittees to require the disclosure and furnisliing of such information and data by or concerning the Tahoe Eegional Planning Agency as is deemed appropriate by the Congress or such committee. SEC. 7. The right to alter, amend or repeal this Act is expressly reserved. Approved December 18, 1969.

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Public Law 91-149 AN ACT

December 22, 1969

To dec-lare that the United States holds in t r u s t for the Southern Ute Tribe apl)r<«iniately 214..37 acres of land.

[ H. R. 12785]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all right, title, and interest of the United States in the lands described below, which are excess to the needs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, shall be held in trust by the United States for the Southern Ute Tribe subject to the laws and regulations that apply to other lands held in trust for the tribe: (a) The portion of the east half west half northeast quarter, section 5, lying west of the Pine River; that portion of the east half northeast quarter, section 5, lying Avest of the Pine River; and that portion of the northwest quarter northwest quarter, section 4,

Indians. Southern Ute Tribe. Lands in t r u s t.

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