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    25 USC Sec. 1300i                                           01/06/03

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    TITLE 25 - INDIANS


    CHAPTER 14 - MISCELLANEOUS


    SUBCHAPTER LXXX - HOOPA-YUROK SETTLEMENT

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    Sec. 1300i. Short title and definitions

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    (a) Short title


      This subchapter may be cited as the "Hoopa-Yurok Settlement Act".


    (b) Definitions


      For the purposes of this subchapter, the term - 


        (1) "Escrow funds" means the moneys derived from the joint


      reservation which are held in trust by the Secretary in the


      accounts entitled - 


          (A) "Proceeds of Labor-Hoopa Valley Indians-California 70


        percent Fund, account number J52-561-7197";


          (B) "Proceeds of Labor-Hoopa Valley Indians-California 30


        percent Fund, account number J52-561-7236";


          (C) "Proceeds of Klamath River Reservation, California,


        account number J52-562-7056";


          (D) "Proceeds of Labor-Yurok Indians of Lower Klamath River,


        California, account number J52-562-7153";


          (E) "Proceeds of Labor-Yurok Indians of Upper Klamath River,


        California, account number J52-562-7154";


          (F) "Proceeds of Labor-Hoopa Reservation for Hoopa Valley and


        Yurok Tribes, account number J52-575-7256"; and


          (G) "Klamath River Fisheries, account number 5628000001";

        (2) "Hoopa Indian blood" means that degree of ancestry derived


      from an Indian of the Hunstang, Hupa, Miskut, Redwood, Saiaz,


      Sermalton, Tish-Tang-Atan, South Fork, or Grouse Creek Bands of


      Indians;


        (3) "Hoopa Valley Reservation" means the reservation described


      in section 1300i-1(b) of this title;


        (4) "Hoopa Valley Tribe" means the Hoopa Valley Tribe,


      organized under the constitution and amendments approved by the


      Secretary on November 20, 1933, September 4, 1952, August 9,


      1963, and August 18, 1972;


        (5) "Indian of the Reservation" shall mean any person who meets


      the criteria to qualify as an Indian of the Reservation as


      established by the United States Court of Claims in its March 31,


      1982, May 17, 1987, and March 1, 1988, decisions in the case of


      Jesse Short et al. v. United States, (Cl. Ct. No. 102-63);


        (6) "Joint reservation" means the area of land defined as the


      Hoopa Valley Reservation in section 1300i-1(b) of this title and


      the Yurok Reservation in section 1300i-1(c) of this title.(!1)

        (7) "Karuk Tribe" means the Karuk Tribe of California,


      organized under its constitution on April 6, 1985;


        (8) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior;


        (9) "Settlement Fund" means the Hoopa-Yurok Settlement Fund


      established pursuant to section 1300i-3 of this title;


        (10) "Settlement Roll" means the final roll prepared and


      published in the Federal Register by the Secretary pursuant to


      section 1300i-4 of this title;


        (11) "Short cases" means the cases entitled Jesse Short et al.


      v. United States, (Cl. Ct. No. 102-63); Charlene Ackley v. United


      States, (Cl. Ct. No. 460-78); Bret Aanstadt v. United States,


      (Cl. Ct. No. 146-85L); and Norman Giffen v. United States, (Cl.


      Ct. No. 746-85L);


        (12) "Short plaintiffs" means named plaintiffs in the Short


      cases;


        (13) "trust land" means an interest in land the title to which


      is held in trust by the United States for an Indian or Indian


      tribe, or by an Indian or Indian tribe subject to a restriction


      by the United States against alienation;


        (14) "unallotted trust land, property, resources or rights"


      means those lands, property, resources, or rights reserved for


      Indian purposes which have not been allotted to individuals under


      an allotment Act;


        (15) "Yurok Reservation" means the reservation described in


      section 1300i-1(c) of this title; and


        (16) "Yurok Tribe" means the Indian tribe which is recognized


      and authorized to be organized pursuant to section 1300i-8 of


      this title.

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    (Pub. L. 100-580, Sec. 1, Oct. 31, 1988, 102 Stat. 2924.)

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                            REFERENCES IN TEXT                        


      This subchapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), was in the


    original "this Act", meaning Pub. L. 100-580, Oct. 31, 1988, 102


    Stat. 2924, which enacted this subchapter, amended section 407 of


    this title and section 460ss-3 of Title 16, Conservation, and


    enacted provisions set out as a note under section 460ss-3 of Title


    16. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see


    Tables.

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    (!1) So in original. The period probably should be a semicolon.