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[76 Stat. 705]
PUBLIC LAW 87-000—MMMM. DD, 1962
[76 Stat. 705]

76 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 87-735-OCT. 3, 1962

705

amounts allocated for payment of property owned by individual Indians shall be credited to their respective individual Indian money accounts. No part of the compensation provided for in section 1 shall be subject to any lien, debt, or claim of any nature whatsoever against the tribe or the individual Indian owners entitled to the compensation, except delinquent debts owed to the United States by the tribe, or delinquent debts owed to the tribe or to the United States by the individual Indians entitled to the compensation: Provided, That such compensation shall not be applied to the payment of such delinquent debts unless the Secretary of the Interior first determines and certifies that no hardship will result from the payment of such delinquent debts. (c) The tribal council with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior shall make available from the funds authorized by section 1(a)(2) of this Act not to exceed $77,650, to pay the expenses, costs, losses, and damages incurred by members of the tribe as a direct result of moving themselves and their possessions, including dwellings and other buildings owned by the individual members, on account of the acquisition referred to in section 1 of this Act. The balance of the amount paid pursuant to section 1(a)(2) shall be consolidated with the appropriation authorized by section 3 of this Act and shall be expended in accordance with the provisions of section 3, SEC. 3. There is authorized to be appropriated the additional sum Economic and of $3,802,500 which shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United s°<=iai conditions. States to the credit of the tribe and which shall draw interest on the "P'"°*™^"*principal at the" rate of 4 per centum per annum until expended, for the purposes of developing individual and family plans, relocating, reestablishing, and providing other assistance designed to improve the economic and social conditions of enrolled members of the tribe on the date of enactment of this Act. The funds authorized by this section shall be expended in accordance with plans and programs approved by both the tribal council and the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That $400,000 shall be allocated exclusively for industrial development on the reservation or within fifty miles of any exterior boundary of the reservation with preferential right of employment for members of the tribe. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent cooperative action with the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe on industrial development or other programs: And frovided further, That no part of such funds shall be used for per capita payments, or for the purchase of land by the tribe except for the purpose of resale to individual Indians in furtherance of the rehabilitation program authorized by this section, which resale is hereby authorized. SEC. 4. The Secretary of the Army, out of funds appropriated for Indian cemethe Big Bend project other than funds provided by this Act, is au- ^a'/j^n' ^^^ '*^°' thorized and directed to relocate and reestablish such Indian cemeteries, tribal monuments, and shrines within the taking area of the Big Bend project as the tribal council, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, shall select and designate: Provided, That reinterment of individual remains, but not entire cemeteries, outside the reservation boundaries is authorized if desired by the next of kin and approved by the tribal council, but in no event will reinterment be made to a site which exceeds the equivalent distance from the disinterment site to the farthest point at which reinterment could be made within the reservation boundaries. SEC. 5. The Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed out Government and of funds appropriated for the Big Bend project other than funds agency facilities. provided by this Act to protect, replace, relocate^ or reconstruct any existing essential governmental and agency facilities on the reservation, including schools, hospitals, Public Health Service and Bureau 78135 0-63—48