S 1077 · 96th Congress · Native Americans
Navajo and Hopi Relocation Amendments Act
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EnactedLatest: Referred to Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs.(1979-05-07)
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Navajo and Hopi Relocation Amendments Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation Commission, to provide (in order to facilitate the resettlement of certain members of the Navajo and Hopi tribes): (1) public works grants to communities for additional municipal improvements; and (2) planning assistance to tribes and communities in which relocatees have had an impact. Directs the Secretary 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 Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act; and (2) projects not so constructed provide employment preference for members of the tribes. Directs the Commission, if the tribes negotiate and agree on an exchange of r…
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