(6) none of the foregoing 3 tracts are to be used 
by the Tribe for gaming purposes; 
(7) certain parcels of lands adjacent to the 
Tuolumne Rancheria were taken into trust for the 
benefit of the Tribe; and 
(8) 2 parcels of fee lands owned by the Tribe and 
adjacent to the Tuolumne Rancheria, commonly re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Thomas and Coenenburg properties’’, 
have been approved and are pending transfer into 
trust status by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the 
benefit of the Tribe. 
SEC. 3. LANDS TO BE TAKEN INTO TRUST. 
(a) IN GENERAL.— 
(1) FEDERAL LANDS.—Subject to valid existing 
rights, all right, title, and interest (including im-
provements and appurtenances) of the United States 
in and to the Federal lands described in subsection 
(b), immediately after the Secretary of the Interior 
has confirmed that the National Environmental Pol-
icy Act of 1969 has been complied with regarding the 
trust acquisition of those Federal lands, the Federal 
lands shall be declared to be held in trust by the 
United States for the benefit of the Tribe for non-
gaming purposes, and shall be subject to the same 
terms and conditions as those lands described in the 
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California Indian Land Transfer Act of 2000 (title 
IX, Public Law 106–568; 114 Stat. 2868, 2921). 
(2) TRUST
LANDS.—Lands described in sub-
section (c) of this section that are taken or to be taken 
in trust by the United States for the benefit of the 
Tribe shall be subject to subsection (c) of section 903 
of the California Indian Land Transfer Act of 2000. 
(b) FEDERAL LANDS DESCRIBED.—The Federal lands 
described in this subsection, comprising approximately 66 
acres, are as follows: 
(1) Township 1 North, Range 16 East, Section 
6, Lots 10 and 12, MDM, containing 50.24 acres 
more or less. 
(2) Township 1 North, Range 16 East, Section 
5, Lot 16, MDM, containing 15.35 acres more or less. 
(3) Township 2 North, Range 16 East, Section 
32, Indian Cemetery Reservation within Lot 22, 
MDM, containing 0.4 acres more or less. 
(c) TRUST LANDS DESCRIBED.—The trust lands de-
scribed in this subsection, comprising approximately 357 
acres, are commonly referred to as follows: 
(1) Thomas property, pending trust acquisition, 
104.50 acres. 
(2) Coenenburg property, pending trust acquisi-
tion, 192.70 acres, subject to existing easements of 
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record, including but not limited to a non-exclusive 
easement for ingress and egress for the benefit of ad-
joining property as conveyed by Easement Deed re-
corded July 13, 1984, in Volume 755, Pages 189 to 
192, and as further defined by Stipulation and Judg-
ment entered by Tuolumne County Superior Court on 
September 2, 1983, and recorded June 4, 1984, in 
Volume 751, Pages 61 to 67. 
(3) Assessor Parcel No. 620505300, 1.5 acres, 
trust land. 
(4) Assessor Parcel No. 620505400, 19.23 acres, 
trust land. 
(5) Assessor Parcel No. 620505600, 3.46 acres, 
trust land. 
(6) Assessor Parcel No. 620505700, 7.44 acres, 
trust land. 
(7) Assessor Parcel No. 620401700, 0.8 acres, 
trust land. 
(8) A portion of Assessor Parcel No. 620500200, 
2.5 acres, trust land. 
(9) Assessor Parcel No. 620506200, 24.87 acres, 
trust land. 
(d) SURVEY.—As soon as practicable after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Office of Cadastral Survey 
of the Bureau of Land Management shall complete fieldwork 
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required for a survey of the lands described in subsections 
(b) and (c) for the purpose of incorporating those lands 
within the boundaries of the Tuolumne Rancheria. Not later 
than 90 days after that fieldwork is completed, that office 
shall complete the survey. 
(e) LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS.— 
(1) PUBLICATION.—On approval by the Commu-
nity Council of the Tribe of the survey completed 
under subsection (d), the Secretary of the Interior 
shall publish in the Federal Register— 
(A) a legal description of the new boundary 
lines of the Tuolumne Rancheria; and 
(B) a legal description of the land surveyed 
under subsection (d). 
(2) EFFECT.—Beginning on the date on which 
the legal descriptions are published under paragraph 
(1), such legal descriptions shall be the official legal 
descriptions of those boundary lines of the Tuolumne 
Rancheria and the lands surveyed. 
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Union Calendar No. 379 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3490 
[Report No. 110–609] 
A BILL 
To transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain 
Federal lands from the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to take 
such lands into trust for Tuolumne Band of Me- 
Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria, and 
for other purposes. 
APRIL 29, 2008 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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