§7 Untitled Section

Summary

The Secretary must investigate all White Earth allotments and make lists of the allotments or interests that fall under sections 4(a), 4(b), or 5(c). Each listed item must show the allotment number, a land description, and the allottee’s name, in English and Ojibway if available. The first list must be published within 180 days after March 24, 1986, in the Federal Register and in local newspapers (including papers in Mahnomen, Becker, and Clearwater Counties, one in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area, and possibly a tribal paper). Those newspapers must publish the list no later than 30 days after the Federal Register notice. Anyone (a tribe, band, group, or person) has one year after the Federal Register notice to send the Secretary extra allotments or interests they think should be on the list, with the land description and reasons. The Secretary can also add items on their own. The Secretary must publish a second list by March 12, 1989, in the same places. Court challenges to inclusion on the first list must be filed under the Administrative Procedure Act within 90 days of the first list’s Federal Register publication. Challenges to the second list (or to a decision not to include an item) must be filed within 90 days of the second list’s publication. The Secretary may later add items to the second list, or make a one-time deletion for items found not to qualify or included by mistake; each change must be published in the Federal Register, and any challenge must be filed within 90 days of that notice. All legal challenges must be brought in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.