[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1053 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1053

To clarify authority granted under the Act entitled ``An Act to define 
the exterior boundary of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the 
                State of Utah, and for other purposes''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 11, 2011

   Mr. Matheson (for himself and Mr. Bishop of Utah) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To clarify authority granted under the Act entitled ``An Act to define 
the exterior boundary of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the 
                State of Utah, and for other purposes''.

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

SECTION 1. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY.

    The Act entitled ``An Act to define the exterior boundary of the 
Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the State of Utah, and for other 
purposes'', approved March 11, 1948 (62 Stat. 72), as amended by the 
Act entitled ``An Act to amend the Act extending the exterior boundary 
of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the State of Utah so as 
to authorize such State to exchange certain mineral lands for other 
lands mineral in character'' approved August 9, 1955, (69 Stat. 544), 
is further amended adding at the end the following:
    ``Sec. 5.  In order to further clarify authorizations under this 
Act, the State of Utah is hereby authorized to relinquish for the 
benefit of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation 
school or other State-owned subsurface mineral lands located beneath 
the surface estate delineated in Public Law 440 (approved March 11, 
1948) and south of the border between Grand County, Utah, and Uintah 
County, Utah, and select in lieu of such relinquished lands, on an 
acre-for-acre basis, any subsurface mineral lands of the United States 
located beneath the surface estate delineated in Public Law 440 
(approved March 11, 1948) and north of the border between Grand County, 
Utah, and Uintah County, Utah.''.
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