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Department of the Interior





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Bureau of Indian Affairs



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Plan for the Use of the Walker River Paiute Tribe Indian Judgment 
Funds; Notice
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs

 
Plan for the Use of the Walker River Paiute Tribe Indian Judgment 
Funds in Docket No. 87-A (Grazing and Fiscal Claims) Before the United 
States Court of Federal Claims

April 8, 1994.
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: This plan was effective as of March 9, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Terry Lamb, Historian, Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, Division of Tribal Government Services, MS 2611-MIB, 
1849 C Street, NW., Washington, DC 20240.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Act of October 19, 1973 (Pub. L. 93-134, 
87 Stat. 466), as amended, requires that a plan be prepared and 
submitted to Congress for the use and distribution of funds 
appropriated to pay a judgment of the Indian Claims Commission or Court 
of Claims to any Indian tribe. Funds were appropriated on December 16, 
1992 in satisfaction of the award granted to the Walker River Paiute 
Tribe before the United States Court of Federal Claims in Docket 87-A 
(Grazing and Fiscal Claims). The plan for the use of the funds was 
submitted to Congress with a letter dated October 5, 1993 and was 
received (as recorded in the Congressional Record) by the Senate on 
October 18, 1993 and by the House of Representatives on October 13, 
1993. The plan became effective March 9, 1994 as provided by the 1973 
Act, as amended by Pub. L. 97-458, since a joint resolution 
disapproving it was not enacted. The plan reads as follows:

For the Use and Distribution of Judgment Funds Awarded to the Walker 
River Paiute Indian Tribe in Docket 87-A (Grazing and Fiscal Claims) 
before the United States Court of Federal Claims

    The funds appropriated on December 16, 1992 in satisfaction of the 
award granted in Docket 87-A (Grazing and Fiscal Claims), granted to 
the Walker River Paiute Tribe before the United States Court of Federal 
Claims, less attorney fees and litigation expenses, and including all 
interest and investment income accrued, shall be used and distributed 
as follows:

Per Capita Aspect

    Seventy (70) percent of the funds shall be distributed in the form 
of per capita payments by the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter 
the ``Secretary'') in sums as equal as possible to all tribal members 
born on or prior to and living on the effective date of this plan, 
except that individuals who have received per capita payments or 
dividend payments from any other federally recognized tribe or tribes, 
by virtue of tribal membership, shall not be eligible to participate in 
the per capita payment aspect of this plan.
    The tribal governing body shall establish, with the approval of the 
Secretary, procedures and a deadline for the filing of applications for 
tribal enrollment. Such deadline shall not be established on a 
Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Programming Aspect

    Thirty (30) percent of the funds, and any amounts remaining from 
the per capita payments provided above, shall be invested by the 
Secretary, and the principal, interest, and investment income accrued 
shall be available on a budgetary basis to the tribal governing body, 
subject to the approval of the Secretary, to be used for tribal 
educational priorities, specifically for the construction and operation 
of a school on the Walker River Indian Reservation.

General Provisions

    The per capita shares of living, competent adults shall be paid 
directly to them. The per capita shares of deceased individual 
beneficiaries shall be determined and distributed in accordance with 43 
CFR, part 4, subpart D. Per capita shares of legal incompetents and 
minors shall be handled as provided in the Act of October 19, 1973, 87 
Stat. 466, as amended January 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2512.
    The Secretary, in arranging for the per capita payments to be made, 
shall withhold sufficient shares for individuals, whose eligibility may 
be in question. Those shares shall be held at interest in separate 
Individual Indian Money (IIM) accounts, pending determination of an 
individual's enrollment appeal. The amount of any shares not used to 
pay successful appellants shall be available for use in the programming 
aspect of this plan.
    None of the funds distributed per capita or made available under 
this plan for programming shall be subject to Federal or State income 
taxes, nor shall such funds nor their availability be considered as 
income or resources nor otherwise utilized as the basis for denying or 
reducing the financial assistance or other benefits to which such 
household or member would otherwise be entitled under the Social 
Security Act or, except for per capita shares in excess of $2,000, any 
Federal or federally assisted programs.
Ada E. Deer,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 94-9586 Filed 4-20-94; 8:45 am]
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