H. R. 79

One Hundred Fifth Congress

of the

United States of America

AT THE FIRST SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,

the seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven

An Act

To provide for the conveyance of certain land in the Six Rivers National Forest

in the State of California for the benefit of the Hoopa Valley Tribe.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of

the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Hoopa Valley Reservation South

Boundary Adjustment Act’’.

SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF LANDS WITHIN SIX RIVERS NATIONAL FOREST

FOR HOOPA VALLEY TRIBE.

(a) TRANSFER.—All right, title, and interest in and to the lands

described in subsection (b) shall hereafter be administered by the

Secretary of the Interior and be held in trust by the United States

for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. The lands are hereby declared part

of the Hoopa Valley Reservation. Upon the inclusion of such lands

in the Hoopa Valley Reservation, Forest Service system roads numbered 8N03 and 7N51 and the Trinity River access road which

is a spur off road numbered 7N51, shall be Indian reservation

roads, as defined in section 101(a) of title 23 of the United States

Code.

(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 such 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 in the State of California is hereby adjusted to

exclude the lands to be held in trust for the benefit of the Hoopa

Valley Tribe pursuant to this section.

(d) 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 the lands described in subsection (b).
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(e) SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS.—The transfer of lands to trust

status under this section extinguishes the following claims by the

Hoopa Valley Tribe:

(1) All claims on land now administered as part of the

Six Rivers National Forest based on the allegation of error

in establishing the boundaries of the Hoopa Valley Reservation,

as those boundaries were configured before the date of the

enactment of this Act.

(2) All claims of failure to pay just compensation for a

taking under the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution, if such claims are based on activities, occurring before

the date of the enactment of this Act, related to the lands

transferred to trust status under this section.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.