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 num-
bered 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 bound-
ary 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 Con-
stitution, 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.