SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Cocopah Lands Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The reservation of the Cocopah Tribe of Ari-
zona is located in Yuma County, Arizona. 
(2) That reservation was created by an Executive 
order signed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1917. 
(3) The Tribe’s land holdings are located within 
3 noncontiguous reservations comprising a total of 
approximately 6,226.3 acres of trust land. 
(4) The Tribe purchased the additional lands to 
provide infrastructure to housing areas, water, and 
economic development to tribal members. 
(5) The current trust land base of the reservation 
is insufficient to provide such needs. 
(6) The Tribe acquired 7 parcels of land contig-
uous to its present reservation lands in 1986, 1993, 
1997, and 2005, and these parcels are currently clas-
sified as ‘‘Tribal fee lands’’ under Federal law. 
(7) The acquired parcels shall not be taken into 
trust for gaming purposes. 
(8) The best means of solving the Tribe’s land 
and economic needs to its tribal members is to require 
the Secretary to take lands in Yuma County, Arizona, 
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that are acquired by the Tribe into trust for the Tribe 
subject to the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
For the purpose of this Act, the following definitions 
apply: 
(1) TRIBE.—The term ‘‘Tribe’’ means the 
Cocopah Tribe of Arizona. 
(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
SEC. 4. LANDS TO BE TAKEN INTO TRUST. 
(a) LANDS TO BE TAKEN INTO TRUST.—If the Tribe 
transfers title to the land described in subsection (b) to the 
Secretary, the Secretary shall take that land into trust for 
the benefit of the Tribe, if at the time of such transfer there 
are no recognized environmental conditions or contamina-
tion related concerns and no adverse legal claims to such 
land, including outstanding liens, mortgages, or taxes owed. 
(b) LAND DESCRIBED.—The land referred to in sub-
section (a) is described as follows: 
(1) PARCEL 1 (SIBLEY PURCHASE 1986).—Lot 4 
and the SW1⁄4 of the NW1⁄4, of Sec. 1, T. 10 S., R. 
25 W., of the Gila and Salt River Base and Meridian, 
Yuma County, Arizona, except that portion of the 
SW1⁄4 of the NW1⁄4, of said Sec. 1, T. 10 S., R. 25 
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W., lying southeasterly of the north right-of-way line 
of the Bureau of Reclamation levee. 
(2) PARCEL 2 (SIBLEY PURCHASE 1986).—Lot 1 
and the SE1⁄4 of the NE1⁄4, of Sec. 2, T. 10 S., R. 25 
W., of the Gila and Salt River Base and Meridian, 
Yuma County, Arizona. 
(3) PARCEL
(MCDANIEL
PURCHASE
1993).— 
That part of the E1⁄2 of the SE1⁄4, lying south of the 
East Main Bureau of Reclamation Canal right of 
way in Sec. 30, T. 9 S., R. 23 W., of the Gila and 
Salt River Base and Meridian, Yuma County, Ari-
zona. 
(4) PARCEL 4 (HOLLAND PURCHASE 1997).—That 
portion of the NW1⁄4 of the NE1⁄4, of Sec. 31, T. 16 
S., R 22 E., of the San Bernardino Base and Merid-
ian, Yuma County, Arizona, lying north of the levee 
and Salinity Canal; except the north 220 feet. 
(5) PARCEL 5 (HOLLAND PURCHASE 1997).—An 
easement over the easterly 15 feet of the north 220 feet 
of that portion of the NW1⁄4 of the NE1⁄4, of Sec. 31, 
T. 16 S., R. 22 E., of the San Bernardino Base and 
Meridian, Yuma County, Arizona, lying north of the 
levee and Salinity Canal for irrigation purposes. 
(6) PARCEL 6 (POWERS PURCHASE 1997).—Lots 
21, 24, and 25, Sec. 29, and Lots 16 and 17 and the 
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N1⁄2 of the SW1⁄4 of the SE1⁄4, of Sec. 30, T. 16 S., 
R. 22 E., of the San Bernardino Meridian, Yuma 
County, Arizona, according to the dependent resurvey 
of the Bureau of Land Management, accepted Decem-
ber 9, 1960. 
(7) PARCEL 7 (SPEED WAY PURCHASE 2005).— 
That portion of the W1⁄2 of the SE1⁄4 of Sec. 30, 
T. 9 S., R. 23 W., of the Gila and Salt River Base 
and Meridian, Yuma County, Arizona, lying south 
and east of the East Main Canal; except the south 33 
feet thereof; except one-third interest in and to all 
mineral rights, as reserved in the deed recorded in 
Docket 1461, page 600, records of Yuma County, Ari-
zona. 
(c) LANDS TO BE MADE PART OF THE RESERVA-
TION.—Land taken into trust pursuant to subsection (a) 
shall be considered to be part of the Tribe’s initial reserva-
tion. 
(d) SERVICE AREA.—For the purposes of the delivery 
of Federal services to enrolled members of the Tribe, the 
Tribe’s service area shall be Yuma County, Arizona. 
(e) GAMING PROHIBITED.—Land taken into trust for 
the benefit of the Tribe under this Act shall not be used 
for gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. 
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A bill to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to take lands in Yuma County, 
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Arizona, into trust as part of the reservation of the 
Cocopah Tribe of Arizona, and for other purposes.’’. 
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