A bill to amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act to make technical corrections, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-416
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2013-02-28
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations

Indian lands and resources rights

Land transfers

Oregon
Latest action: action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-02-28
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to accept title to any additional number of acres of real property located within the boundaries of the original 1857 reservation of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (comprising land within the political boundaries of Polk and Yamhill Counties, Oregon), if such real property is conveyed or otherwise transferred to the United States by or on behalf of the Tribe. </p> <p>States that: (1) the Secretary shall treat all applications to take land into trust within the boundaries of the original 1857 reservation as an on-reservation trust acquisition, and (2) all real property taken into trust within those boundaries after September 9, 1988, shall be part of the Tribe's reservation.</p>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 416 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 28, 2013 Mr. Merkley (for himself and Mr. Wyden ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs A BILL To amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act to make technical corrections, and for other purposes.

1. Establishment of reservation Section 1 of the Act entitled An Act to establish a reservation for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, and for other purposes, approved September 9, 1988 ( Public Law 100–425 ; 102 Stat. 1594; 102 Stat. 2939; 104 Stat. 207; 106 Stat. 3255; 108 Stat. 708; 108 Stat. 4566; 112 Stat. 1896), is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) by striking Subject to valid and inserting the following: (1) In general Subject to valid ; and (B) by adding after paragraph (1) (as designated by subparagraph (A)) the following: (2) Additional trust acquisitions (A) In general The Secretary may accept title to any additional number of acres of real property located within the boundaries of the original 1857 reservation of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon established by Executive order dated June 30, 1857, comprised of land within the political boundaries of Polk and Yamhill Counties, Oregon, if that real property is conveyed or otherwise transferred to the United States by or on behalf of the Tribe. (B) Treatment of trust land All applications to take land into trust within the boundaries of the original 1857 reservation shall be treated by the Secretary as an on-reservation trust acquisition. (C) Reservation All real property taken into trust within those boundaries at any time after September 9, 1988, shall be part of the reservation of the Tribe. ; and (2) in subsection (c)— (A) in the matter preceding the table, by striking in subsection (a) are approximately 10,311.60 and inserting in subsection (a)(1) are approximately 11,274.19 ; and (B) in the table— (i) by striking the following: 6 7 8 Tax lot 800 5.55 ; and inserting the following: 6 7 7, 8, 17, 18 Former tax lot 800, located within the SE ¼ SE ¼ of Section 7; SW ¼ SW ¼ of Section 8; NW ¼ NW ¼ of Section 17; and NE ¼ NE ¼ of Section 18 5.55 ; (ii) in the acres column of the last item added by section 2(a)(1) of Public Law 103–445 (108 Stat. 4566), by striking 240 and inserting 241.06 ; and (iii) by striking all text after 6 7 18 E ½ NE ¼ 43.42 ; and inserting the following: 6 8 1 W ½ SE ¼ SE ¼ 20.6 6 8 1 N ½ SW ¼ SE ¼ 19.99 6 8 1 SE ¼ NE ¼ 9.99 6 8 1 NE ¼ SW ¼ 10.46 6 8 1 NE ¼ SW ¼, NW ¼ SW ¼ 12.99 6 7 6 SW ