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PUBLIC LAW 91-551-DEC. 15, 1970

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may be permitted to enter the lands for purposes compatible with their preservation as a wilderness. The Secretary of the Interior shall be taryl^con'^strvation responsible for the establishment and maintenance of conservation responsibility. measures for these lands, including, without limitation, protection of forests from fire, disease, insects or trespass; prevention or elimination of erosion, damaging land use, or stream pollution; and maintenance of streamflow and sanitary conditions; and the Secretary is authorized to contract with the Secretary of Agriculture for any services or materials deemed necessary to institute or carry out any of such measures. "(c) Lessees or permittees of lands described in subsection (a) jaul^lenewaV^' which are not included in the lands described in the Act of May 31, l^nnqulshment. 1933, shall be given the opportunity to renew their leases or permits ^s Stat. los. under rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Interior to the same extent and in the same manner that such leases or permits could have been renewed if this Act had not been enacted; Ibut the Pueblo de Taos may obtain the relinquishment of any or all of such leases or permits from the lessees or permittees under such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreeable. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to disburse, from the tribal funds in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said tribe, so much thereof as may be necessary to pay for such relinquishments and for the purchase of any rights or improvements on said lands owned by nonIndians. The authority to pay for the relinquishment of a permit pursuant to this subsection shall not be regarded as a recognition of any property right of the permittee in the land or its resources. "(a) The Indian Claims Commission is directed to determine in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of the Act of August 13, 1946 (60 Stat. 1049, 1050), the extent to which the value of the interest 2s use 70a. in land conveyed by this Act should be credited to the United States or should be set off against any claim of the Taos Indians against the United States. "(e) Nothing in this section shall impair any vested water right." water rights. Approved December 15, 1970. Public Law 91-551 AN ACT

Dec>jmber 15, 1970

To amend sections 5580, 5581, and 5582 of the Revised Statutes to provide for additional members of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution and to increase the number of members constituting a quorum.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) section Smithsonian 5580 of the Revised Statutes (20 U.S.C. 42) is amended to read as ^"BO""" o"' follows:

Regents, addi-

"SEC. 5580. The business of the Institution shall be conducted at the '^°"^^ members. city of Washington by a Board of Regents, named the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, to be composed of the Vice President, the Chief Justice of the United States, three Members of the Senate, three Members of the House of Representatives, and nine other persons, other than Members of Congress, two of whom shall be resident in the city of Washington, and seven of whom shall be inhabitants of some State, but no two of them of the same State.".

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