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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7581 
To recognize tribal cooperation in the environmental review of proposed 
actions affecting the revised Yurok Reservation, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 26, 2022 
Mr. HUFFMAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To recognize tribal cooperation in the environmental review 
of proposed actions affecting the revised Yurok Reserva-
tion, 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 ‘‘Yurok Lands Act of 
2022’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
For the purposes of this Act: 
(1) FEDERAL
AGENCY.—The term ‘‘Federal 
agency’’ has the same meaning given that term in 
section 1508.12 of title 40, Code of Federal Regula-
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tions, except that such term shall not include States, 
units of general local government, and Indian 
Tribes. 
(2) NEPA.—The term ‘‘NEPA’’ means the Na-
tional Environmental Policy Act, as amended (42 
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). 
(3) REVISED YUROK RESERVATION.—The term 
‘‘revised Yurok Reservation’’ means the land within 
the exterior boundary of the Yurok Reservation as 
revised in section 4(a), except land owned in fee by 
or held in trust by the United States for the benefit 
of a federally recognized Indian Tribe other than the 
Yurok Tribe. 
(4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agri-
culture, or the Secretary of Transportation, as ap-
propriate. 
(5) TRIBE.—The term ‘‘Tribe’’ means the 
Yurok Tribe, a federally recognized Indian Tribe. 
SEC. 3. LAND TO BE HELD IN TRUST FOR THE TRIBE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to any valid existing 
rights, the Secretary of Agriculture shall transfer to the 
Secretary of the Interior administrative jurisdiction over 
approximately 1,229 acres in the Yurok Experimental 
Forest and Six Rivers National Forest, as generally de-
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picted on the map entitled ‘‘Experimental Forest’’ and 
dated October 4, 2016. The map shall be on file and avail-
able for public inspection in the appropriate offices of the 
Forest Service. 
(b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary of the Interior 
shall hold the land transferred under subsection (a) in 
trust for the benefit of the Tribe. 
(c) TRIBAL LAND USE MANAGEMENT PLAN.—The 
Tribe shall develop a Tribal Land Use Management Plan 
in accordance with NEPA requirements for the land held 
in trust pursuant to subsection (b). 
(d) 
GOVERNMENT-TO-GOVERNMENT
AGREE-
MENTS.—Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture and 
the Tribe— 
(1) shall enter into government-to-government 
consultations; 
(2) shall develop protocols to ensure that re-
search activities of the Forest Service on lands taken 
into trust pursuant to subsection (b) shall continue 
in perpetuity; and 
(3) may enter into cooperative agreements be-
tween the Secretary of Agriculture and the Tribe for 
the purpose of implementing this section. 
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(e) SURVEY.—Not later than one year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior 
shall complete a survey to establish the exterior bound-
aries of the land taken into trust pursuant to subsection 
(b). 
(f) USE OF TRUST LAND.—Land taken into trust 
pursuant to subsection (b) shall— 
(1) be managed by the Tribe for conservation 
and research purposes; 
(2) not be eligible, or considered to have been 
taken into trust, for any gaming activity under the 
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et 
seq.); and 
(3) not be subject to old growth logging. 
SEC. 4. YUROK RESERVATION BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall revise the 
boundary of the Yurok Reservation as depicted on the map 
entitled ‘‘Proposed Yurok Reservation Boundary’’ and 
dated March 30, 2022. The map shall be on file and avail-
able for public inspection at the Office of the Regional 
Forester, Pacific Southwest Region, Vallejo, California, 
and other appropriate offices of the Forest Service. 
(b) LAND MANAGEMENT.—Subject to the require-
ments of sections 3 and 5— 
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ment between the Department of the Interior and 
the Yurok Tribe for the Cooperative Management of 
Tribal and Federal Lands and Resources in the 
Klamath River Basin of California’’ is confirmed 
and the Secretary is authorized to take such actions 
as are necessary to effectuate the agreement. 
(f) 
SELF-GOVERNANCE
AGREEMENTS.—Federal 
agencies, as appropriate, shall negotiate, in good faith, 
self-governance agreements under this Act pursuant to the 
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act 
(25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.). Program functions, services, and 
activities, or portions thereof, carried out by the National 
Park Service on Federal land within the revised Yurok 
Reservation shall be included in a contract or compact to 
the extent allowed under title I or title IV of the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. 
SEC. 6. YUROK SCENIC BYWAY DESIGNATION. 
(a) DESIGNATION OF THE YUROK SCENIC BYWAY.— 
Bald Hills Road from its junction with U.S. Highway 101 
to its terminus on the Klamath River shall be designated 
as the ‘‘Yurok Scenic Byway’’, an Indian Tribe scenic 
byway, and the Tribe shall be eligible for appropriate 
grants and technical assistance as authorized in section 
162(b) of title 23, United States Code. 
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(b) CONTINUED ACCESS AND USE RETAINED.—The 
Tribe shall not prohibit or limit, and the Secretary of the 
Interior shall allow, continued access and use of the Bald 
Hills Road in accordance with section 3(b)(1) of the Act 
entitled ‘‘An Act to establish a Redwood National Park 
in the State of California, and for other purposes’’, ap-
proved October 2, 1968 (16 U.S.C. 79c). 
SEC. 7. CONFIRMATION OF GOVERNING BODY AND DOCU-
MENTS. 
The governing documents of the Tribe and the gov-
erning body established and elected thereunder, as recog-
nized by the Secretary and in effect on the date of the 
enactment of this Act, are hereby ratified and confirmed 
and shall only have effect within the revised Yurok Res-
ervation. 
SEC. 8. NO DELEGATION OF FEDERAL AUTHORITY OVER 
NON-TRIBAL LAND OR PEOPLE. 
Nothing in this Act shall be construed as a delegation 
of Federal or other authority to the Tribe, the Tribal body 
or any member of the Tribe, over or related to land or 
interests in land that are not within the revised Yurok 
Reservation. 
SEC. 9. NO ADDITIONAL AUTHORITY OR RIGHTS. 
Nothing in this Act shall increase, diminish, or other-
wise affect the rights, privileges, or authorities of any fed-
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erally recognized Indian Tribe in relation to any other fed-
erally recognized Indian Tribe. 
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