[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1209 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1209

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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 15, 2011

  Mr. Hatch (for himself and Mr. Lee) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           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; 69 Stat. 544), is 
amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 5. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY.

    ``(a) In General.--The State of Utah is authorized to relinquish 
for the benefit of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray 
Reservation any school or other State-owned subsurface mineral land 
that is located--
            ``(1) beneath the surface estate described in this Act; and
            ``(2) south of the border between Grand County, Utah, and 
        Uintah County, Utah.
    ``(b) Exchange.--In exchange for any land relinquished under 
subsection (a), the United States shall transfer to the State of Utah, 
on an acre-for-acre basis, any subsurface mineral land of the United 
States that the State of Utah requests that is located--
            ``(1) beneath the surface estate described in this Act; and
            ``(2) north of the border between Grand County, Utah, and 
        Uintah County, Utah.''.
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