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 PUBLIC LAW 95-337—AUG. 4, 1978

92 STAT. 455

Public Law 95-337 95th Congress An Act To declare that all right, title, and interest of the United States in two thousand seven hundred acres, more or less, are hereby held in trust for the Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fallon Indian Reservation and Colony, Fallon, Nevada, to promote the economic self-sufficiency of the Paiute and Shoshone Tribes, and for other purjwses.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of ATuercia in Congress assembled, That (a) subject to valid existing rights, all right, title, and interest of the United States in two thousand seven hundred acres, more or less, described below are hereby declared to be held in trust for the Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fallon Indian Reservation and Colony, Nevada: MOUNT DIABLO MERDJIAN

Township 19 north, range 29 east, section 29, south half northwest quarter northwest quarter and the southwest quarter northwest quarter: Township 19 north, range 30 east, section 2, northwest quarter; section 3, north half and southwest quarter; section 4, all; section 8, north half and southwest quarter; Township 20 north, range 30 east; section 33, south half; section 34, south half; section 35, west half southeast quarter and southwest quarter. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the United States shall be entitled to use, without compensation, for so long as necessary, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, four acres, more or less, of such lands referred to in subsection (a) for irrigation canal purposes. SEC. 2. The lands held in trust pursuant to this Act shall be included in and deemed a part of the Fallon Indian Reservation and Colony, Nevada. SEC. 3. The Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fallon Indian Reservation and Colony shall hereafter be entitled, beginning on October 1, 1978, to the revenues to be received by the United States under any existing lease, contract, permit, right-of-way, or easement covering lands declared to be held in trust by this Act. In the event that such trust lands do not cover all of the land embraced within any such lease, contract, permit, right-of-way, or easement, said tribes shall hereafter be entitled, beginning on October 1, 1978, to the proportionate amount of the revenues to be received by the United States under any existing lease, contract, permit, right-of-way, or easement which results from multiplying the total of such revenues by a fraction in which the numerator is the acreage of such lease, contract, permit, right-of-way, or easement which is included in the land declared to be held in trust pursuant to this Act and the denominator is the total acreage contained in such lease, contract, permit, right-of-way, or easement.

Aug. 4, 1978 [S. 785]

Paiute and Shoshone Tribes, Fallon Indian Reservation and Colony, Nev. Lands in trust.

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