I 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5468 
To take certain Federal lands in Mono County, California, into trust for 
the benefit of the Bridgeport Indian Colony. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 28, 2010 
Mr. MCKEON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To take certain Federal lands in Mono County, California, 
into trust for the benefit of the Bridgeport Indian Colony. 
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 ‘‘Bridgeport Indian Col-
ony Land Trust, Health, and Economic Development Act 
of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Bridgeport Indian Colony is a federally 
recognized Indian tribe with a reservation located 
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near the town of Bridgeport, in Mono County, Cali-
fornia. 
(2) The Tribe’s reservation is approximately 40 
acres, and was established by Federal law in 1974. 
(3) The reservation lands are insufficient for 
the Tribe’s housing and community development 
needs. 
(4) The Tribe’s reservation is located approxi-
mately 0.24 miles from Highway 182. 
(5) Between the Tribe’s reservation and High-
way 182 is an undeveloped piece of Federal land, of 
which a 31.86 acre parcel would be suitable to be 
added to the reservation and held in trust by the 
United States for the benefit of the Tribe. 
(6) The expansion of the reservation will facili-
tate a much-needed expansion of the Tribe’s ability 
to provide housing for its membership, a community 
activity center, and tribal economic development. 
(7) Many tribal members have expressed inter-
est in moving back to the reservation if housing and 
job opportunities can be made available. 
(8) A large portion of the nongovernmental 
labor force and business in Mono County is seasonal 
in nature, and unemployment in Mono County is ap-
proximately 10 percent. 
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(9) Transfer of this parcel, to be held in trust 
for the Tribe, will expedite the creation of job oppor-
tunities in this rural community for both tribal 
members and the non-Indian community. 
(10) In addition to the need for expansion of 
the reservation, the Tribe has significant health 
needs that could be facilitated by a separate Federal 
parcel being held in trust by the United States for 
the benefit of the Tribe. 
(11) The Tribe is a member of the Toiyabe In-
dian Health Project, a nonprofit consortium of area 
Indian tribes which provides the Indian and non-In-
dian residents of the area with health care services, 
partially funded by the Indian Health Service. 
(12) The Toiyabe Indian Health Project oper-
ates other facilities in Bishop and Lone Pine, Cali-
fornia. 
(13) In the 1980s, the Tribe applied for and re-
ceived a Community Development Block Grant from 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
in order to build a healthcare facility in Mono Coun-
ty. 
(14) With Toiyabe Indian Health Project di-
recting the project, the Camp Antelope Health Clinic 
was built on a 7.16 acre parcel of Federal land one 
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