Title: Desert Sage Youth Wellness Center Access Improvement Act
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.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 144 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 144

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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 1, 2021

 Mrs. Feinstein (for herself and Mr. Padilla) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
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.

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