A bill to authorize the partition of the surface rights in the joint use area of the 1882 Executive order Hopi Reservation and the surface and subsurface rights in the 1934 Navajo Reservation between the Hopi and Navajo Tribes, to provide for allotments to certain Paiute Indians, and for other purposes.
Requires the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to appoint a Mediator to assist in the negotiations for the settlement and partition of the relative rights and interests of the Hopi and Navajo Tribes, in the supplemental proceedings in the case of Healing v. Jones pending in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Prescribes the procedure for the negotiations.
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to allot lands to Paiute Indians, not now members of the Navajo Tribe, who are located in the affected area, such land to be held in trust for them and their heirs by the United States.
Authorizes the Secretary to transfer up to 250,000 acres of lands within the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management within Arizona or New Mexico to the Navajo Tribe, in return for the fair market value of such land as determined by the Secretary.
Establishes within the executive branch the Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation Commission. Requires the Commission, following an order of the District Court in the supplemental proceedings of the Healing case, to prepare and submit to Congress a report concerning the relocation of Members and households of each tribe from lands partitioned to the other tribe. Specifies the procedure for such relocations as may be necessary.
Grants to the Hopi Tribe perpetual use of Cliff Spring in Arizona as a religious shrine, and provides that the Secretary shall make reasonable provision for the use and right of access to identified religious shrines for the members of each tribe on the reservation of the other tribe.
Authorizes funds to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out specified provisions of this Act, such funds to remain available until expended.
Referred to Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Reported to House from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs with amendment, H. Rept. 93-909.
Reported to House from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs with amendment, H. Rept. 93-909.
Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: Measure failed of passage in House, roll call #92 (133-199).
Roll Call #92 (House)Measure failed of passage in House, roll call #92 (133-199).
Roll Call #92 (House)Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, amended, roll call #253 (290-38).
Roll Call #253 (House)Measure passed House, amended, roll call #253 (290-38).
Roll Call #253 (House)Referred to Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Reported to Senate from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs with amendment, S. Rept. 93-1177.
Enacted as Public Law 93-531
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Reported to Senate from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs with amendment, S. Rept. 93-1177.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Measure passed Senate, amended, roll call #510 (72-0).
Roll Call #510 (Senate)Measure passed Senate, amended, roll call #510 (72-0).
Roll Call #510 (Senate)Resolving differences -- House actions: House agreed to Senate amendments.
House agreed to Senate amendments.
Measure presented to President.
Measure presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Public law 93-531.
Public law 93-531.