acres in Carlton County, being a portion of the S2N2SW1/4 of section 4.

HARRY R. ANDERSON, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. April 24, 1967.

CHICO RANCHERIA IN CALIFORNIA Notice of Termination of Federal Supervision Over Property and Individual Members Thereof

Notice is hereby given that the Indians named below and the dependent members of their families named below who are not members of any other tribe or band of Indians are no longer entitled to any of the services performed by the United States for Indians because of their status as Indians; that all statutes of the United States which affect Indians because of their status as Indians shall be inapplicable to them, and the laws of the several States shall apply to them in the same manner as they apply to other citizens within their jurisdiction. Title to the land on the Chico Rancheria has passed from the U.S. Government under distribution plan dated December 11, 1960, for the above-named rancheria.

[Names of individuals omitted]

Chico Rancheria, comprised of two parcels, totaling 26 acres, more or less, located in Butte County, Calif., and more particularly described as follows:

Parcel No. 1. Being a portion of the Rancho Arroyo Chico, beginning at an iron post on the northerly side of Sacramento Avenue at its junction with the westerly side of a street, formerly known as Chestnut (being the easterly line of the present Indian village, formerly known as Me-choop-da Indian Village), the same being the southeasterly corner of Block F. of Chico Vecino; thence northerly along the westerly line of Chestnut Street, 442 feet to the southerly line of First Street; thence westerly along the southerly line of First Street. 1.342.85 feet to the right-of-way line of the California and Oregon (now Southern Pacific) Railroad; thence southerly along said railroad right-of-way, 473 feet to the northerly line of Sacramento Avenue, thence easterly along said northerly line of Sacramento Avenue, 1,174 feet to place of beginning.

Parcel No. 2. Beginning at a point on the southerly line of Sacramento Avenue at its intersection with the easterly right-of-way line of California and Oregon (now Southern Pacific) Railroad; thence southerly along the easterly line of said railroad right-of-way to a point marked by the intersection with said line of the northerly line of Lincoln Avenue produced; thence easterly along said northerly line of the extension of Lincoln Avenue to the extension of the easterly line of Parcel 1 herein above described, being the extension of the easterly boundary of the Indian village formerly known as Me-choop-da Indian Village; thence along said extension of the easterly boundary of said Indian village to the southerly line of Sacramento Avenue; thence westerly along the southerly line of Sacramento Avenue to the place of beginning.

This notice is issued pursuant to the Act of August 18, 1958 (72 Stat. 619), amended August 11, 1964 (78 Stat. 390), including the provisions in the 1964 Act that this notice affects only Indians who received any part of the assets of the rancheria and the dependent members of their immediate families who are not members of any other tribe or band of Indians; and that all restrictions and tax exemptions applicable to trust or restricted lands or interests therein owned by the Indians who are affected by this notice are terminated.

This notice becomes effective as of the

date of publication in the FEDERAL REGIS

TER.

HARRY R. ANDERSON, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. May 25, 1967.

[Order No. 2508, Amdt. No. 72] COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS Delegation of Authority

Delegation of authority to Commissioner of Indian Affairs with respect to the distribution of funds derived from appropriations in satisfaction of awards to Indian tribes by the Indian Claims Commission and the Court of Claims. Order 2508, as amended, is further amended to add subparagraphs 32 through 38 to section 30. As so amended, section 30 reads as follows:

SEC. 30. Authority under specific acts. (a) In addition to any authority delegated elsewhere in this order, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, is authorized to perform the functions and exercise the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior by the following acts or portions of acts or any acts amendatory thereof:

(32) Act of August 20, 1964, P.L. 88-464, 78 Stat. 563: The Snake and Paiute Indians of the former Malheur Reservation;

(33) Act of August 20, 1964, P.L. 88-506, 78 Stat. 639: The Nehalem Band of the Tillamook Indians and the Tillamook Band of the Tillamook Indians;

(34) Act of October 14, 1966, P.L. 89-655, 80 Stat. 905-906: The Quileute and Hoh Tribes;

(35) Act of October 14, 1966, P.L. 89-656, 80 Stat. 906: The Nooksack Tribe;

(36) Act of October 14, 1966, P.L. 89-659, 80 Stat. 909-910: The Miami Indians of Indiana and Oklahoma;

(37) Act of October 14, 1966, P.L. 89-660, 80 Stat. 910-911: The Duwamish Tribe of Indians.

(38) All other acts which may authorize the Secretary of the Interior to prepare a roll for purposes of distributing judgment funds and to distribute such funds to those persons whose names appear on the rolls.

