Administration of Indian Programs by the Environmental Protection Agency: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, First Session ... June 23, 1989

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Page 417 - ... governmental instrumentality or agency to the extent permitted by the eleventh amendment to the Constitution) who is alleged to be in violation of...
Page 417 - The district courts shall have jurisdiction, without regard to the amount in controversy or the citizenship of the parties...
Page 455 - Government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent, and, including rights-of-way running through the reservation, (b) all dependent Indian communities within the borders of the United States whether within the original or subsequently acquired territory thereof, and whether within or without the limits of a state, and (c) all Indian allotments, the Indian titles to which have not been extinguished, including rights-of-way running through the same.
Page 313 - A tribe may also retain inherent power to exercise civil authority over the conduct of non-Indians on fee lands within its reservation when that conduct threatens or has some direct effect on the political Integrity, the economic security, or the health or welfare of the tribe.
Page 455 - Except as otherwise provided in sections 1154 and 1156 of this title, the term "Indian country," as used in this chapter, means (a) all land within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States Government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent...
Page 417 - Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection any person may commence a civil suit on his own behalf to enjoin any person, including the United States and any other governmental instrumentality or agency...
Page 123 - F, first-filial generation FAO Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations FDA Food and Drug Administration FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency FIFRA Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act FPD flame photometric detection fpm feet per minute...
Page 206 - It is important to the concept of self-government that tribes reduce their dependence on federal funds by providing a greater percentage of the cost of their self-government.
Page 301 - Indian nations as distinct political communities, having territorial boundaries, within which their authority is exclusive, and having a right to all the lands within those boundaries, which is not only acknowledged, but guaranteed by the United States.
Page 407 - ... shall be subject to, and comply with, all Federal, State, Interstate, and local requirements, both substantive and procedural...

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