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H. Rept. 114-446 1 (2016-03-10)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxrjt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP 114TH CONGRESS REPORT 2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 114-446 EXCHANGE OF COAL PREFERENCE RIGHT LEASE APPLICATIONS MARCH 10, 2016.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 1820] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1820) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to retire coal preference right lease applications for which the Secretary has made an affirmative commercial quantities determination, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably there- on without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of H.R. 1820 is to authorize the Secretary of the In- terior to retire coal preference right lease applications for which the Secretary has made an affirmative commercial quantities de- termination. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION H.R. 1820 resolves a decades-old Department of the Interior stat- utory obligation to the Navajo Nation stemming from provisions of the Navajo and Hopi Settlement Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-531). This Act brought resolution to a boundary dispute between the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe. In the settlement, the Navajo Nation lost acreage from their reservation to the Hopi Tribe, and many Navajo citizens were relocated. In return, the Navajo Nation was allowed to select comparable acreage on federal lands to be taken into trust for the Navajo Nation. By the early 1980s the Navajo Nation selected the federal lands they wanted to be taken into trust; however, some of the parcels 59-006

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