United States for Indians because of their status as Indians; that all statutes of the United States which affect Indians because of their status as Indians shall be inapplicable to them, and the laws of the several States shall apply to them in the same manner as they apply to other citizens within their jurisdiction. Title to the land on the Smith River Rancheria has passed from the United States Government under distribution plan dated November 25, 1960, for the above-named rancheria.

[Names of individuals omitted]

Smith River Rancheria Located in Del Norte County, Calif., and more particularly described as the N1/2 NWNE, the NENE1⁄4, and fractional W% of sec. 17, T. 18 N., R. 1 W., H.B.M., originally contained 178.21 acres. This acreage was decreased to 163.96 acres by rights-of-way for county roads and U.S. Highway 101.

This notice is issued pursuant to the act of August 18, 1958 (72 Stat. 619), amended August 11, 1964 (78 Stat. 390), including the provisions in the 1964 act that this notice affects only Indians who received any part of the assets of the rancheria and the dependent members of their immediate families who are not members of any other tribe or band of Indians; and that all restrictions and tax exemptions applicable to trust or restricted lands or interests therein owned, by the Indians who are affected by this notice are terminated.

This notice becomes effective as of the date of publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER.

HARRY R. ANDERSON, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. July 25, 1967.

[Order No. 2508, Amdt. No. 73]

COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS Indian Health Matters; Amendment of Delegation of Authority

The Secretary of the Interior's Order 2508, as amended, and appearing at 14 F.R. 258 is further amended as follows:

1. The heading of section 10, "Health and Welfare Matters" is amended to read: "Social Services Matters" and subsections 10(a), (b), (c), and (d) thereof are deleted. The authority for the issuance of these subsections was terminated by Public Law 568, 83rd Congress (68 Stat. 674).

2. section 26, Repeal, is deleted from the order.

July 20, 1967.

STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary of the Interior.

AUBURN RANCHERIA IN CALIFORNIA Notice of Termination of Federal Supervision Over Property and Individual Members Thereof

Notice is hereby given that the Indians named below and the dependent members of their immediate families named below who are not members of any other tribe or band of Indians are no longer entitled to any of the services performed by the United States for Indians because of their status as Indians; that all statutes of the

United States which affect Indians because of their status as Indians shall be inapplicable to them, and the laws of the several States shall apply to them in the same manner as they apply to other citizens within their jurisdiction. Title to the land on the Auburn Rancheria has passed from the U.S. Government under distribution plan dated August 28, 1959, for the above-named rancheria.

[Names of individuals omitted]

AUBURN RANCHERIA

All those certain lots, pieces or parcels of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Placer, State of California, and bounded and particularly described as follows, to wit:

The E2 NW of the SE4 of sec. 21, T. 12 N., R. 8 E., M.D.B. & M.; and

The W2 NWASE of sec. 21, T. 12 N., R. 8 E., M.D.M.

This notice is issued pursuant to the act of August 18, 1958 (72 Stat. 619), amended August 11, 1964 (78 Stat. 390), including the provisions in the 1964 act that this notice affects only Indians who received any part of the assets of the rancheria and the dependent members of their immediate families who are not members of any other tribe or band of Indians; and that all restrictions and tax exemptions applicable to trust or restricted lands or interests therein owned by the Indians who are affected by this notice are terminated.

This notice becomes effective as of the date of publication in the FEDERAL REGIS

TER.

HARRY R. ANDERSON,

Assistant Secretary of the Interior. August 11, 1967.

COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

Delegation of Authority

The following material is a part of the Departmental Manual and the numbering is that of the Manual.

PART 230-BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS CHAPTER 2-FEDERAL REGISTER DOCUMENTS

230.2.1 Delegation. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is Authorized, subject to the limitations listed in 230 DM 2.2, to exercise all of the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations relating to Indian Affairs (Chapter I, Title 25, Code of Federal Regulations).

230.2.2 Limitations-A. Specific. The delegation contained in 230 DM 2.1 does not authorize the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to issue additions to, or to revoke or amend the following Parts of Chapter I, Title 25, Code of Federal Regulations:

Part 2 "Appeals from Administrative actions"

Part 15 "Determination of heirs and approval of wills except as to members of the Five Civilized Tribes and Osage Indians" Part 16 "Determination of heirs and probate of the estates of deceased Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes"

Part 17 "Action on wills of Osage Indians'

Part 42 "Enrollment appeals"

B. General. Any FEDERAL REGISTER document making substantial changes to the material in Chapter I, Title 25, Code of Federal Regulations, such as the addition of a new subchapter, or matters requiring important policy determinations, wll not be issued by the Commissioner without prior Secretarial review.

