Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1998: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, Part 2

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Page 289 - No state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any duty on tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
Page 16 - That such permits shall be allowed within or through any of said parks or any forest, military, Indian, or other reservation only upon the approval of the chief officer of the Department under whose supervision such park or reservation falls and upon a finding by him that the same is not incompatible with the public interest...
Page 1099 - The Secretary of the Interior is charged with the supervision of public business relating to * * * the Indians...
Page 480 - State in which such national forest is situated, to be expended as the state legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the public schools and public roads of the county or counties in which such national forest is situated...
Page 32 - Secretary may at any time prescribe and amend such rules and regulations as he determines to be necessary and proper in order to provide for the prevention of waste and conservation of the natural resources of the outer Continental Shelf...
Page 1048 - Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America...
Page 15 - Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the Geological Structure, mineral resources and products of the national domain...
Page 18 - Provided, that no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay more than one-half the cost of any topographic mapping or water resources Investigations carried on In cooperation with any State or municipality.
Page 856 - The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to acquire through purchase, relinquishment, gift, exchange, or assignment, any interest in lands, water rights or surface rights to lands, within or without existing reservations, including trust or otherwise restricted allotments whether the allottee be living or deceased, for the purpose of providing land for Indians.
Page 1033 - Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Under the terms of the Trusteeship Agreement between the United States and the Security Council of the United Nations, entered into on July 28, 1947 (61 Stat.

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