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63 STAT.] 81ST CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 425, 426-AUG. 13 , 15, 1949 groups of Indians occupying and using same as a part of their respec- tive existing reservations, subject to valid existing rights. The remainder of the aforesaid land is hereby declared to be a part of the public domain of the United States and shall be transferred by the Secretary of the Interior to the Bureau of Land Management for administration under the provisions of the Act of Congress of June 28, 1934, generally known as Taylor Grazing Act (48 Stat. 1269, as amended). The boundaries and descriptions of the areas to become Indian lands and those which are to be transferred to the Bureau of Land Management are set out in sections III and IV, respectively, of the memorandum of information which is attached to and a part of the report of the Secretary of the Interior to the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs on S. 1323, Eighty-first Congress, first session, and such boundaries and descriptions are hereby adopted as part of this Act and shall be published in the Federal Register: Pro- vided, That before said boundaries and descriptions are published in the Federal Register as herein provided, the Secretary of the Interior may correct any clerical errors in section III of said memorandum of information, and shall revise the same so as to define the areas on that portion of the lands conveyed by this Act and known as Bell Rock Mesa used and occupied respectively by the Laguna Pueblo Indians and the Canoncito Navajo Indians. SEC. 2. For the purpose of consolidation of Indian lands the Sec- retary of the Interior is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to exchange any lands or interests therein, includ- ing improvements and water rights with the consent of the Pueblo or Navajo tribal authorities for other lands, water rights, and improve- ments of similar value in the area set apart for the Pueblos and Canoncito Navajos or in the areas hereby declared to be public domain or within any public domain within New Mexico. Title to all lands acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the respective Pueblo Indians and the Navajo Canoncito group. SEC. 3. The funds now on deposit in the United Pueblos Agency in "special deposits" which have accrued from issuance of livestock- crossing permits and fees collected for grazing permits on the lands which have been under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior shall be expended or disbursed for the benefit of the Indians under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Approved August 13, 1949. [CHAPTER 426] AN ACT To fix the United States share of project costs, under the Federal Airport Act, involved in installation of high intensity lighting on CAA designated instrument landing runways. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 10 of the Federal Airport Act is amended by adding the following new subsection: "(e) To the extent that the project costs of an approved project represent the cost of installation of high intensity lighting on run- ways designated instrument landing runways by the Administrator, the United States share shall be not to exceed 75 per centum of the allowable costs of such installation." SEC. 2 . Subsection (a) of section 10 of such Act is amended by striking out "and (d)" and inserting "(d), and (e)". Approved August 15, 1949. 605 43U.S.C.§315et seq.; Supp. II, § 315b et seq. Exchange of lands. Title to lands. Special deposit funds. August 15, 1949 [8. 1278] [Public Law 227] Federal Airport Act, amendment. 60 Stat. 175. 49 U.S. C. 1109. 60 Stat. 175. 49U.S.C. 1109 (a).