The Crow Revenue Act transfers approximately 5,600 acres of mineral and surface rights to the Crow Tribe of Montana, consisting of the Bull Mountains Tracts (federal land in Musselshell County) and the Hope Family Tracts (privately-owned land within the Crow Reservation in Big Horn County). The federal government will convey the Bull Mountains mineral interests to the Hope Family Trust in exchange for that trust conveying its mineral interests in the Hope Family Tracts to the Crow Tribe, with the transfer to be completed within 60 days of the bill's enactment. The mineral interests transferred to the Crow Tribe will be held in federal trust and exempted from state taxation, allowing the tribe to develop and generate revenue from these resources. The bill requires the Crow Tribe and Hope Family Trust to establish a revenue-sharing formula if the Hope Family mineral interests are developed in the future, and it ensures that these new assets do not reduce any existing federal services or benefits the tribe currently receives.
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