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Union Calendar No. 407
104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2710
[Report No. 104–762]
To provide for the conveyance of certain land in the State of California
to the Hoopa Valley Tribe.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
DECEMBER 5, 1995
Mr. RIGGS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Resources
SEPTEMBER 4, 1996
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
A BILL
To provide for the conveyance of certain land in the State
of California to the Hoopa Valley Tribe.
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 ‘‘Hoopa Valley Reserva-
tion South Boundary Correction Act’’.
SEC. 2. LAND TRANSFER TO RESERVATION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—All right, title, and interest of the
United States in and to the lands described in subsection
(b) shall hereafter be held in trust by the United States
for the benefit of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and shall be part
of the Hoopa Valley Reservation.
(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,
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
said survey and extending on a bearing of south 15 de-
grees 59 minutes east, comprising 2,641 acres more or
less.
SEC. 3. SURVEY.
The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bu-
reau of Land Management, shall survey and monument
that portion of the boundary of the Hoopa Valley Reserva-
tion established by the addition of lands made by section
2.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Hoopa Valley Reserva-
tion South Boundary Adjustment Act’’.
SEC. 2. LAND TRANSFER TO RESERVATION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—All right, title, and interest of the
United States in and to the lands described in subsection
(b) shall hereafter be held in trust by the United States for
the benefit of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and shall be part of
the Hoopa Valley Reservation.
(b) LANDS DESCRIBED.—The lands referred to in sub-
section (a) are those portions of Townships 7 North and
8 North, Ranges 5 East and 6 East, Humboldt Meridian,
California, within a boundary beginning at a point on the
current south boundary of the Hoopa Valley Indian Res-
ervation, 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 ex-
tending 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 said 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 shall be adjusted to exclude the
lands to be held in trust for the benefit of the Hoopa Valley
Tribe pursuant to this section.
SEC. 3. SURVEY.
The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bu-
reau of Land Management, shall survey and monument
that portion of the boundary of the Hoopa Valley Reserva-
tion established by the addition of lands made by section
2.