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PUBLIC LAW 717-JULY 14, 1956
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SEC. 3. The term "direction and control of the Secretary of Agriculture" as used herein means such administrative supervision by the Secretary of Agriculture as is reasonably necessary to prevent serious injury to the surface resources of the land described in section 6, or the adjoining lands of the Uintah National Forest, but shall not be construed to prohibit the use of the surface, under accepted engineering or mining standards, for installation of mining equipment or machinery, building and maintaining roadways, free ingress and egress for mining and removal of subsurface resources to market, and the mining and removal of subsurface resources, including the sinking of shafts, driving tunnels or other standard mining methods, except that strip or hydraulic mining shall be permitted only if, and under conditions, approved by the Secretary of Agriculture. SEC. 4. The benefits herein granted to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, in Utah, shall be in partial settlement of the claims of the Uintah and White River Bands of Ute Indians pending before the Court of Claims in docket numbered 47568, and upon acceptance, as provided in section 5, shall have the effect of releasing the United States from any claimed liability for the payment of such damages as might be based upon the mineral and oil and gas resources or value thereof attributable to the lands which are the subject matter of that said action. Any jurisdiction of the Court of Claims to make an award of damages including or based upon mineral and oil and gas values in docket numbered 47568 shall be withdrawn upon this Act's taking effect as provided in section 5, and jurisdiction of the Court of Claims in docket numbered 47568 shall thereafter be continued only as to a claim for just compensation based upon the value of the surface rights of the lands which are the subject of that action: Provided, That the standard of liability and measure of damages in such action shall in all other respects be determined by the provisions of the Ute Jurisdictional Act of June 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 1209), as amended by the Acts of July 15, 1941 (55 Stat. 593), June 22, 1943 (57 Stat. 160), June 11, 1946 (60 Stat. 255), and sections 1, 2, 11, and 25 of the Act of August 13, 1946 (60 Stat. 1049), except that 70jf 7"o^no?e.' '°^' any money heretofore received by the United States, for or on account of the patenting or other disposition, without reservation of mineral rights, of any of the land covered by the claim, and paid over to or expended for the benefit of the Uintah and White River Bands shall be deemed to be in lieu of compensation for the subsurface values thus disposed of and shall not be allowed as a payment on the claim or an offset against any recovery which may be awarded as compensation for the surface rights. SEC. 5. This Act shall not become effective unless and until (1) the Effecuvity. Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, in Utah, accepts its provisions, in such manner as may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, within one year after the approval hereof; (2) the Uintah and White River Bands present to the Secretary of the Interior a release, satisfactory to him, of any claims they might have because the Uncompahgre IJtes are permitted to share in the benefits of this Act; and (3) an amendment to the petition in docket numbered 47568 is filed with the Court of Claims limiting the prayer for relief as to the claim presently stated therein to just compensation based upon the value of surface rights only, in accordance with section 4 hereof. Such amendment when filed shall relate back to the date of filing of the original petition in docket numbered 47568. Upon the approval of this Act, and pending acceptance or rejection of its provisions by the Indians as provided herein, the land described in section 6 shall be withdrawn from lease, location, entry or any form of disposition under the public land laws except disposition pursuant to valid leases, locations, or other claims that are outstanding as of
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