Crow Revenue Act

The Crow Revenue Act mandates a specific exchange of mineral and surface interests involving the Crow Tribe of Montana , the Hope Family Trust , and the United States. This legislation aims to place certain mineral interests into federal trust for the benefit of the Crow Tribe, while also facilitating a transfer of other lands. The entire transaction is designed to occur within 60 days of the Act's enactment. Under the Act, the Hope Family Trust is required to convey its mineral interests, known as the Hope Family Tracts (approximately 4,660 acres in Big Horn County, Montana), directly to the Crow Tribe. Simultaneously, the Secretary of the Interior will convey the United States' mineral and surface interests in the Bull Mountains Tracts (totaling about 4,530 subsurface and 940 surface acres in Musselshell County, Montana) to the Hope Family Trust. This latter conveyance is contingent upon the relinquishment of the existing Bull Mountains Lease by its current lessee. Upon the Crow Tribe's request, the mineral interests received from the Hope Family Trust will be held in trust by the United States for the Tribe's benefit. These trust lands will be explicitly exempt from state and local taxation. A critical prerequisite for these conveyances is that the Tribe must first notify the Secretary of a pre-existing agreement with the Hope Family Trust regarding the sharing of future revenues from the development of the Bull Mountains Tracts. Pending the completion of these conveyances, the tracts involved will be temporarily withdrawn from various public land laws, mining laws, and mineral leasing operations. Furthermore, the Act ensures that any benefits or amounts received by the Crow Tribe or its members under this legislation will not lead to a reduction or denial of any other federal services, benefits, or programs they are otherwise entitled to.