Title: Katimiîn and Ameekyáaraam Sacred Lands Act
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
Katimiîn and Ameekyáaraam Sacred Lands Act
This bill takes approximately 1,031 acres of specified lands in Siskiyou and Humboldt Counties, California, into trust for the benefit of the Karuk Tribe. Land taken into trust shall be used only for traditional and customary uses for the benefit of the tribe.
Further, the bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6032 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6032

 To take certain Federal lands located in Siskiyou County, California, 
  and Humboldt County, California, into trust for the benefit of the 
                  Karuk Tribe, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 18, 2021

 Mr. Huffman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To take certain Federal lands located in Siskiyou County, California, 
  and Humboldt County, California, into trust for the benefit of the 
                  Karuk Tribe, 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 ``Katimiin and Ameekyaaraam Sacred 
Lands Act''.

SEC. 2. LAND HELD IN TRUST FOR THE KARUK TRIBE.

    (a) In General.--In recognition of the historical use and ongoing 
relationship between the Karuk Tribe and the Katimiin and Ameekyaaraam 
tracts of land in the ancestral territory of the Karuk Tribe, 
administrative jurisdiction of these tracts of land are hereby 
transferred from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the 
Interior and held in trust for the benefit of the Karuk Tribe, subject 
to valid existing rights.
    (b) Land Description.--The land taken into trust pursuant to 
subsection (a) is the approximately 1,031 acres of Federal land located 
in Siskiyou County, California, and Humboldt County, California, and 
generally depicted as ``Proposed Area'' on the map titled ``Katimiin 
AreaBoundary Proposal'' and dated 08-09-2021, including improvements 
and appurtenances thereto.
    (c) Survey.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall complete a 
survey of the land taken into trust under subsection (a).
    (d) Use of Land.--
            (1) In general.--Land taken into trust under subsection (a) 
        shall be used only for traditional and customary uses for the 
        benefit of the Karuk Tribe.
            (2) Gaming.--Class II and class III gaming under the Indian 
        Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) shall not be 
        allowed on the land taken into trust under subsection (a).
    (e) Wild and Scenic Rivers Management.--The fact that the land 
described in subsection (b) is held in trust for the benefit of the 
Karuk Tribe shall not affect the status or administration of any 
component of the national wild and scenic rivers system, including 
components located on such land.
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