3.0.0 2256 2023-01-11T13:26:33Z 2023-01-11T13:26:33Z Senate S S 2014-04-11 113 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2014-04-11T20:18:29Z Northern Cheyenne Lands Act 113 4350 HR 2014-09-15 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 444. Related bill CRS Northern Cheyenne Lands Act 113 2442 S 2014-12-12 By Senator Tester from Committee on Indian Affairs filed written report. Report No. 113-317. Related bill CRS 2014-04-11 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2014-04-11 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000818 Sen. Walsh, John E. [D-MT] John Walsh D MT E. N T000464 Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] Jon Tester D MT 2014-04-11 True Native Americans Coal Energy revenues and royalties Federal-Indian relations Government trust funds Indian claims Indian lands and resources rights Land transfers Metals Mining Montana Native Americans 00 2014-04-11 Introduced in Senate 2014-06-17T18:29:20Z Northern Cheyenne Lands Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to take approximately 1,567 acres of land in Montana depicted on the map entitled "Northern Cheyenne Lands Act - Fee-to-Trust Lands" and dated March 26, 2014, into trust for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe.

Requires: (1) Great Northern Properties to convey to the Tribe its coal and iron ore mineral interests underlying the land on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation generally depicted on the map entitled "Northern Cheyenne Land Act - Coal Tracts" and dated February 27, 2014, and (2) the Secretary to convey to Great Northern Properties all of U.S. coal mineral interests underlying the land generally depicted as "Bull Mountains" and "East Fork" on the map entitled "Northern Cheyenne Federal Tracts" and dated February 27, 2014.

Conditions those conveyances on the Secretary receiving a notice from the Tribe that: (1) it has a revenue sharing agreement with Great Northern Properties regarding future development of the Northern Cheyenne Federal Tracts, and (2) Great Northern Properties has agreed to convey those coal and iron ore mineral interests to the Tribe.

Directs the Secretary to ensure that the deed for those federal coal mineral interests includes a covenant, running with the land, that precludes surface mining of the coal: (1) absent the written consent of the surface owner, and (2) except as determined to be acceptable for further consideration for leasing in a specified Bureau of Land Management (BLM) document.

Requires the coal and iron ore mineral interests conveyed to the Tribe under this Act to be held, upon the Tribe's request, in trust for the Tribe.

Prohibits Montana from taxing the mineral interests this Act conveys to the Tribe.

Requires that, in return for this Act's mineral conveyances:

  • the Tribe must waive all of its claims relating to the failure of the United States to acquire those private coal and iron ore mineral interests in trust for the Tribe as part of its Reservation as directed by Congress in 1900, and
  • Great Northern Properties must waive any claim against the United States relating to the value of the coal mineral interests it receives under this Act.

Requires the Northern Cheyenne Trust Fund (Fund) to be transferred to the Tribe and deposited into the Tribe's Permanent Fund. Requires the Tribe, in return for such transfer, to waive all of its claims arising from U.S. management of the Fund.

]]> Northern Cheyenne Lands Act Display Title Northern Cheyenne Lands Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to take certain land and mineral rights on the reservation of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana and other culturally important land into trust for the benefit of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Northern Cheyenne Lands Act Introduced in Senate 2014-04-11T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s2256is/xml/BILLS-113s2256is.xml 2014-04-11 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.