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<meta><dc:title>Public Law 117–261: To repeal the Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Act.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2022-12-21</dc:date>
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<preface><centerRunningHead>PUBLIC LAW 117–261—DEC. 21, 2022</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/136/2393">136 STAT. 2393</page>
<dc:type>Public Law</dc:type><docNumber>117–261</docNumber>
<congress value="117">117th Congress</congress>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize12" style="-uslm-lc:I658005">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I658011">To repeal the Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Act.<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8" id="xa2baad1c-e817-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658076"><approvedDate date="2022-12-21">Dec. 21, 2022</approvedDate></p><p class="centered fontsize8" id="xa2baad1d-e817-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658076">[<ref href="/us/bill/117/s/314">S. 314</ref>]<?GPOvSpace 08?></p></sidenote></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xa2baad1e-e817-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Repeal Act.</p></sidenote>
<section id="d114711e88" identifier="/us/pl/117/261/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I658146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xa2baad1f-e817-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658180"><ref href="/us/usc/t25/s565">25 USC 565 note</ref>.</p></sidenote><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Repeal Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d114711e103" identifier="/us/pl/117/261/s2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I658141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>REPEAL.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  <ref href="/us/pl/89/224">Public Law 89–224</ref> (commonly known as the “Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Act”) (<ref href="/us/stat/79/897">79 Stat. 897</ref>)<sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xa2baad20-e817-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658180"><ref href="/us/usc/t25/s565">25 USC 565</ref>,</p><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xa2baad21-e817-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">565a–565g.</p></sidenote> is <amendingAction type="repeal">repealed</amendingAction>.</content></section>
<section id="d114711e127" identifier="/us/pl/117/261/s3" style="-uslm-lc:I658141"><num class="fontsize12" value="3">SEC. 3. </num><heading>DISBURSEMENT OF REMAINING FUNDS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Notwithstanding any provision of <ref href="/us/pl/89/224">Public Law 89–224</ref> (<ref href="/us/stat/79/897">79 Stat. 897</ref>) (as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act) relating to the distribution or use of funds, as soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall disburse to the Klamath Tribe the balance of any funds that, on or before the date of enactment of this Act, were appropriated or deposited into the trust accounts for remaining legal fees and administration and per capita trust accounts, as identified by the Secretary of the Interior, under that Act (as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act).</content></section>
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<actionDescription style="-uslm-lc:I658030">Approved</actionDescription> <date date="2022-12-21">December 21, 2022</date>.</action>
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658031"><inline class="underline">LEGISLATIVE HISTORY</inline>—<ref href="/us/bill/117/s/314">S. 314</ref>:</heading>
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<headingText style="-uslm-lc:I658032">HOUSE REPORTS:</headingText> ┐No. <ref href="/us/hrpt/117/617">117–617</ref> (<committee>Comm. on Natural Resources</committee>).
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<headingText style="-uslm-lc:I658032">SENATE REPORTS:</headingText> ┐No. <ref href="/us/srpt/117/11">117–11</ref> (<committee>Comm. on Indian Affairs</committee>).
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658032">CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:</heading>
<subheading style="-uslm-lc:I658033">Vol. 167 (2021):</subheading>
<p class="indentUp2 firstIndent-1" id="xa2bad432-e817-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658034">May 26, considered and passed Senate.</p><subheading style="-uslm-lc:I658033">Vol. 168 (2022):</subheading>
<p class="indentUp2 firstIndent-1" id="xa2bad433-e817-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658034">Dec. 12, considered and passed House.</p></note>
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