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 92 STAT. 456

PUBLIC LAW 95-337—AUG. 4, 1978 SEC. 4. The Fallon Paiute and Shoshone Tribes Business Council or the Secretary of the Interior, acting at the request of the tribes, is authorized to acquire, with funds provided by the Fallon Paiute and Shoshone Tribes, through purchase, gift, or exchange, the water rights appurtenant to any allotted lands within the boundaries of the Fallon Indian Reservation. The title to all water rights acquired, transferred, or developed under the authority of this Act shall be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fallon Indian Reservation in Nevada. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to permit the transfer of water rights from lands within the existing Fallon Indian Reservation to lands added to the reservation by this Act. SEC. 5. (a) The Fallon Paiute and Shoshone Tribes Business Council or the Secretary of the Interior, acting at the request of the tribes, is authorized to acquire, with funds provided by the Fallon Paiute and Shoshone Tribes, through purchase, gift, or exchange any lands or interest in lands within the boundaries of the Fallon Indian Reservation in Nevada for the purpose of consolidating landholdings, eliminating fractionated heirship interests in Indian trust lands, providing land for any tribal program for the improvement of the economy of the tribe and its members through the development of industry, recreational facilities, housing projects, and the general rehabilitation and enhancement of the total resource potential of the reservation. Title to any land acquired under the authority of this Act shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fallon Indian Reservation in Nevada. (b) Nothing in this section or section 4 of this Act shall confer any authority or impose any requirement on the Secretary to exchange, dispose of, or otherwise utilize other lands or interests therein under his administration in connection with any exchange, disposal, or acquisition of Indian trust land or interests therein authorized by this section and section 4 of this Act. Nothing in this section or in section 4 of this Act shall supersede or repeal by implication the requirements of the Act of October 21, 1976 (90 Stat. 2743). Any acquisition or exchange pursuant to this section or section 4 of this Act which involves public lands or interests therein as defined in the Act of October 21, 1976, shall also meet the requirements of said 1976 Act. SEC. 6. Nothing in this Act shall affect rights subject to adjudication in United States against Alpine Land and Reservoir Company, et al.. Equity No. D-183, U.S. Dist. Ct., Nevada, and United States against Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, et al., Civ. No. R-2987, U.S. Dist. Ct., Nevada.

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