[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 25, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 25CFR151.3]

[Page 394-395]
 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
     CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 151_LAND ACQUISITIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 151.3  Land acquisition policy.

    Land not held in trust or restricted status may only be acquired for 
an individual Indian or a tribe in trust status when such acquisition is 
authorized by an act of Congress. No acquisition of land in trust 
status, including a transfer of land already held in trust or restricted 
status, shall be valid unless the acquisition is approved by the 
Secretary.
    (a) Subject to the provisions contained in the acts of Congress 
which authorize land acquisitions, land may be acquired for a tribe in 
trust status:
    (1) When the property is located within the exterior boundaries of 
the tribe's reservation or adjacent thereto, or within a tribal 
consolidation area; or
    (2) When the tribe already owns an interest in the land; or
    (3) When the Secretary determines that the acquisition of the land 
is necessary to facilitate tribal self-determination, economic 
development, or Indian housing.
    (b) Subject to the provisions contained in the acts of Congress 
which authorize land acquisitions or holding

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land in trust or restricted status, land may be acquired for an 
individual Indian in trust status:
    (1) When the land is located within the exterior boundaries of an 
Indian reservation, or adjacent thereto; or
    (2) When the land is already in trust or restricted status.