Utility and service rights and agreements are to be assigned
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete all actions necessary for certain land to be held in restricted fee status by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and for other purposes, section 3, Sec. 3.
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Utility and service rights and agreements are to be assigned
The document says “shall”Who acts: Secretary of the InteriorHow: statuteSec. 3 in the PDF
What the document says
“appropriately assign each applicable private and municipal utility and service right or agreement with regard to the Tribal land.”
Subsection (a)(2), the second duty and inside the same 365 day deadline. Each applicable private or municipal utility and service right or agreement bearing on the Tribal land is to be assigned. The subsection does not identify the rights or agreements or name the parties to them.
What the document actually says
“appropriately assign each applicable private and municipal utility and service right or agreement with regard to the Tribal land.”
That sentence, in plain words
Rights and deals for water, power, and like service must be handed over as fits.
What this is about
Some of these deals are with private firms. Some are with a town. Both kinds are covered here.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act, Public Law 119-61, sec. 3, 139 Stat. 1978 (2025). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ61/html/PLAW-119publ61.htm
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“Utility and service rights and agreements are to be assigned,” Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act, section 3, Sec. 3. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/wounded-knee-massacre-memorial-sacred-site-act/proposal/sec03-assign-utility-rights-and-agreements/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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