Reading Room Document
Whether the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation is an independent entity within the Executive Branch rather than a constituent part of the Department of the Interior
In this brief memo, the OLC determined that the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation––an agency created to relocate Navajo and Hopi people after Congress enacted the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974, dividing their lands––is an independent entity within the Executive Branch rather than a constituent part of the Department of the Interior.
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