IIA
105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 79
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JUNE 4, 1997
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs
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 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 ‘‘Hoopa Valley Reserva-
tion South Boundary Adjustment Act’’.
SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF LANDS WITHIN SIX RIVERS NA-
TIONAL 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 Merid-
ian, 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, Au-
gustus T. Smith, and C.A. Robinson, Deputy Surveyors,
approved by the Surveyor General, H. Pratt, March 18,
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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 de-
grees 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).
(e) SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS.—The transfer of lands
to trust status under this section extinguishes the follow-
ing claims by the Hoopa Valley Tribe:
(1) All claims on land now administered as part
of the Six Rivers National Forest based on the alle-
gation 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.
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(2) All claims of failure to pay just compensa-
tion 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 enact-
ment of this Act, related to the lands transferred to
trust status under this section.
Passed the House of Representatives June 3, 1997.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.