Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§835e Payment for Lands Acquired From Spokane and Colville Reservations
Title 16 › CHAPTER 12D — COLUMBIA BASIN PROJECT › § 835e
Summary
When land or land interests are taken under the related laws, the Secretary of the Interior must set a fair cash payment for the Indians. Money for tribes comes from Columbia Basin project construction funds in the U.S. Treasury and is put to the tribe’s credit. Payments for individual owners or their heirs come from the same funds to the Colville Indian Agency to be entered on 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.
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Citations & Metadata
Citation
16 U.S.C. § 835e
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102