STEWART L. UDALL,
Secretary of the Interior.

September 29, 1967.

[Public Land Order 4299] SOUTH DAKOTA

Restoration of Lands to Ownership of Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of Indi

ans

By virtue of the authority contained in sections 3 and 7 of the act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984; 25 U.S.C. 463a), and pursuant to recommendations of the Tribal Council and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and a finding by the Secretary of the Interior that such action is in the public interest, it is ordered as follows:

The following described lands, ceded by the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of Indians to the United States, constituting undisposed of lands within and a part of the townsite of Dupree, and being no longer needed for townsite uses or purposes, are hereby restored to tribal ownership for the use and benefit of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of Indians, and are added to and made a part of the existing reservation, subject to any valid existing rights:

The areas described aggregate approximately 18.45 acres.

HARRY R. ANDERSON,

Assistant Secretary of the Interior. October 9, 1967.

[Public Land Order 4325]

NEW MEXICO

Withdrawal for Reclamation Project

By virtue of the authority contained in section 3 of the act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388; 43 U.S.C. 416), as amended and supplemented, it is ordered as follows:

Subject to valid existing rights, the following described public lands, which are under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, are hereby withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining laws (30 U.S.C., Ch. 2), but not from leasing under the mineral leasing laws, and reserved for the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project:

NEW MEXICO PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN

T. 27 N., R. 11 W.,

Sec. 3, lots 1 and 2.

T. 28 N., R. 11 W..

Sec. 34. S 2 SE1 4.

The areas described aggregate 161.60 acres in San Juan County.

HARRY R. ANDERSON, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. November 20, 1967.

COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS Delegation of Authority To Dedicate Certain Streets, Alleys, and Strips of Land on the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is authorized to perform the functions and exercise the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior by the Act of August 11, 1967 (P.L. 90-64, 81 Stat. 166), which provides that the Secretary, with the consent of the Agua Caliente Band of Mission Indians and within 1 year after August 11, 1967, may dedicate to the public for street purposes any of the streets, alleys, or strips of land in the W2 of sec. 14, T. 4 S., R. 4 E., San Bernardino meridian, city of Palm Springs, Riverside County, Calif. DAVID S. BLACK, Under Secretary of the Interior. November 29, 1967.

[Public Land Order 4364]

CALIFORNIA

Withdrawal in Aid of Proposed Legislation

By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior by section 4 of the act of March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 1347; 25 U.S.C. 398d), it is ordered as follows:

Subject to valid existing rights, the following described public lands which are

under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, are hereby temporarily withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining laws (30 U.S.C., ch. 2), and from leasing under the mineral leasing laws, in aid of legislation to add such lands to the Rincon Indian Reservation:

SAN BERNARDINO MERIDIAN

T. 10 S., R. 1 W.,

Sec. 28, E' 2 SW 4, and SE' 4;
Sec. 33, N' 2 NE' 4.

The areas described aggregate 320 acres in San Diego County.

HARRY R. ANDERSON,

Assistant Secretary of the Interior. February 12, 1968.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11399 Establishing the National Council on Indian Opportunity

WHEREAS the United States has initiated a number of programs in various Departments that should be made available for the development and benefit of the Indian population; and

WHEREAS these programs should be adapted and coordinated in such manner that Indians will participate in and be benefited by them:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. Establishment of Council. There is hereby established The National Council on Indian Opportunity (hereinafter referred to as the "Council"). The Council shall have membership as follows: The Vice President of the United States who shall be the chairman of the Council, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and six Indian leaders appointed by the President of the United States for terms of two years.

SEC. 2. Functions of the Council. The Council shall:

(a) Enourage full use of Federal programs to benefit the Indian population, adapting them where necessary to be available to Indians on reservations in a meaningful way.

(b) Encourage interagency coordination and cooperation in carrying out Federal programs as they relate to Indians.

(c) Appraise the impact and progress of Federal programs for Indians.

(d) Suggest ways to improve such programs.

SEC. 3. Compensation and per diem. Members of the Council who are officers of the Federal government shall receive no additional compensation by reason of this order. Other members of the Council shall be entitled to receive compensation and travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law for persons in the government service employed intermittently (5 U.S.C., §§ 3109, 5703).

SEC. 4. Assistance to the council. (a) Each Federal department and agency, represented on the Council shall furnish such necessary assistance to the Council as may be authorized by section 214 of the Act of May 3, 1945, 59 Stat. 134 (31 U.S.C. 691), or other law. The Department of the Interior shall furnish necessary administrative services for the Council.

