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The Secretary must complete every action needed within 365 days

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. Written by .

The Secretary must complete every action needed within 365 days

The document says “shallWho acts: Secretary of the InteriorHow: statuteSec. 3 in the PDF
What the document says

“Not later than 365 days after enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall-- (1) complete all actions, including documentation and minor corrections to the survey and legal description of Tribal land, necessary for the Tribal land to be held by the Tribes in restricted fee status;”

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, Sec. 3

Subsection (a)(1), the operative duty of the Act. Within 365 days of enactment the Secretary of the Interior is to complete every action needed for the land to be held by the Tribes in restricted fee status, documentation and minor corrections to the survey and legal description among them. The subsection does not list the actions. Restricted fee status is the term defined in section 2.

What the document actually says

“Not later than 365 days after enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall-- (1) complete all actions, including documentation and minor corrections to the survey and legal description of Tribal land, necessary for the Tribal land to be held by the Tribes in restricted fee status;”

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, Sec. 3
That sentence, in plain words

The head of the land agency has one year. In that time all steps must be done. Then the tribes hold the land in the new way. Papers and small fixes to the survey are part of the work.

What this is about

The clock starts on the day the law was signed. The steps are the paper work that moves the land. The law does not list each step.

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