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PUBLIC LAW 87-483-JUNE 13, 1962
[76 STAT.
Public Law 87-483 June 13, 1962 [S. 107]
Navajo Indian irrigation p r o j e c t; San Juan-Chama project.
AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Navajo Indian irrigation project and the initial stage of the San JuanChama project as participating projects of the Colorado River storage pi*oject, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and IIou,ie of ReiyreHentatioe^ of the United States of America in Congress assemhhd, That, for the purposes of furnishing water for the irrigation of irrigable and arable lands and for municipal, domestic, and industrial uses, providing recreation and fish and wildlife benefits, and controlling silt, and for other beneficial purposes, the Congress approves as participating projects of the Colorado Eiver storage project (Act of April 11, 1956, TO Stat. 105, as amended, 43 U.S.C. 620-620o) the Navajo Indian irrigation project. New Mexico, and the initial stage of the San JuanChama project, Colorado-New Mexico. The Navajo Indian irrigation project and the initial stage of the San Juan-Chama project herein approved are.substantially those described in the proposed coordinated report of the Acting Commissioner of Reclamation and the Commissioner of Indian Atfairs, approved and adopted by the Secretary of the Interior on October 16, 1957, as conditioned, modified, and limited herein. NAVAJO INDIAN IRRIGA'nON PROJECT
43 U S C 620620O.
43 USC 620c.
Public a t i on in F. R.
41 Stat. 437.
SEC. 2. Pursuant to the provisions of the Act of April 11, 1956, as amended, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the Navajo Indian irrigation project for the principal purpose of furnishing irrigation water to approximately one hundred and ten thousand six hundred and thirty acres of land, said project to have an average annual diversion of five hundred and eight thousand acre-feet of water and the repayment of the costs of construction thereof to be in accordance with the provisions of said Act of April 11, 1956, as amended, including, but not limited to, section 4(d) thereof. SEC. 3. (a) In order to provide for the most economical development of the Navajo Indian irrigation project, the Secretary shall declare by publication in the Federal Register that the United States of America holds in trust for the Navajo Tribe of Indians any legal subdivisions or unsurveyed tracts of federally owned land outside the present boundary of the Navajo Indian Reservation in New ]S|exico in townships 28 and 29 north, ranges 10 and 11 west, and townships 27 and 28 north, ranges 12 and 13 west. New Mexico principal meridian, susceptible to irrigation as part of the project or necessary for location of any of the works or canals of such project: Provided, however, That no such legal subdivision or unsurveyed tract shall be so declared to be held in trust by the United States for the Navajo Tribe until the Navajo Tribe shall have paid the United States the full appraised value thereof: And provided further, That in making appraisals of such lands the Secretary shall consider their values as of the date of approval of this Act, excluding therefrom the value of minerals subject to leasing under the Act of February 25, 1920, as amended (30 U.S.C. 181-286), and such leasable minerals shall not be held in tnist for the Navajo Tribe but shall continue to be subject to leasing under the Act of February 25, 1920, as amended, after the lands containing them have been declared to be held in trust by the United States for the Navajo Tribe. (b) The Navajo Tribe is authorized to convey to the United States, and the Secretary shall accept on behalf of the United States, title to
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