The council, in any negotiations for the purchase of tribal allocations of rights to harvest, if any, however they may exist, may, with the secretary, seek federal or other funds as may be available to match the council funds for the purchase of allocation rights to harvest in recognition of the federal government’s responsibility to the Indian people and their resources.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 307, Sec. 41. (AB 958) Effective January 1, 2016.)