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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 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.
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