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25 U.S.C. § 293a — Conveyance of school properties to local school districts or public agencies
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The Secretary of the Interior, or his authorized representative, is authorized to convey to State or local governmental agencies or to local school authorities all the right, title, and interest of the United States in any land and improvements thereon and personal property used in connection therewith heretofore or hereafter used for Federal Indian school purposes and no longer needed for such purposes: Provided, That the consent of the beneficial owner shall be obtained before the conveyance of title to land held by the United States in trust for an individual Indian or Indian tribe: Provided further, That no more than fifty acres of land shall be transferred under the terms of this section in connection with any single school property conveyed to State or local governmental agencies or to local school authorities. Any conveyance under this section shall reserve all mineral deposits in the land and the right to prospect for and remove such deposits under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, shall require the property to be used for school or other public purposes, and shall require the property to be available to Indians and non-Indians on the same terms unless otherwise approved by the Secretary of the Interior. If at any time the Secretary of the Interior determines that the grantee of any such lands, improvements, and personal property has failed to observe the provisions of the transfer agreement and that the failure has continued for at least one year, he may declare a forfeiture of the conveyance and the title conveyed shall thereupon revert to the United States. Such determination by the Secretary of the Interior shall be final. If the grantee of such land fails for a period of one year to observe the provisions of the transfer agr
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The Secretary of the Interior, or his authorized representative, is authorized to convey to State or local governmental agencies or to local school authorities all the right, title, and interest of the United States in any land and improvements thereon and personal property used in connection therewith heretofore or hereafter used for Federal Indian school purposes and no longer needed for such purposes: Provided, That the consent of the beneficial owner shall be obtained before the conveyance of title to land held by the United States in trust for an individual Indian or Indian tribe: Provided further, That no more than fifty acres of land shall be transferred under the terms of this section in connection with any single school property conveyed to State or local governmental agencies or to local school authorities. Any conveyance under this section shall reserve all mineral deposits in the land and the right to prospect for and remove such deposits under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, shall require the property to be used for school or other public purposes, and shall require the property to be available to Indians and non-Indians on the same terms unless otherwise approved by the Secretary of the Interior. If at any time the Secretary of the Interior determines that the grantee of any such lands, improvements, and personal property has failed to observe the provisions of the transfer agreement and that the failure has continued for at least one year, he may declare a forfeiture of the conveyance and the title conveyed shall thereupon revert to the United States. Such determination by the Secretary of the Interior shall be final. If the grantee of such land fails for a period of one year to observe the provisions of the transfer agreement and the Secretary of the Interior fails to declare a forfeiture of the conveyance, the former beneficial owner, if an individual Indian or an Indian tribe, may petition the United States District Court for the district where the land is located to declare a forfeiture of the conveyance and to vest the title in the United States, in the same trust status as previously existed.
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**(a) Omitted**
**(b) School lands settlement**
(1) In full and final settlement of any and all claims by the State of Alaska arising under the Act of March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1214), as confirmed and transferred in section 6(k) of the Alaska Statehood Act, the State is hereby granted seventy-five thousand acres which it shall be entitled to select until January 4, 1994, from vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved public lands. In exercising the selection rights granted herein, the State shall be deemed to have relinquished all claims to any right, title, or interest to any school lands which failed to vest under the above statutes at the time Alaska became a State (January 3, 1959), including lands unsurveyed on that date or surveyed lands which were within Federal reservations or withdrawals on that date.
(2) Except as provided herein, such selections shall be made in conformance with the provisions for selections under section 6(b) of the Alaska Statehood Act. Selections made under this subsection shall be in units of whole sections as shown on the official survey plats of the Bureau of Land Management, including protraction diagrams, unless part of the section is unavailable or the land is otherwise surveyed, or unless the Secretary waives the whole section requirement.
(3) Lands selected and conveyed to the State under this subsection shall be subject to the provisions of subsections (j) and (k) of section 6 of the Alaska Statehood Act.
**(c) Prior tentative approvals**
(1) All tentative approvals of State of Alaska land selections pursuant to the Alaska Statehood Act are hereby confirmed, subject only to valid existing rights and Native selection rights under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act [[43 U.S.C. 1601](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=gran
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TITLE 25—INDIANS
§ 293b
sixty acres in any one tract, when said land or
a part thereof is no longer needed for the origi-
nal purpose; the proceeds therefrom in all cases
to be paid into the Treasury of the United
States; title to be evidenced by a patent in fee
simple for such lands as can be described in
terms of the legal survey, or by deed duly exe-
cuted by the Secretary of the Interior con-
taining such metes-and-bounds description as
will identify the land so conveyed as the land
which had been purchased: Provided, That where
the purchase price was paid from tribal funds,
the net proceeds shall be placed in the Treasury
of the United States to the credit of the respec-
tive tribes of Indians.
(Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 146, § 1, 39 Stat. 973; Oct. 31, 1951,
ch. 654, § 2(17), 65 Stat. 707.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
In text, ‘‘chapters 1 to 11 of title 40 and division C (ex-
cept sections 3302, 3306(f), 3307(e), 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4104,
4710, and 4711) of subtitle I of title 41’’ substituted for
‘‘the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act
of 1949, as amended’’ on authority of Pub. L. 107–217,
§ 5(c), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1303, which Act enacted
Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, and
Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which
Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.
AMENDMENTS
1951—Act Oct. 31, 1951, inserted reference to applica-
ble regulations of the Federal Property and Adminis-
trative Services Act of 1949, as amended, at beginning
of section; struck out ‘‘net’’ before ‘‘proceeds’’ in clause
immediately following first semicolon; and, in proviso,
substituted ‘‘the net proceeds’’ for ‘‘such proceeds’’.
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