Edgar Rundle v. Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior

This is a companion case to Hinton et al. v. Udall, 124 U.S.App.D.C. 283, 364 F.2d 676 (1966), in which this court held that an attack on an order of the Secretary of the Interior restoring ownership of all mineral, oil and gas resources in certain so-called mineral strip lands in Arizona to the San Carlo Apache Tribe of Indians was unripe for adjudication. The District Court in Hinton 1 had held that, assuming the justiciability of the issue presented, the Secretary had authority under Section 3 2 of the Indian Reorganization Act to withdraw from entry and to restore the subsurface rights in…