[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 25, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 25CFR151.20]

[Page 433]
 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
     CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 151--ACQUISITION OF TITLE TO LAND IN TRUST--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart E--Tribal Land Acquisition Areas
 
Sec. 151.20  How is a tribal request for Secretarial approval processed?

    When we receive a request for Secretarial approval of a TLAA, we 
will review the supporting documentation to determine if the request 
meets the requirements of this part. If the request is complete, we 
will:
    (a) Provide notice of the request for Secretarial approval to the 
Governor's Office, to appropriate local government officials, and to 
appropriate officials of tribes located within a 50-mile radius of the 
boundaries of the proposed TLAA. Recipients of the notice will be 
provided 60 days from the date of receipt in which to comment on the 
proposed TLAA and the request supporting it. Other interested parties 
may also submit comments during the 60-day consultation period.
    (b) After the close of the comment period, based on the criteria 
described in Sec. 151.21, we will decide whether to approve the TLAA. 
Our decision on whether to approve the TLAA will be communicated in the 
form of a certified letter to the applicant. We also will provide notice 
of our decision to interested parties by sending a copy of the decision 
letter to everyone (including State and local governments) who sent us 
written comments on the request for approval.
    (c) If we decide not to approve the TLAA, we will take no further 
action.
    (d) If we decide to approve the TLAA, we will:
    (1) Publish in the Federal Register, or in a newspaper of general 
circulation serving the affected area, a notice of the decision to 
approve the TLAA; and
    (2) Thereafter, for a period of 25 years, review requests to accept 
trust title land located within the TLAA as ``on-reservation'' 
acquisitions under the applicable on-reservation provisions in this 
part.