HR 3814 · 96th Congress · Native Americans

Navajo and Hopi Relocation Amendments Act

Introduced 1979-04-30· Sponsored by Rep. Udall, Morris K. [D-AZ-2]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
2
Committee
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House Vote
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Senate
5
Enacted
Latest: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.(1979-04-30)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Navajo and Hopi Relocation Amendments Act - Requires that certain benefits be provided to Navajo and Hopi Indians to facilitate the resettlement of individuals. Directs the Navajo and Hopi Relocation Commission to administer such benefits, including: (1) public works grants to communities for additional municipal improvements; (2) planning assistance to tribes and communities in which relocatees have had an impact; (3) grants for education and law enforcement; (4) loans for housing, industrial development, and small businesses; (5) a high school for Hopi students; and (6) planning money for a comprehensive Hopi Medical Center. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to purchase up to an additional 25,000 acres of land, contiguous to the Navajo Reservation, if possible, for assignment by the Commission as residential lands for relocatees, in lots of up to five acres per family. Authorizes the Commission to establish communities thereon to be eligible for certain benefits under this Act. Requires that: (1) all federally-instituted projects relating to fencing, conservation, range restoration, or reclamation on partitioned lands be eligible for contracting by either tribe under the Indi…

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