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§835e Payment for Lands Acquired From Spokane and Colville Reservations

Title 16 › Chapter 12D— COLUMBIA BASIN PROJECT › § 835e

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

When land or land interests are set aside under sections 835d to 835h, the Secretary of the Interior must decide a fair money amount to pay the Indians. For tribal lands, that money will be moved in the U.S. Treasury from funds now or later provided for constructing the Columbia Basin project and credited to the proper tribe under section 155 of title 25. Money owed to individual landowners, heirs, or devisees will be paid from those same project funds to the superintendent of the Colville Indian Agency or another officer chosen by the Secretary, who will put the payments on the agency’s books to the individuals’ accounts.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §835e

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As lands or interests in lands are designated from time to time under sections 835d to 835h of this title, the Secretary of the Interior shall determine the amount of money to be paid to the Indians as just and equitable compensation therefor. As to the tribal lands, the amounts so determined shall be transferred in the Treasury of the United States from the funds now or hereafter made available for the construction of the Columbia Basin project to the credit of the appropriate tribe pursuant to the provisions of section 155 of title 25. The amounts due individual landowners or their heirs or devisees shall be paid from funds now or hereafter made available for the construction of said project to the superintendent of the Colville Indian Agency or such other officer as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Interior for credit on the books of said agency to the accounts of the individuals concerned.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Act May 27, 1937, as amended by act Mar. 10, 1943, changed name of project from “Grand Coulee Dam” to “Columbia Basin”.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For

Transfer of Functions

of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

16 U.S.C. § 835e

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60