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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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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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 descrip-
tion 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, 
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the East Half of Section 17, Township 86 North, 
Range 47 West of the Fifth Principal Meridian, 
Woodbury County, Iowa, lying Easterly of the Ne-
braska/Iowa State Line and Southerly of the Eas-
terly extension of the North line of the Winnebago 
Reservation. 
(2) Tract No. 210, as described in Schedule 
‘‘A’’ of the ‘‘Declaration of Taking, Legal Descrip-
tion 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 ‘‘Judg-
ment on Declaration of Taking and Legal Descrip-
tion of Tract 113’’, filed in the United States Dis-
trict Court for the District of Nebraska, Civ. No. 
03498. 
(c) GAMING PROHIBITION.—Class II and class III 
gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 
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U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) shall not be allowed at any time on 
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 
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 Ne-
braska, and for other purposes. 
JUNE 3, 2024 
Reported without amendment 
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