Authorizes the Navajo Tribe, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to exchange the surface interests in certain lands in New Mexico for the surface interests in other lands in New Mexico held by the Bureau of Land Management. Provides that such land be held in trust by the United States for the Tribe and that specified rights of third parties be preserved.
Authorizes the Secretary, after consultation with the governing body of the Tribe, to create easements or rights-of-way across such exchanged lands in order to provide necessary access to adjacent Federal lands.
Prohibits such exchange if the value of the lands to be acquired by the United States is more than 125 percent of the value of the lands to be acquired by the Tribe.
Provides for the equalization of value of the lands exchanged by monetary payments by the Secretary to the Tribe or by the Tribe to the United States.
Authorizes appropriations, as necessary, during FY 1983 for such payments by the Secretary to the Tribe.
Became Public Law No: 97-287.
Introduced in Senate
Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Indian Affairs - SLIN.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported to Senate by Senator Cohen with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 97-374.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported to Senate by Senator Cohen with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 97-374.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Regular Orders. Calendar No. 534.
Considered by Senate.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Voice Vote.
Passed Senate with amendments by Voice Vote.
Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
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