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                                                 Union Calendar No. 446

103d CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 1784

                          [Report No. 103-800]

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                                 AN ACT

 To restore the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of 
   Alaska to the Department of the Interior list of Indian entities 
  recognized and eligible to receive Services from the United States 
                       Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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                            October 3, 1994

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed





                                                 Union Calendar No. 446
103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1784

                          [Report No. 103-800]


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 1994

             Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

                            October 3, 1994

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To restore the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of 
   Alaska to the Department of the Interior list of Indian entities 
  recognized and eligible to receive Services from the United States 
                       Bureau of Indian Affairs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Tlingit and Haida Status 
Clarification Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds and declares that--
            (1) the United States has acknowledged the Central Council 
        of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska pursuant to the 
        Act of June 19, 1935 (49 Stat. 388, as amended, commonly 
        referred to as the ``Jurisdiction Act''), as a federally 
        recognized Indian tribe;
            (2) on October 21, 1993, the Secretary of the Interior 
        published a list of federally recognized Indian tribes pursuant 
        to part 83 of title 25 of the Code of Federal Regulations which 
        omitted the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes 
        of Alaska;
            (3) the Secretary does not have the authority to terminate 
        the federally recognized status of an Indian tribe as 
        determined by Congress;
            (4) the Secretary may not administratively diminish the 
        privileges and immunities of federally recognized Indian tribes 
        without the consent of Congress; and
            (5) the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes 
        of Alaska continues to be a federally recognized Indian tribe.

SEC. 3. REAFFIRMATION OF TRIBAL STATUS.

    The Congress reaffirms and acknowledges that the Central Council of 
Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska is a federally recognized 
Indian tribe.

SEC. 4. DISCLAIMER.

    (a) In General.--Nothing in this Act shall be interpreted to 
diminish or interfere with the government-to-government relationship 
between the United States and other federally recognized Alaska Native 
tribes, nor to vest any power, authority, or jurisdiction in the 
Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska over other 
federally recognized Alaska Native tribes.
    (b) Constitution of Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian 
Tribes of Alaska.--Nothing in this Act shall be construed as codifying 
the Constitution of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian 
Tribes of Alaska into Federal law.

SEC. 5. PROHIBITION AGAINST DUPLICATIVE SERVICES.

    Other federally recognized tribes in Southeast Alaska shall have 
precedence over the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes 
of Alaska in the award of a Federal compact, contract or grant to the 
extent that their service population overlaps with that of the Central 
Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian tribes of Alaska. In no event shall 
dually enrolled members result in duplication of Federal service 
funding.

            Passed the Senate November 24 (legislative day, November 
      23), 1993.

            Attest:

                                             WALTER J. STEWART,

                                                             Secretary.