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Calendar No. 699 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4032 
[Report No. 115–399] 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 18, 2018 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs 
NOVEMBER 29, 2018 
Reported by Mr. HOEVEN, without amendment 
AN ACT 
To confirm undocumented Federal rights-of-way or ease-
ments on the Gila River Indian Reservation, clarify the 
northern boundary of the Gila River Indian Community’s 
Reservation, to take certain land located in Maricopa 
County and Pinal County, Arizona, into trust for the 
benefit of the Gila River Indian Community, 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 ‘‘Gila River Indian Com-
munity Federal Rights-of-Way, Easements and Boundary 
Clarification Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSES. 
The purposes of this Act are to— 
(1) establish, ratify, document, and confirm the 
Federal electrical, irrigation, and road rights-of-way 
and easements that exist within the exterior bound-
aries of the Reservation as of the date of the enact-
ment of this Act; 
(2) establish a fixed location of the northern 
boundary of the Reservation and to provide for the 
Secretary of the Interior to ensure that the northern 
boundary is resurveyed and marked in conformance 
with the public system of surveys; 
(3) authorize and direct the Secretary to place 
certain lands into trust for the benefit of the Com-
munity; 
(4) substitute the benefits provided under this 
Act to the Community, its members and allottees for 
any claims that the Community, its members and 
allottees may have had in connection with alleged 
failures relating to the northern boundary of the 
Reservation and the documentation and manage-
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ment of Federal rights-of-way on the Reservation; 
and 
(5) authorize the funds necessary for the 
United States to meet the obligations under this 
Act. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ALLOTTEE.—The term ‘‘allottee’’ means a 
person who holds a beneficial real property interest 
in an Indian allotment that is— 
(A) located within the exterior boundaries 
of the Reservation; and 
(B) held in trust by the United States. 
(2) COMMUNITY.—The term ‘‘Community’’ 
means the Gila River Indian Community, a govern-
ment composed of members of the Pima Tribe and 
the Maricopa Tribe and organized under section 16 
of the Act of June 18, 1934 (25 U.S.C. 5123). 
(3) DISPUTED
AREA.—The term ‘‘Disputed 
Area’’ means the land north of the Harrington Sur-
vey line and south of the middle of the Salt River 
(as it currently flows). 
(4) EXECUTIVE ORDER.—The term ‘‘Executive 
Order’’ means the Executive order executed by 
President R.B. Hayes on June 14, 1879. 
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(5) FEDERAL
AND
TRIBAL
FACILITIES.—The 
term ‘‘Federal and Tribal Facilities’’ means any and 
all structures, improvements, and appurtenances as-
sociated with roadways, canals, power lines, and 
other projects constructed for the benefit of the 
Community and its members. Thus, ‘‘Federal and 
Tribal Facilities’’ refers to— 
(A) Indian Reservation Road (IRR) trans-
portation facilities, including public roads, 
bridges, drainage structures, culverts, ferry 
routes, marine terminals, transit facilities, 
boardwalks, pedestrian paths, trails, and their 
appurtenances, and other transportation facili-
ties, as designated by the Community and the 
Secretary and defined in section 170.5 of title 
25, Code of Federal Regulations; 
(B) Federal irrigation facilities included in 
the San Carlos Irrigation Project, the irrigation 
project authorized under the Act of June 7, 
1924 (43 Stat. 475), including all structures 
and appurtenant works within the San Carlos 
Irrigation Project for the delivery, diversion, 
and storage of irrigation water, as defined in 
section 171.100 of title 25, Code of Federal 
Regulations; and 
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