§ 3711. — Management of Indian rangelands and farmlands.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC3711]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 39--AMERICAN INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER I--RANGELAND AND FARMLAND ENHANCEMENT
Sec. 3711. Management of Indian rangelands and farmlands
(a) Management objectives
Consistent with the provisions of the Indian Self-Determination and
Education Assistance Act [25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.], the Secretary shall
provide for the management of Indian agricultural lands to achieve the
following objectives:
(1) To protect, conserve, utilize, and maintain the highest
productive potential on Indian agricultural lands through the
application of sound conservation practices and techniques. These
practices and techniques shall be applied to planning, development,
inventorying, classification, and management of agricultural
resources.
(2) To increase production and expand the diversity and
availability of agricultural products for subsistence, income, and
employment of Indians and Alaska Natives, through the development of
agricultural resources on Indian lands.
(3) To manage agricultural resources consistent with integrated
resource management plans in order to protect and maintain other
values such as wildlife, fisheries, cultural resources, recreation
and to regulate water runoff and minimize soil erosion.
(4) To enable Indian farmers and ranchers to maximize the
potential benefits available to them through their land by providing
technical assistance, training, and education in conservation
practices, management and economics of agribusiness, sources and use
of credit and marketing of agricultural products, and other
applicable subject areas.
(5) To develop Indian agricultural lands and associated value-
added industries of Indians and Indian tribes to promote self-
sustaining communities.
(6) To assist trust and restricted Indian landowners in leasing
their agricultural lands for a reasonable annual return, consistent
with prudent management and conservation practices, and community
goals as expressed in the tribal management plans and appropriate
tribal ordinances.
(b) Indian agricultural resource management planning program
(1) To meet the management objectives of this section, a 10-year
Indian agriculture resource management and monitoring plan shall be
developed and implemented as follows:
(A) Pursuant to a self-determination contract or self-governance
compact, an Indian tribe may develop or implement an Indian
agriculture resource plan. Subject to the provisions of subparagraph
(C), the tribe shall have broad discretion in designing and carrying
out the planning process.
(B) If a tribe chooses not to contract the development or
implementation of the plan, the Secretary shall develop or
implement, as appropriate, the plan in close consultation with the
affected tribe.
(C) Whether developed directly by the tribe or by the Secretary,
the plan shall--
(i) determine available agriculture resources;
(ii) identify specific tribal agricultural resource goals
and objectives;
(iii) establish management objectives for the resources;
(iv) define critical values of the Indian tribe and its
members and provide identified holistic management objectives;
(v) identify actions to be taken to reach established
objectives;
(vi) be developed through public meetings;
(vii) use the public meeting records, existing survey
documents, reports, and other research from Federal agencies,
tribal community colleges, and land grant universities; and
(viii) be completed within three years of the initiation of
activity to establish the plan.
(2) Indian agriculture resource management plans developed and
approved under this section shall govern the management and
administration of Indian agricultural resources and Indian agricultural
lands by the Bureau and the Indian tribal government.
(Pub. L. 103-177, title I, Sec. 101, Dec. 3, 1993, 107 Stat. 2014.)
References in Text
The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, referred
to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 93-638, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2203, as
amended, which is classified principally to subchapter II (Sec. 450 et
seq.) of chapter 14 of this title. For complete classification of this
Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 450 of this
title and Tables.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 3703, 3712 of this title.
