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[CITE: 25USC640d-4]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
   SUBCHAPTER XXII--NAVAJO AND HOPI TRIBES: SETTLEMENT OF RIGHTS AND 
                                INTERESTS
 
Sec. 640d-4. Authorized recommendations for facilitation of 
        agreement or report to District Court; discretionary nature of 
        recommendations
        
    (a) For the purpose of facilitating an agreement pursuant to section 
640d-2 of this title or preparing a report pursuant to section 640d-3 of 
this title, the Mediator is authorized--
        (1) notwithstanding the provisions of section 211 of this title, 
    to recommend that, subject to the consent of the Secretary, there be 
    purchased or otherwise acquired additional lands for the benefit of 
    either tribe from the funds of either tribe or funds under any other 
    authority of law;
        (2) to recommend that, subject to the consent of the Secretary, 
    there be undertaken a program of restoration of lands lying within 
    the joint use area, employing for such purpose funds authorized by 
    this subchapter, funds of either tribe, or funds under any other 
    authority of law;
        (3) to recommend that, subject to the consent of the Secretary, 
    there be undertaken a program for relocation of members of one tribe 
    from lands which may be partitioned to the other tribe in the joint 
    use area;
        (4) Repealed. Pub. L. 93-531, Sec. 30(a), as added Pub. L. 96-
    305, Sec. 11, July 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 934.
        (5) to make any other recommendations as are in conformity with 
    this subchapter and the Healing case to facilitate a settlement.

    (b) The authorizations contained in subsection (a) of this section 
shall be discretionary and shall not be construed to represent any 
directive of the Congress.

(Pub. L. 93-531, Sec. 5, Dec. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 1714; Pub. L. 93-531, 
Sec. 30(a), as added Pub. L. 96-305, Sec. 11, July 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 
934.)


                               Amendments

    1980--Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 96-305 struck out par. (4) which 
authorized the Mediator to recommend, in exceptional cases where 
necessary to prevent hardship, a limited tenure for residential use, not 
exceeding a life estate, and a phased relocation of members of one tribe 
from lands which may be partitioned to the other tribe in the joint use 
area.
