Title: Winnebago Land Transfer Act of 2017
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
Winnebago Land Transfer Act of 2017

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3688 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3688

 To transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal lands from 
 the United States Army Corps of Engineers to the United States Bureau 
  of Indian Affairs, to take such lands into trust for the Winnebago 
                           Tribe of Nebraska.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 6, 2017

   Mr. King of Iowa (for himself and Mr. Fortenberry) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal lands from 
 the United States Army Corps of Engineers to the United States Bureau 
  of Indian Affairs, to take such lands into trust for the Winnebago 
                           Tribe of Nebraska.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Winnebago Land Transfer Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. LAND TO BE TAKEN INTO TRUST.

    (a) In General.--Subject to all valid existing rights, all right, 
title, and interest (including improvements and appurtenances) of the 
United States in and to the Federal lands described in subsection (b), 
the Federal lands are declared to be part of the Winnebago Reservation 
created by the Treaty between the United States and the Winnebago Tribe 
in 1865 and shall be held in trust by the United States for the benefit 
of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska subject to the same terms and 
conditions as those lands described in the Treaty with the Winnebago 
Tribe, 1865 (14 Stat. 671).
    (b) Federal Lands Described.--The Federal lands described in this 
subsection are as follows:
            (1) That portion of Tract No. 119, the description of which 
        is filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of 
        Iowa (Western Division), Civil Case No. 70-C-3015-W, executed 
        May 11, 1973, said tract being situated in Section 8 and the 
        accretion land thereto, the Southwest Quarter of Section 9, the 
        West Half of Section 16, the East Half of Section 17, Township 
        86 North, Range 47 West of the Fifth Principal Meridian, 
        Woodbury County, Iowa, lying Easterly of the Nebraska/Iowa 
        State Line and Southerly of the Eastern extension of the North 
        line of the Winnebago Reservation.
            (2) All of Tract 210, in Iowa, the description of which is 
        filed in a Federal condemnation action in U.S. District Court 
        for the Northern District of Iowa (Western Division), in Civil 
        Case No. 70-C-3015-W.
            (3) All of Tract 113, in Iowa, the description of which is 
        filed in a Federal condemnation action in U.S. District Court 
        for the State of Nebraska, in Civil Case No. 70-C-03498.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act shall be effective on the date it is enacted.
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