§ 631. — Basic program for conservation and development of resources; projects; appropriations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC631]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER XXI--NAVAJO AND HOPI TRIBES: REHABILITATION
Sec. 631. Basic program for conservation and development of
resources; projects; appropriations
In order to further the purposes of existing treaties with the
Navajo Indians, to provide facilities, employment, and services
essential in combating hunger, disease, poverty, and demoralization
among the members of the Navajo and Hopi Tribes, to make available the
resources of their reservations for use in promoting a self-supporting
economy and self-reliant communities, and to lay a stable foundation on
which these Indians can engage in diversified economic activities and
ultimately attain standards of living comparable with those enjoyed by
other citizens, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed
to undertake, within the limits of the funds from time to time
appropriated pursuant to this subchapter, a program of basic
improvements for the conservation and development of the resources of
the Navajo and Hopi Indians, the more productive employment of their
manpower, and the supplying of means to be used in their rehabilitation,
whether on or off the Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations. Such program
shall include the following projects for which capital expenditures in
the amount shown after each project listed in the following subsections
and totaling $108,570,000 are authorized to be appropriated:
(1) Soil and water conservation and range improvement work,
$10,000,000.
(2) Completion and extension of existing irrigation projects,
and completion of the investigation to determine the feasibility of
the proposed San Juan-Shiprock irrigation project, $9,000,000.
(3) Surveys and studies of timber, coal, mineral, and other
physical and human resources, $500,000.
(4) Development of industrial and business enterprises,
$1,000,000.
(5) Development of opportunities for off-reservation employment
and resettlement and assistance in adjustments related thereto,
$3,500,000.
(6) Relocation and resettlement of Navajo and Hopi Indians
(Colorado River Indian Reservation), $5,750,000.
(7) Roads and trails, $40,000,000; of which not less than
$20,000,000 shall be (A) available for contract authority for such
construction and improvement of the roads designated as route 1 and
route 3 on the Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations as may be
necessary to bring the portion of such roads located in any State up
to at least the secondary road standards in effect in such State,
and (B) in addition to any amounts expended on such roads under the
$20,000,000 authorization provided under this clause prior to
amendment.
(8) Telephone and radio communications systems, $250,000.
(9) Agency, institutional, and domestic water supply,
$2,500,000.
(10) Establishment of a revolving loan fund, $5,000,000.
(11) Hospital buildings and equipment, and other health
conservation measures, $4,750,000.
(12) School buildings and equipment, and other educational
measures, $25,000,000.
(13) Housing and necessary facilities and equipment, $820,000.
(14) Common service facilities, $500,000.
Funds so appropriated shall be available for administration,
investigations, plans, construction, and all other objects necessary for
or appropriate to the carrying out of the provisions of this subchapter.
Such further sums as may be necessary for or appropriate to the annual
operation and maintenance of the projects herein enumerated are also
authorized to be appropriated. Funds appropriated under these
authorizations shall be in addition to funds made available for use on
the Navajo and Hopi Reservations, or with respect to Indians of the
Navajo Tribes, out of appropriations heretofore or hereafter granted for
the benefit, care, or assistance of Indians in general, or made pursuant
to other authorizations now in effect.
(Apr. 19, 1950, ch. 92, Sec. 1, 64 Stat. 44; Pub. L. 85-740, Aug. 23,
1958, 72 Stat. 834.)
Amendments
1958--Pub. L. 85-740 substituted $108,570,000 for $88,570,000 in
opening par., and, in cl. (7), increased from $20,000,000 to $40,000,000
the amount authorized for roads and trails, of which not less than
$20,000,000 shall be available for contract authority to bring routes 1
and 3 on the Navajo and Hopi Indian reservations up to secondary road
standards in the State.
Contract Authority; Appropriations
Pub. L. 85-740 provided in part that the contract authority and
appropriations authorized by the amendment to clause (7) of this section
shall be in addition to sums apportioned to Indian reservations or to
the State of Arizona under the Federal Highway Act, as amended and
supplemented.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 633, 634 of this title.
