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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 725 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To take certain mineral interests into trust for the benefit of the Crow |
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| 6 | 6 | | Tribe of Montana, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY24, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. D |
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| 10 | 10 | | OWNING(for himself and Mr. ZINKE) introduced the following bill; |
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| 11 | 11 | | which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To take certain mineral interests into trust for the benefit |
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| 14 | 14 | | of the Crow Tribe of Montana, and for other purposes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Crow Revenue Act’’. 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | In this Act: 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | (1) B |
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| 22 | 22 | | ULL MOUNTAINS LEASE .—The term ‘‘Bull 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | Mountains Lease’’ means the Bureau of Land Man-8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | agement Lease MTM–97988 dated June 1, 2012. 9 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (2) BULL MOUNTAINS TRACTS .—The term 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | ‘‘Bull Mountains Tracts’’ means the mineral inter-2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ests that— 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (A) are located in Musselshell County, 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | Montana; 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (B) comprise approximately 4,530 acres of 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | subsurface interests owned by the United States 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | located in— 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (i) T. 6 N., R. 26 E., sec. 2; 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (ii) T. 6 N., R. 26 E., sec. 24; 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (iii) T. 6 N., R. 27 E., sec. 4; 11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (iv) T. 6 N., R. 27 E., sec. 8; 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (v) T. 6 N., R. 27 E., sec. 10; 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (vi) T. 6 N., R. 27 E., sec. 14; 14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (vii) T. 6 N., R. 27 E., sec. 22; 15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (viii) T. 7 N., R. 26 E., sec. 24; 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (ix) T. 7 N., R. 26 E., sec. 26; 17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (x) T. 7 N., R. 26 E., sec. 34; 18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (xi) T. 7 N., R. 27 E., sec. 20; and 19 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (xii) T. 7 N., R. 27 E., sec. 22; 20 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (C) comprise approximately 940 acres of 21 |
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| 49 | 49 | | surface interests owned by the United States lo-22 |
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| 50 | 50 | | cated in— 23 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (i) T. 6 N., R. 26 E., sec. 2; 24 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (ii) T. 6 N., R. 27 E., sec. 8; 25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (iii) T. 6 N., R. 27 E., sec. 10; 1 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (iv) T. 6 N., R. 28 E., sec. 8; and 2 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (v) T. 7 N., R. 27 E., sec. 34; and 3 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (D) are generally depicted on the map en-4 |
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| 60 | 60 | | titled ‘‘Bull Mountains Tracts’’ and dated Jan-5 |
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| 61 | 61 | | uary 30, 2024. 6 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (3) H |
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| 63 | 63 | | OPE FAMILY TRACTS .—The term ‘‘Hope 7 |
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| 64 | 64 | | Family Tracts’’ means the aggregate mineral inter-8 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ests that— 9 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (A) are located in Big Horn County, Mon-10 |
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| 67 | 67 | | tana, within the boundaries of the Crow Res-11 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ervation; 12 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (B) comprise approximately 4,660 acres of 13 |
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| 70 | 70 | | subsurface interests owned by the Hope Family 14 |
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| 71 | 71 | | Trust located in— 15 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (i) T. 4 S., R. 37 E., sec. 33; 16 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (ii) T. 4 S., R. 37 E., sec. 34; 17 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (iii) T. 5 S., R. 37 E., sec. 1; 18 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (iv) T. 5 S., R. 37 E., sec. 2; 19 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (v) T. 5 S., R. 37 E., sec. 3; 20 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (vi) T. 5 S., R. 37 E., sec. 10; 21 |
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| 78 | 78 | | (vii) T. 5 S., R. 37 E., sec. 11; 22 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (viii) T. 5 S., R. 37 E., sec. 12; 23 |
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| 80 | 80 | | (ix) T. 5 S., R. 37 E., sec. 13; 24 |
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| 81 | 81 | | (x) T. 5 S., R. 37 E., sec. 14; 25 |
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| 85 | 85 | | (xi) T. 5 S., R. 37 E., sec. 15; 1 |
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| 86 | 86 | | (xii) T. 5 S., R. 38 E., sec. 5; 2 |
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| 87 | 87 | | (xiii) T. 5 S., R. 38 E., sec. 8; 3 |
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| 88 | 88 | | (xiv) T. 5 S., R. 38 E., sec. 9; 4 |
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| 89 | 89 | | (xv) T. 5 S., R. 38 E., sec. 16; and 5 |
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| 90 | 90 | | (xvi) T. 5 S., R. 38 E., sec. 17; and 6 |
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| 91 | 91 | | (C) are generally depicted on the map enti-7 |
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| 92 | 92 | | tled ‘‘Hope Family Tracts’’ and dated January 8 |
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| 93 | 93 | | 30, 2024. 9 |
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| 94 | 94 | | (4) H |
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| 95 | 95 | | OPE FAMILY TRUST .—The term ‘‘Hope 10 |
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| 96 | 96 | | Family Trust’’ means the Joe and Barbara Hope 11 |
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| 97 | 97 | | Mineral Trust. 12 |
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| 98 | 98 | | (5) L |
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| 99 | 99 | | ESSEE.—The term ‘‘Lessee’’ means the 13 |
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| 100 | 100 | | lessee for the Bull Mountains Lease. 14 |
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| 101 | 101 | | (6) S |
