PUBLIC LAW 99-600—NOV. 5, 1986
100 STAT. 3355
be rejected and the advance rental payments returned to the apphcants. SEC. 4. CERTAIN RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO LANDS HELD IN TRUST FOR PUEBLO OF ZIA.
(a) VALID EXISTING RIGHTS.—Nothing in this Act shall deprive any person (other than the United States) of any lease, right-of-way, mining claim, grazing permit, water right, or other right or interest which such person may have in the surface or mineral estate of any lands described in section 1 on the day before the date of enactment of this Act. (b) WATER RIGHTS.—The water rights appurtenant to the lands described in section 1 shall be those water rights that are appurtenant to such lands under State law on the day before the date of enactment of this Act. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to create or affect any water rights other than those that are appurtenant to such lands under State law on the day before the date of enactment of this Act.
Minerals and mining. Water.
State and local governments.
(c) RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR 1 1 5 - K V TRANSMISSION LINE.—(1) Nothing
in this Act shall affect the right-of-way over any lands described in section I for a 115-KV transmission line by Plains Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperative, Inc., granted by the Bureau of Land Management of the Department of the Interior on April 18, 1961, and bearing identification number NM0149992. (2) Plains Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperative, Inc., and its successors and assigns, shall be permitted to renew the rightof-way described in paragraph (1) under rules and regulations of the Secretary to the same extent and in the same manner that such permit could have been renewed if this Act had not been enacted. (3) No charge, fee, or tax may be imposed by the Pueblo of Zia on Taxes. any lands, facilities, activities, or revenues in connection with the right-of-way described in paragraph (1), except for fees charged with respect to any renewed right-of-way described in paragraph (2). (d) OIL AND GAS LEASES.—(1) Nothing in this Act shall affect— (A) the oil and gas lease issued on May 1, 1983, by the United States to Yates Petroleum Corporation, bearing Serial No. NM 55801, (B) the oil and gas lease issued December 1, 1977, by the United States to Merle C. Chambers, Denver, Colorado, bearing Serial No. NM 31557, (C) any other oil or gas leases that were valid and existing on the day before the date of enactment of this Act, (D) any right, term, condition, and covenant (both express and implied) granted under any oil or gas lease referred to in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C), and (E) reasonable access (including, but not limited to, rights of ingress and egress) across lands described in section 1 or which are otherwise owned by or under the control of the Pueblo of Zia
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