§2104 Secretary’s Review of Prior Minerals Agreements

Summary

The Secretary must review, within 90 days after December 22, 1982, any Minerals Agreement (not a lease) that a tribe signed and the Secretary approved between January 1, 1975 and December 22, 1982. The review only looks at the agreement’s written terms, not whether the parties followed them. The Secretary must tell the tribe and other parties what changes are needed to meet the chapter’s purposes. The tribe and parties must make those changes within 90 days after notice. If they do not, they cannot use this chapter’s provisions as a defense in any legal challenge to the agreement. The review may be done before creating the regulations required under section 2107. The review is not a Federal action under 42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C).