Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 25 : Section 640d-5


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 640d-5. Considerations and guidelines for preparation of report by Mediator and final adjudication by District Court

      The Mediator in preparing his report, and the District Court in
    making the final adjudication, pursuant to section 640d-3 of this
    title, shall consider and be guided by the decision of the Healing
    case, under which the tribes have joint, undivided, and equal
    interests in and to all of the joint use area; by any partial
    agreement reached by the parties under section 640d-2(b) of this
    title; by the last best offer for a complete settlement as a part
    of the negotiating process by each of the tribes; and by the
    following:
      (a) The rights and interests, as defined in the Healing case, of
    the Hopi Tribe in and to that portion of the reservation
    established by the Executive order of December 16, 1882, which is
    known as land management district no. 6 (hereinafter referred to as
    the "Hopi Reservation") shall not be reduced or limited in any
    manner.
      (b) The boundary lines resulting from any partitioning of lands
    in the joint use area shall be established so as to include the
    higher density population areas of each tribe within the portion of
    the lands partitioned to such tribe to minimize and avoid undue
    social, economic, and cultural disruption insofar as practicable.
      (c) In any division of the surface rights to the joint use area,
    reasonable provision shall be made for the use of and right of
    access to identified religious shrines for the members of each
    tribe on the reservation of the other tribe where such use and
    access are for religious purposes.
      (d) In any partition of the surface rights to the joint use area,
    the lands shall, insofar as is practicable, be equal in acreage and
    quality: Provided, That if such partition results in a lesser
    amount of acreage, or value, or both to one tribe such differential
    shall be fully and finally compensable to such tribe by the other
    tribe. The value of the land for the purposes of this subsection
    shall be based on not less than its value with improvements and its
    grazing capacity fully restored: Provided further, That, in the
    determination of compensation for any such differential, the
    Federal Government shall pay any difference between the value of
    the particular land involved in its existing state and the value of
    such land in a fully restored state which results from damage to
    the land which the District Court finds attributable to a failure
    of the Federal Government to provide protection where such
    protection is or was required by law or by the demands of the trust
    relationship.
      (e) Any lands partitioned to each tribe in the joint use area
    shall, where feasible and consistent with the other provisions of
    this section, be contiguous to the reservation of each such tribe.
      (f) Any boundary line between lands partitioned to the two tribes
    in the joint use area shall, insofar as is practicable, follow
    terrain which will facilitate fencing or avoid the need for
    fencing.
      (g) Any claim the Hopi Tribe may have against the Navajo Tribe
    for an accounting of all sums collected by the Navajo Tribe since
    September 17, 1957, as trader license fees or commissions, lease
    rental, or proceeds, or other similar charges for doing business or
    for damages in the use of lands within the joint use area, shall be
    for a one-half share in such sums.
      (h) Any claim the Hopi Tribe may have against the Navajo Tribe
    for the determination and recovery of the fair value of the grazing
    and agricultural use of the lands within the joint use area by the
    Navajo Tribe and its individual members, since September 28, 1962,
    shall be for one-half of such value.



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