Desert Sage Youth Wellness Center Access Improvement Act
Bill: S.144 | Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne (D-CA)
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
Desert Sage Youth Wellness Center Access Improvement Act
This bill authorizes the Indian Health Service (IHS) to purchase certain private land in Hemet, California, at fair market value and then construct a paved road on that land to facilitate access to the Desert Sage Youth Wellness Center. The IHS shall maintain the road or enter an agreement with Riverside County, California, to maintain the road.

[117th Congress Public Law 161]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 117-161
117th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through 
 the Director of the Indian Health Service, to acquire private land to 
  facilitate access to the Desert Sage Youth Wellness Center in Hemet, 
California, and for other purposes. <<NOTE: July 29, 2022 -  [S. 144]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Desert Sage 
Youth Wellness Center Access Improvement Act.>> 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Desert Sage Youth Wellness Center 
Access Improvement Act''.
SEC. 2. ACCESS ROAD FOR DESERT SAGE YOUTH WELLNESS CENTER.

    (a) Acquisition of Land.--
            (1) Authorization.--The Secretary of Health and Human 
        Services, acting through the Director of the Indian Health 
        Service, is authorized to acquire, from willing sellers, the 
        land in Hemet, California, upon which is located a dirt road 
        known as ``Best Road'', beginning at the driveway of the Desert 
        Sage Youth Wellness Center at Faure Road and extending to the 
        junction of Best Road and Sage Road.
            (2) Compensation.--The Secretary shall pay fair market value 
        for the land authorized to be acquired under paragraph (1). Fair 
        market value <<NOTE: Determination.>>  shall be determined--
                    (A) using Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal 
                Land Acquisitions; and
                    (B) by an appraiser acceptable to the Secretary and 
                the owners of the land to be acquired.
            (3) Additional rights.--In addition to the land referred to 
        in paragraph (1), the Secretary is authorized to acquire, from 
        willing sellers, land or interests in land as reasonably 
        necessary to construct and maintain the road as required by 
        subsection (b).

    (b) Construction and Maintenance of Road.--
            (1) Construction.--After the Secretary acquires the land 
        pursuant to subsection (a), the Secretary shall construct on 
        that land a paved road that is generally located over Best Road 
        to facilitate access to the Desert Sage Youth Wellness Center in 
        Hemet, California.
            (2) Maintenance.--The Secretary shall--
                    (A) maintain and manage the road constructed 
                pursuant to paragraph (1); or

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                    (B) <<NOTE: Contracts.>>  enter into an agreement 
                with Riverside County, California, to own, maintain and 
                manage the road constructed pursuant to paragraph (1).

    Approved July 29, 2022.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 144:
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SENATE REPORTS: No. 117-5 (Comm. on Indian Affairs).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
                                                        Vol. 167 (2021):
                                    May 26, considered and passed 
                                        Senate.
                                                        Vol. 168 (2022):
                                    July 18, 19, considered and passed 
                                        House.

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