---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 835g"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "835g"
heading: "Relocation of Indian cemeteries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/835g"
units:
  - "Chapter 12D — Columbia Basin Project"
---

# §835g. Relocation of Indian cemeteries


As to any Indian cemetery lands required for the [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, in lieu of requiring payment therefor, to establish cemeteries on other lands that he may select and [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) for the purpose, and to remove bodies, markers, and other appurtenances to the new sites. All costs incurred in connection with any such relocation shall be paid from moneys appropriated for the [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4). All right, title, and interest of the Indians in the lands within any cemetery so relocated shall terminate and the grant of title under sections [835d](/usc/16/835d.md) to [835h](/usc/16/835h.md) of this title [take](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) effect as of the date the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior authorizes the relocation. Sites of the relocated cemeteries shall be held in [trust](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=4) by the United States for the Spokane or Colville Tribe, as the case may be, and shall be nontaxable.


## Source credit

(June 29, 1940, ch. 460, § 4, 54 Stat. 703.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.