Winnebago Land Transfer Act of 2023

Subjects: Native Americans, Indian lands and resources rights, Iowa, Land transfers, Nebraska

Summary:  <p><b>Winnebago Land Transfer Act of 2023</b></p> This bill takes specified lands in Iowa into trust for the benefit of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. The land is made part of the tribe's reservation.

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1240 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1240

 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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 28, 2023

 Mr. Feenstra (for himself, Mr. Flood, Mr. Nunn of Iowa, Ms. Davids of 
Kansas, and Mr. Smith of Nebraska) introduced the following bill; which 
           was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 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.

    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 ``Winnebago Land Transfer Act of 
2023''.

SEC. 2. LAND TO BE TAKEN INTO TRUST.

    (a) In General.--Subject to all valid existing rights, all right, 
title, and interest (including improvements and appurtenances) of the 
United States in and to the Federal lands described in subsection (b), 
those Federal lands--
            (1) are declared to be part of the Winnebago Reservation 
        created by the Treaty between the United States and the 
        Winnebago Tribe in 1865; and
            (2) shall be held in trust by the United States for the 
        benefit of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska subject to the same 
        terms and conditions as those lands described in the Treaty 
        with the Winnebago Tribe, 1865 (14 Stat. 671).
    (b) Federal Lands Described.--The Federal lands described in this 
subsection are the following:
            (1) That portion of Tract No. 119, the description of which 
        is filed in the United States District Court for the Northern 
        District of Iowa (Western Division), Civil Case No. 70-C-3015-
        W, executed May 11, 1973, said tract being situated in Section 
        8 and the accretion land thereto, the Southwest Quarter of 
        Section 9, the West Half of Section 16, the East Half of 
        Section 17, Township 86 North, Range 47 West of the Fifth 
        Principal Meridian, Woodbury County, Iowa, lying Easterly of 
        the Nebraska/Iowa State Line and Southerly of the Easterly 
        extension of the North line of the Winnebago Reservation.
            (2) Tract No. 210, as described in Schedule ``A'' of the 
        ``Declaration of Taking, Legal Description of Tract 210 and 
        Judgment on Stipulation and Order of Distribution'', filed in 
        the United States District Court for the Northern District of 
        Iowa (Western Division), Civil Case No. 70-C-3015-W.
            (3) Tract No. 113, as described in the ``Judgment on 
        Declaration of Taking and Legal Description of Tract 113'', 
        filed in the United States District Court for the District of 
        Nebraska, Civ. No. 03498.
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