PUBLIC LAW 96-277—JUNE 17, 1980 Bureau of Indian Affairs officer, employee, or agent, or by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the case of an Indian Health Service officer, employee, or agent, or a designee of such Secretary who is not employed at such office or installation: Provided further. That (1) any such designee may not be a relative by blood or marriage of the officer, employee, or agent engaging in such purchase or sale; (2) with respect to purchases or sales by any officer, employee, or agent employed at the reservation, agency, or service unit level, such designee must be employed at not less than one grade level higher than such officer, employee, or agent at the Washington, District of Columbia, central office or at an area office installation other than that with authority over such reservation, agency, or service unit; (3) with respect to purchases or sales by any officer, employee, or agent employed at the area office level, such designee must be employed at not less than one grade level higher than such officer, employee, or agent at the Washington, District of Columbia, central office; and (4) the Secretary must approve purchases or sales by any officer, employee, or agent employed at the Washington, District of Columbia, central office; or "(C) to acquire any interest in property held in trust, or subject to restriction against alienation imposed, by the United States unless the conveyance or granting of such interest in such property is otherwise authorized by law. "(c) Except as provided in subsection (b)(2), nothing contained in this section shall be construed as preventing any officer, employee, or agent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health Service who is an Indian, of whatever degree of Indian blood, from obtaining or receiving any benefit or benefits made available to Indians generally or to any member of his or her particular tribe, under any Act of Congress, nor to prevent any such officer, employee, or agent who is an Indian from being a member of or receiving benefits by reason of his or her membership in any Indian tribe, corporation, or cooperative association organized by Indians, when authorized under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, or their designee shall prescribe. "(d) For purposes of this section, the term 'Indian' means any member of an Indian tribe recognized as eligible for the services provided by the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is residing on a Federal Indian Reservation, on land held in trust by the United States for Indians, or on land subject to a restriction against alienation imposed by the United States. The term shall also include any such tribe and any Indian owned or controlled organization located on such a reservation or land. "(e) For purposes of this section, the term 'Bureau of Indian Affairs' means the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, both in the Department of the Interior.". SEC. 2. Section 2078 of the Revised Statutes (25 U.S.C. 68) and the Act of June 19, 1939 (53 Stat. 840; 25 U.S.C. 68a and 441), are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Interior may review any transaction, other than one involving the sale of property held in trust or subject to a restriction against alienation imposed by the United States, occurring prior to the effective date of this Act and, if the Secretary finds that such transaction would have been valid had the provisions of this Act been in effect at the time of such transaction, the
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Indian benefit entitlement.
"Indian."
"Bureau of Indian Affairs." Repeals. 25 USC 87a. Validity of transaction, declaration by Secretary of Interior. 18 USC 437 note.
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