PUBLIC LAW 96-549—DEC. 18, 1980
94 STAT. 3219
Public Law 96-549 96th Congress An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reimburse certain purchsisers of subleases from, and creditors of, the Sangre de Cristo Development Company, Incorporated, and for other purposes.
Dec. 18, 1980 [S. 1972]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That (a) the Secre- Sangre de Cristo tary of the Interior is authorized to reimburse persons who are Development Company, Inc. determined by the Secretary to be bona fide purchasers of subleases Reimbursementti. from the Sangre de Cristo Development Company, Incorporated (a corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of New Mexico), for subdivision lots on the Pueblo of Tesuque Indian Reservation near Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Secretary is authorized to reimburse such persons for the amounts they have expended in the acquisition of a sublease or subleases and upon receipt of such compensation such persons must relinquish all claims or rights, if any, they may have arising from their sublease. (b) Applications for reimbursement under this Act shall be in such Applications form and contain such information as the Secretary of the Interior, by regulation, shall prescribe. No application for reimbursement shall be considered by the Secretary unless it is submitted on or before the date of expiration of the twenty-four-month period following the date of enactment of this Act. (c) Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary shall reimburse those applicants who are determined to be bona fide purchasers of subleases from the Sangre de Cristo Development Company, Incorporated, pursuant to its master lease with Tesuque Pueblo initially approved May 24, 1970, by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and subsequently disapproved on August 24, 1977. As used in this Act, the term "bona fide purchasers" shall mean anyone who purchased a sublease in an arm's-length transaction, for value and without notice. (d) Within the one-hundred-and-eighty-day period following the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall take such action as may be necessary to inform purchasers of such subleases from the Sangre de Cristo Development Company, Incorporated, of the fact that the Secretary of the Interior has authority to reimburse any such person determined by the Secretary to be a bona fide purchaser of such sublease for the amounts expended by such purchaser in the acquisition of such sublease. The Secretary shall further inform such purchasers that any application for reimbursement must be submitted on or before the date of expiration of the twenty-four-month period following the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 2. (a) Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary of the Interior shall reimburse bona fide creditors of the Sangre de Cristo Development Company, Incorporated, who shall have been certified as such by the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, Bankruptcy Division, in the action entitled "Sangre de Cristo Development Company, Incorporated, No. 77-1044 in Bank-
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