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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1077 
To modify the boundary of the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 25, 2015 
Mrs. KIRKPATRICK (for herself, Mr. GRIJALVA, and Mr. GALLEGO) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To modify the boundary of the Casa Grande Ruins National 
Monument, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Casa Grande Ruins 
National Monument Boundary Modification Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Casa Grande Ruin Reservation was set 
aside on March 2, 1889, proclaimed as the Nation’s 
first archeological preserve on June 22, 1892, and 
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redesignated as Casa Grande Ruins National Monu-
ment on August 3, 1918. 
(2) Casa Grande Ruins National Monument 
protects one of the finest architectural examples of 
13th Century Hohokam culture in the American 
Southwest known to early Spanish explorers as the 
‘‘Great House’’. 
(3) Casa Grande is only part of the story of 
this ancient town that may have covered 2 square 
miles. 
(4) Recent surveys and research have deter-
mined that the area of the Great House and the vil-
lage surrounding it extends beyond the current 
monument boundary. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) MAP.—The term ‘‘map’’ means the map en-
titled ‘‘Proposed Casa Grande Ruins Boundary 
Modification’’, numbered 300–120,734, and dated 
May 2013. 
(2) 
MONUMENT.—The 
term 
‘‘Monument’’ 
means the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument 
in the State of Arizona. 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
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(4) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the State 
of Arizona. 
SEC. 4. ACQUISITION AND TRANSFER OF ADMINISTRATIVE 
JURISDICTION OF LANDS. 
(a) ACQUISITION OF LANDS.—The Secretary is au-
thorized to acquire by donation, exchange, or purchase 
with donated or appropriate funds from willing owners 
only, the private or State lands or interests in lands gen-
erally depicted on the map, to be administered as part of 
the Monument. 
(b) TRANSFER OF ADMINISTRATIVE JURISDICTION 
TO THE NPS.—The following Federal lands as generally 
depicted on the map are hereby withdrawn from all forms 
of entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land 
laws; location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; 
and operation of the mineral leasing and geothermal leas-
ing laws and mineral materials laws, and administrative 
jurisdiction of such Federal lands is hereby transferred to 
the National Park Service to be administered as part of 
the Monument: 
(1) The approximately 3.8 acres of Federal 
land administered by the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment. 
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(2) The approximately 7.41 acres of Federal 
land of administered by the Bureau of Indian Af-
fairs. 
(c) TRANSFER OF ADMINISTRATIVE JURISDICTION 
TO BIA.—Administrative jurisdiction of the approximately 
3.5 acres of Federal land administered by the National 
Park Service as generally depicted on the map as ‘‘Lands 
to be Transferred to BIA’’ are hereby transferred to the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs for the purposes of the San Car-
los Irrigation Project. 
(d) ADMINISTRATION.—Upon acquisition or transfer 
of the lands identified in subsections (a) and (b), the Sec-
retary shall administer those lands as part of the Monu-
ment in accordance with the laws generally applicable to 
units of the National Park System, including applicable 
provisions of division A of subtitle I of title 54, United 
States Code. 
(e) BOUNDARY AND MAP UPDATE.— 
(1) TRANSFERS.—Upon completion of the 
transfers pursuant to subsection (b), the Secretary 
shall modify the boundary of the Monument accord-
ingly, and shall update the map to reflect such 
transfers. 
(2) ACQUISITIONS.—Upon completion of any of 
the acquisitions pursuant to subsection (a), the Sec-
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retary shall modify the boundary of the Monument 
accordingly, and shall update the map to reflect such 
acquisitions. 
(f) MAP ON FILE.—The map shall be on file and 
available for inspection in the appropriate offices of the 
National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. 
(g) COMPENSATION.—As consideration for the acqui-
sition of State and private lands or interests in lands, un-
less such lands and interests in lands are donated, the Sec-
retary shall— 
(1) pay fair market value for such lands; or 
(2) convey to the State of Arizona and private 
land owners, as the case may be, Federal lands, in-
terest in Federal land, or any other Federal asset of 
equal value located in the State of Arizona. 
SEC. 5. ADMINISTRATION OF STATE TRUST LANDS. 
The Secretary may enter into an agreement with the 
State to provide for cooperative management of the ap-
proximately 200 acres of State trust lands generally de-
picted on the map. 
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