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[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2710 Reported in House (RH)]

                                                 House Calendar No. 407

104th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 2710

                          [Report No. 104-762]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

     To provide for the conveyance of certain land in the State of 
                 California to the Hoopa Valley Tribe.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           September 4, 1996

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed

                                                 Union Calendar No. 407
104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 2710

                          [Report No. 104-762]

     To provide for the conveyance of certain land in the State of 
                 California to the Hoopa Valley Tribe.

_______________________________________________________________________

                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 5, 1995

  Mr. Riggs introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

                           September 4, 1996

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
     To provide for the conveyance of certain land in the State of 
                 California to the Hoopa Valley Tribe.

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

<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    This Act may be cited as the ``Hoopa Valley Reservation 
South Boundary Correction Act''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 2. LAND TRANSFER TO RESERVATION.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    (a) In General.--All right, title, and interest of the 
United States in and to the lands described in subsection (b) shall 
hereafter be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the 
Hoopa Valley Tribe and shall be part of the Hoopa Valley 
Reservation.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Lands Described.--The lands referred to in subsection 
(a) are those portions of Townships 7 North and 8 North, Ranges 5 East 
and 6 East, Humboldt Meridian, California, within a boundary beginning 
at a point on the current south boundary of the Hoopa Valley Indian 
Reservation, marked and identified as ``Post H.V.R. No. 8'' on the Plat 
of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation prepared from a field survey 
conducted by C.T. Bissel, Augustus T. Smith and C.A. Robinson, Deputy 
Surveyors, approved by the Surveyor General, H. Pratt, March 18, 1892, 
and extending from said point on a bearing of north 72 degrees 30 
minutes east, until intersecting with a line beginning at a point 
marked as ``Post H.V.R. No. 3'' on said survey and extending on a 
bearing of south 15 degrees 59 minutes east, comprising 2,641 acres 
more or less.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 3. SURVEY.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau 
of Land Management, shall survey and monument that portion of the 
boundary of the Hoopa Valley Reservation established by the addition of 
lands made by section 2.</DELETED>

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Hoopa Valley Reservation South 
Boundary Adjustment Act''.

SEC. 2. LAND TRANSFER TO RESERVATION.

    (a) In General.--All right, title, and interest of the United 
States in and to the lands described in subsection (b) shall hereafter 
be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Hoopa 
Valley Tribe and shall be part of the Hoopa Valley Reservation.
    (b) Lands Described.--The lands referred to in subsection (a) are 
those portions of Townships 7 North and 8 North, Ranges 5 East and 6 
East, Humboldt Meridian, California, within a boundary beginning at a 
point on the current south boundary of the Hoopa Valley Indian 
Reservation, marked and identified as ``Post H.V.R. No. 8'' on the Plat 
of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation prepared from a field survey 
conducted by C.T. Bissel, Augustus T. Smith and C.A. Robinson, Deputy 
Surveyors, approved by the Surveyor General, H. Pratt, March 18, 1892, 
and extending from said point on a bearing of north 72 degrees 30 
minutes east, until intersecting with a line beginning at a point 
marked as ``Post H.V.R. No. 3'' on said survey and extending on a 
bearing of south 15 degrees 59 minutes east, comprising 2,641 acres 
more or less.
    (c) Boundary Adjustment.--The boundary of the Six Rivers National 
Forest shall be adjusted to exclude the lands to be held in trust for 
the benefit of the Hoopa Valley Tribe pursuant to this section.

SEC. 3. SURVEY.

    The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land 
Management, shall survey and monument that portion of the boundary of 
the Hoopa Valley Reservation established by the addition of lands made 
by section 2.
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