(b) The staff of the Council shall include an Executive Director, who shall be appointed by the chairman of the Council,

and such other employees as may be necessary, who shall be assigned by the departments and agencies represented on the Council.

SEC. 5. Meetings. The Council shall meet on call of the chairman.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON.

THE WHITE HOUSE, March 6, 1968.

[Order No. 2508, Amdt. No. 74] COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS Delegation of Authority With Respect to Administration of Timber Sales on Certain Submarginal Lands

Section 16 of Order 2508, as amended, is further amended by the addition of a new paragraph to read as follows:

SEC. 16. Forestry* * *

(f) (1) The performance of the functions enumerated in Executive Order 7868, dated April 15, 1938, which transferred to the Secretary of the Interior jurisdiction over certain lands acquired pursuant to the following acts:

Title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act of June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 200). Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of April 8, 1935 (49 Stat. 115).

Section 55, Title I of the Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 750, 781).

(2) In the performance of the functions delegated in (1) above, the regulations with respect to the disposal of timber on Indian trust lands, in 25 CFR 141, shall govern, where applicable, the disposal of timber on these Government lands. All receipts from sales of timber under this authority shall be deposited in the U.S. Treasury, Account 142229, "Sale of Timber, Wildlife and Other Natural Land Products, not otherwise classified." These receipts shall not be subject to the administrative deduction authorized from receipts for sale of Indian-owned timber by the Act of February 14, 1920, as amended (25 CFR 141.18).

STEWART L. UDALL,
Secretary of the Interior.

Whereas, pursuant to the authority contained in the act of March 1, 1907 (34 Stat. 1032), the townsite of White Earth was established within the White Earth Indian Reservation, Minn.; and

Whereas, there are certain undisposed of lands within the townsite; and

Whereas, the Tribal Council and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs have recommended restoration of the townsite lands involved to tribal ownership;

Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority contained in sections 3 and 7 of the act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984; 25 U.S.C. 463(a), I hereby find that the restoration to tribal ownership of the lands described below will be in the public interest, and the said lands are hereby restored to tribal ownership of the Minnesota, Chippewa Tribe of the White Earth Indian Reservation, Minn., subject to any valid existing rights:

FIFTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN

Section 16 of Order No. 2508, as amended, is further amended to delete paragraph (c), which contains authority for the fixing of fair stumpage value of the annual timber cut of the former Menominee Reservation, Wis.; and to redesignate the succeeding paragraphs, so that section 16, in its entirety, now reads as follows:

SEC. 16. Forestry. The Commissioner may exercise the authority of the Secretary in relation to the following classes of matters; actions taken hereunder shall be subject to appeal to the Secretary in accordance with section 1 of this order. order.

(a) All those matters set forth in 25 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter M-Forestry.

(b) The adjustment of stumpage rates and the performing of all other administrative actions to be taken by the Secretary pursuant to timber sales contracts now in effect.

(c) The administration of existing and the negotiation and execution of new cooperative fire suppression agreements with Federal, State, and private agencies.

(d) The taking of any action necessary to prevent waste of timber from fire, decay, windthrow, insect infestation, disease, or other natural catastrophe on Indian lands held in trust by the United States.

(e) (1) The performance of the functions enumerated in Executive Order 7868, dated April 15, 1938, which transferred to the Secretary of the Interior jurisdiction over certain lands acquired pursuant to the following acts:

Title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act of June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 200).

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of April 8, 1935 (49
Stat. 115).
Section 55, Title I of the Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat.
750, 781).

(2) In the performance of the functions delegated in (1) above, the regulations with respect to the disposal of timber on Indian trust lands, in 25 CFR 141, shall govern, where applicable, the disposal of timber on these Government lands. All receipts from sales of timber under this authority shall be deposited in the U.S. Treasury, Account 142229, "Sale of Timber, Wildlife and Other Natural Land Products, not otherwise classified." These receipts shall not be subject to the administrative deduction authorized from receipts for sale of Indian-owned timber by the Act of February 14, 1920, as amended (25 CFR 141.18).

June 26, 1968.

STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary of the Interior.

(Public Land Order 4502]

OKLAHOMA

Partial Restoration of Lands Withdrawn Under Departmental Order of September 19, 1934

By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior by section 4 of the act of March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 1347; 25 U.S.C. 398d), it is ordered as follows:

1. The departmental order of September 19, 1934, temporarily withdrawing vacant and undisposed of lands of certain Indian Reservations, pending restoration of such lands to tribal ownership is hereby revoked so far as it affects the following described undisposed of lands, within the ceded Wichita, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe, and Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache reservations in Oklahoma: