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Legislation
Dozens of statutes affect land use planning and should be taken into consideration when either developing an overarching land use policy, or approaching a particular transaction.


 * 1) American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978
 * 2) Antiquities Act, 16 U.S.C. 1131
 * 3) Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979
 * 4) Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976
 * 5) Federal Land Transfer Facilitation Act of 2000; Title II of PL 106-248
 * 6) Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949
 * 7) Mineral Leasing Act of 1920
 * 8) National Environmental Protection Act of 1969
 * 9) National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, 16 U.S.C. 470.
 * 10) Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990
 * 11) Recreation and Public Purpose Act, 43 U.S.C. 869.
 * 12) Taylor Grazing Act of 1934
 * 13) Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, 16 U.S.C. 1271.
 * 14) Wilderness Act, 16 U.S.C. 1131, et seq.

Other legislative acts that are critical to land management offices include


 * 1) American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994
 * 2) Indian Land Consolidation Act of 1983 with Amendments of 2000
 * 3) Indian Mineral Development Act of 1982
 * 4) Indian Self-Determination & Education Assistance Act of 1975
 * 5) Native American Housing Assistance & Self-Determination Act of 1996
 * 6) Tribal Self Governance Act of 1994

Congressional Research Service
The Congressional Research Service (CRS), with a staff of 705 full-time equivalents and Congressional appropriations of $100,786,000 available for expenditure, provides "policy and legal analysis to committees and Members of both the House and Senate." In 2007 CRS addressed matters relating to the descendants of the Cherokee Freedmen, criminal and civil jurisdiction in Indian country, the  Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and "legislative precedents for limiting tribal rights in federal recognition legislation." While CRS research often results in a published report, these reports are not made directly available to the public. Several individuals and organizations have endeavored to provide access to CRS reports that have been released through various channels. Some archives are of general interest while others have a narrower focus (e.g., intellectual property or national security).


 * Website of OpenCRS.com, which offers free access to many CRS reports
 * University of North Texas Libraries Congressional Research Service Reports archive
 * Center for Democracy and Technology's Open CRS archive
 * Federation of American Scientists Congressional Research Service Reports archive
 * Franklin Pierce Law Center CRS Reports archive
 * United States Department of State Foreign Press Center CRS Reports archive
 * University of Maryland School of Law, Thurgood Marshall Law Library CRS Reports archive

Government Resources
U.S. Department of the Interior

A "one-stop clearinghouse for Indian trust management information," the Department of the Interior's Indian Trust page provides links to the Office of Historical Trust Accounting, news releases and quarterly reports to the Court on Indian Trust Reform.

Currently the U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Hearings and Appeals does not operate its own website. Nevertheless, decisions of the Interior Board of Indian Appeals (IBIA), Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA) and Indian Self-Determination Act Decisions have been made public as well as three invaluable surveys of IBIA decisions governing


 * Land Acquisition,
 * Probate, and
 * Tribal Government.

GSA


 * 1) A Guide to Buying Federal Real Estate
 * 2) Acquiring Federal Real Estate for Public Purposes
 * 3) Customer Guide to Real Property Disposal

National Atlas

The National Atlas of the United States provides interactive and customizable mapping. Organized by information layers, overlapping data sets include


 * Political boundaries (states, counties, municipalities)
 * Agricultural (crops, livestock, farm land)
 * Biological (distribution data for flora and fauna)
 * Boundaries (Congressional districts, Federal lands, Indian Lands)
 * Climate (hazardous events, sea surface temperatures)
 * Environment (Superfund sites, Toxics Release Inventory, water discharge permits)
 * Geology (coal fields, earthquakes, mineral operations)
 * History (electoral and popular votes, territorial acquisitions)
 * People (crime, economy, health)
 * Transportation (airports, railroads, roads)
 * Water (aquifers, watersheds)

Research Guides
Imre Sutton's American Indian Territoriality is an online research guide that has gathered together books, articles, documents, maps and other materials pertinent to Indian land tenure. The research guide is also available as one document and two updates have been made since 2003.