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[CITE: 25USC574a]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
      SUBCHAPTER XV--SHOSHONE TRIBE: DISTRIBUTION OF JUDGMENT FUND
 
Sec. 574a. Acquisition of lands on Wind River Reservation


(a) Authority to hold lands in trust for individual tribe

    The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to acquire 
individually in the name of the United States in trust for the benefit 
of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation or the 
Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, as appropriate, 
lands or other rights when the individual assets of only one of the 
tribes is used to acquire such lands or other rights.

(b) Lands remain part of joint Reservation subject to exclusive tribal 
        control

    Any lands acquired under subsection (a) of this section within the 
exterior boundaries of the Wind River Reservation shall remain a part of 
the Reservation and subject to the joint tribal laws of the Reservation, 
except that the lands so acquired shall be subject to the exclusive use 
and control of the tribe for which such lands were acquired.

(c) Income

    The income from lands acquired under subsection (a) of this section 
shall be credited to the tribe for which such lands were acquired.

(d) Savings provision

    Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the joint 
acquisition of lands for the benefit of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe of 
the Wind River Reservation and the Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind 
River Reservation.

(Pub. L. 103-435, Sec. 15, Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4573.)
