[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1122 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1122

To require the Secretary of the Interior to plan, design, and construct 
  a new school at Third Mesa, Arizona, on the Hopi Indian Reservation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 23, 2009

 Mr. Franks of Arizona (for himself, Mrs. Kirkpatrick of Arizona, Ms. 
   Giffords, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Pastor of Arizona, and Mr. Mitchell) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of the Interior to plan, design, and construct 
  a new school at Third Mesa, Arizona, on the Hopi Indian Reservation.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Hopi School Replacement Act of 
2009''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds as follows:
            (1) The Hopi Tribe is located approximately 90 miles 
        northeast of the City of Flagstaff in Northern Arizona. The 
        Hopi Tribe is the only non-gaming Indian tribe in Arizona and, 
        therefore, has no other financial resources with which to 
        improve the conditions of its schools.
            (2) The current school facilities have numerous structural 
        deficiencies that create at-risk conditions for occupants and 
        neither provides an appropriate environment as compared to off-
        reservation facilities.
            (3) Both school facilities are over 125 years old and have 
        been described by two different Bureau of Indian Affairs 
        inspections as having exceeded their usefulness and functional 
        life.

SEC. 3. THIRD MESA, ARIZONA, NEW SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION.

    Not later than 3 years after funds are made available for this 
section, the Secretary of the Interior, in coordination with the Hopi 
Tribe, shall plan, design, and construct a new school at Third Mesa, 
Arizona, on the Hopi Indian Reservation, to replace the Hopi Day School 
and the Hotevilla Bacavi Community School.
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