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[CITE: 25USC4041]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
        CHAPTER 42--AMERICAN INDIAN TRUST FUND MANAGEMENT REFORM
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS
 
Sec. 4041. Purposes

    The purposes of this subchapter are--
        (1) to provide for more effective management of, and 
    accountability for the proper discharge of, the Secretary's trust 
    responsibilities to Indian tribes and individual Indians by 
    establishing in the Department of the Interior an Office of Special 
    Trustee for American Indians to oversee and coordinate reforms 
    within the Department of practices relating to the management and 
    discharge of such responsibilities;
        (2) to ensure that reform of such practices in the Department is 
    carried out in a unified manner and that reforms of the policies, 
    practices, procedures and systems of the Bureau, Minerals Management 
    Service, and Bureau of Land Management, which carry out such trust 
    responsibilities, are effective, consistent, and integrated; and
        (3) to ensure the implementation of all reforms necessary for 
    the proper discharge of the Secretary's trust responsibilities to 
    Indian tribes and individual Indians.

(Pub. L. 103-412, title III, Sec. 301, Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4244.)