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| 102 | 102 | | ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 15 |
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| 103 | 103 | | the Secretary of the Interior. 16 |
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| 104 | 104 | | (7) S |
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| 105 | 105 | | TATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the State 17 |
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| 106 | 106 | | of Montana. 18 |
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| 107 | 107 | | (8) T |
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| 108 | 108 | | RIBE.—The term ‘‘Tribe’’ means the Crow 19 |
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| 109 | 109 | | Tribe of Montana. 20 |
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| 110 | 110 | | SEC. 3. MINERAL RIGHTS TO BE TAKEN INTO TRUST. 21 |
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| 111 | 111 | | (a) C |
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| 112 | 112 | | OMPLETION OFMINERALCONVEYANCES.—Not 22 |
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| 113 | 113 | | later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 23 |
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| 114 | 114 | | in a single transaction— 24 |
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| 118 | 118 | | (1) notwithstanding any other provision of law, 1 |
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| 119 | 119 | | including sections 3480.0–6(d)(8) and 3452.1 2 |
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| 120 | 120 | | through 3452.1–3 of title 43, Code of Federal Regu-3 |
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| 121 | 121 | | lations (or successor regulations), if the Lessee of-4 |
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| 122 | 122 | | fers to relinquish the Bull Mountains Lease, the 5 |
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| 123 | 123 | | Secretary shall accept the relinquishment; 6 |
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| 124 | 124 | | (2) the Hope Family Trust shall convey to the 7 |
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| 125 | 125 | | Tribe all right, title, and interest in and to the min-8 |
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| 126 | 126 | | eral interests in the Hope Family Tracts; and 9 |
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| 127 | 127 | | (3) subject to valid existing rights, and on relin-10 |
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| 128 | 128 | | quishment of the Bull Mountains Lease, the Sec-11 |
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| 129 | 129 | | retary shall convey to the Hope Family Trust all 12 |
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| 130 | 130 | | right, title, and interest of the United States in and 13 |
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| 131 | 131 | | to the mineral interests and surface land in the Bull 14 |
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| 132 | 132 | | Mountains Tracts. 15 |
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| 133 | 133 | | (b) T |
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| 134 | 134 | | RUSTSTATUS.—On the request of the Tribe, 16 |
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| 135 | 135 | | the mineral interests conveyed to the Tribe under sub-17 |
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| 136 | 136 | | section (a)(2) shall be held in trust by the United States 18 |
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| 137 | 137 | | for the benefit of the Tribe. 19 |
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| 138 | 138 | | (c) N |
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| 139 | 139 | | OSTATETAXATION.—The mineral interests 20 |
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| 140 | 140 | | conveyed to the Tribe under subsection (a)(2) shall not 21 |
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| 141 | 141 | | be subject to taxation by the State (including any political 22 |
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| 142 | 142 | | subdivision of the State). 23 |
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| 143 | 143 | | (d) R |
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| 144 | 144 | | EVENUESHARINGAGREEMENT.—Before the 24 |
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| 145 | 145 | | conveyances under subsection (a), the Tribe shall notify 25 |
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| 149 | 149 | | the Secretary, in writing, that the Tribe and the Hope 1 |
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| 150 | 150 | | Family Trust have agreed on a formula for sharing rev-2 |
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| 151 | 151 | | enue from development of the mineral and surface inter-3 |
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| 152 | 152 | | ests described in subsection (a)(3) if those mineral or sur-4 |
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| 153 | 153 | | face interests are developed at a later date. 5 |
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| 154 | 154 | | (e) W |
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| 155 | 155 | | ITHDRAWALPRIOR TOEXCHANGE.—Subject to 6 |
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| 156 | 156 | | valid existing rights, pending the conveyances under para-7 |
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| 157 | 157 | | graphs (2) and (3) of subsection (a), the tracts conveyed 8 |
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| 158 | 158 | | under those paragraphs shall be withdrawn from— 9 |
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| 159 | 159 | | (1) all forms of entry, appropriation, and dis-10 |
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| 160 | 160 | | posal under the public land laws; 11 |
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| 161 | 161 | | (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining 12 |
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| 162 | 162 | | laws; and 13 |
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| 163 | 163 | | (3) operation of the mineral leasing, mineral 14 |
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| 164 | 164 | | materials, and geothermal leasing laws. 15 |
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| 165 | 165 | | SEC. 4. ELIGIBILITY FOR OTHER FEDERAL BENEFITS. 16 |
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| 166 | 166 | | No amounts or other benefits provided to the Tribe 17 |
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| 167 | 167 | | under this Act shall result in the reduction or denial of 18 |
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| 168 | 168 | | any Federal services, benefits, or programs to the Tribe 19 |
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| 169 | 169 | | or any member of the Tribe to which the Tribe or member 20 |
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| 170 | 170 | | of the Tribe is entitled or eligible because of— 21 |
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| 171 | 171 | | (1) the status of the Tribe as a federally recog-22 |
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| 172 | 172 | | nized Indian Tribe; or 23 |
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| 176 | 176 | | (2) the status of the member as a member of 1 |
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| 177 | 177 | | the Tribe. 2 |
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