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[78 STAT. 740]
PUBLIC LAW 88-000—MMMM. DD, 1964
[78 STAT. 740]

740

Appropriation.

Cemeteries, shrines, etc., relocation.

Minerals, reservation.

Harvest of crops, etc.

PUBLIC LAW 88-533-AUG. 31, 1964

[78 STAT.

Interior first deteniiiiies and certifies that no hardsliip will result from the payment of such delinquent debts. SEC. 4. There is authorized to be appropriated the additional sum of $12,128,917, which shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Seneca Nation and which shall draw interest on the principal at the rate of 4 per centum per annum until expended for assistance designed to improve the economic, social, and educational conditions of enrolled members of the Seneca Nation, including but not limited to the following purposes: (a) developing and carrying out individual and family plans, including relocation and resettlement and the construction of roads, utilities, sanitation facilities, houses, and related stnictures; (b) the construction and maintenance of community buildings and other community facilities; and (c) industrial and recreational development on the Allegany, (Cattaraugus, and Oil Springs Eeservations. The funds authorized by this section shall be expended in accordance with plans and programs approved by the Seneca Nation and the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That no part of such funds shall be used for per capita payments. SEC. 5. The Secretary of the AiTny, out of funds a p p r o p r i a t e for the Allegheny Reservoir project other than funds provided by this Act, is authorized and directed to relocate and reestablish within the Allegany Reservation such Indian cemeteries, tribal monuments, graves, and shrines inside the taking area as the Seneca Nation or the next of kin shall select and designate: Provided, That reinterment of individual remains, though not entire cemeteries, outside the boundaries of the Allegany Reservation also is authorized if so desired by the next of kin, but in such event reinterment to a site which exceeds the equivalent distance from the disinterment site to the farthest point at which reinterment could be made within the reservation boundaries will be made only if the next of kin agrees to pay the added cost: And provided further. That the Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to provide a trust fund in an amount computed on the basis of $14.40 for each reinterment for the l>erpetual care and maintenance of the graves for the reinterments at the two cemetery relocation sites selected by the Seneca Nation. SEC. 6. All minerals of any kind whatsoever, including oil and gas and sand and gravel, within the areas subjected to the interests in land acquired by the United States as set forth in section 1 of this Act, are hereby reserved to the Seneca Nation: Provided, That the exploration and development of such minerals, including oil and gas and sand and gravel, within the taking areas shall be consistent with said interests in land and subject to all reasonable regulations of the Secretary of the Army necessary for the protection of the Allegheny Reservoir project. SEC. 7. Members of the Seneca Nation shall have the right without charge to remain on and use the lands subject to the interests in land acquired by the United States as set forth in section 1 of this Act until I'equired to vacate at such times as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Army with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and after consultation with the Seneca Nation: Provided, That the time for vacating in any event will not extend beyond January 1, 1965, unless the Secretary of the Army otherwise permits. SEC. 8. U p to sixty days before the date for vacating in accordance with section 7, the Seneca Nation on its common lands within the taking area for the Allegheny Reservoir project, and individual Seneca Indians on lands in which they have an interest as shown on the sched-