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Calendar No. 411 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 1240 

[Report No. 118–180] 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 6, 2024 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs 

JUNE 3, 2024 

Reported by Mr. SCHATZ, without amendment 

AN ACT 

To transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal 

lands from the Army Corps of Engineers to the Bureau 

of Indian Affairs, to take such lands into trust for the 

Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Winnebago Land 

3 Transfer Act of 2023’’. 

4 SEC. 2. LAND TO BE TAKEN INTO TRUST. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to all valid existing rights, 

6 all right, title, and interest (including improvements and 

7 appurtenances) of the United States in and to the Federal 

8 lands described in subsection (b), those Federal lands— 

9 (1) are declared to be part of the Winnebago 

10 Reservation created by the Treaty between the 

11 United States and the Winnebago Tribe in 1865; 

12 and 

13 (2) shall be held in trust by the United States 

14 for the benefit of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska 

15 subject to the same terms and conditions as those 

16 lands described in the Treaty with the Winnebago 

17 Tribe, 1865 (14 Stat. 671). 

18 (b) FEDERAL LANDS DESCRIBED.—The Federal 

19 lands described in this subsection are the following: 

20 (1) That portion of Tract No. 119, the descrip21 tion of which is filed in the United States District 

22 Court for the Northern District of Iowa (Western 

23 Division), Civil Case No. 70–C–3015–W, executed 

24 May 11, 1973, said tract being situated in Section 

25 8 and the accretion land thereto, the Southwest 

26 Quarter of Section 9, the West Half of Section 16, 


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1 the East Half of Section 17, Township 86 North, 

2 Range 47 West of the Fifth Principal Meridian, 

3 Woodbury County, Iowa, lying Easterly of the Ne4 braska/Iowa State Line and Southerly of the Eas5 terly extension of the North line of the Winnebago 

6 Reservation. 

7 (2) Tract No. 210, as described in Schedule 

8 ‘‘A’’ of the ‘‘Declaration of Taking, Legal Descrip9 tion of Tract 210 and Judgment on Stipulation and 

10 Order of Distribution’’, filed in the United States 

11 District Court for the Northern District of Iowa 

12 (Western Division), Civil Case No. 70–C–3015–W. 

13 (3) Tract No. 113, as described in the ‘‘Judg14 ment on Declaration of Taking and Legal Descrip15 tion of Tract 113’’, filed in the United States Dis16 trict Court for the District of Nebraska, Civ. No. 

17 03498. 

18 (c) GAMING PROHIBITION.—Class II and class III 

19 gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 


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1 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) shall not be allowed at any time on 

2 the land taken into trust under subsection (a). 


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Calendar No. 411 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 1240 

[Report No. 118–180] 

AN ACT 

To transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain 

braska, and for other purposes. lands into trust for the Winnebago Tribe of Neto the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to take such Federal lands from the Army Corps of Engineers 

JUNE 3, 2024 

Reported without amendment 


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