Sec. 702. Management of Indian forest land authorized to include related National Forest System lands and public lands
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Section 305 of the National Indian Forest Resources Management Act ( 25 U.S.C. 3104 ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: At the request of an Indian tribe, the Secretary concerned may treat Federal forest land as Indian forest land for purposes of planning and conducting forest land management activities under this section if the Federal forest land is located within, or mostly within, a geographic area that presents a feature or involves circumstances principally relevant to that Indian tribe, such as Federal forest land ceded to the United States by treaty, Federal forest land within the boundaries of a current or former reservation, or Federal forest land adjudicated to be tribal homelands.
In this subsection: The term Federal forest land means— National Forest System lands derived from the public domain; and public lands (as defined in section 103(e) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ( 43 U.S.C. 1702(e) )), including Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant lands reconveyed to the United States pursuant to the first section of the Act of February 26, 1919 (40 Stat. 1179), and Oregon and California Railroad Grant lands. The term Secretary concerned means— the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to the Federal forest land referred to in subparagraph (A)(i); and the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to the Federal forest land referred to in subparagraph (A)(ii). .
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Sec. 702
Management of Indian forest land authorized to include related National Forest System lands and public lands
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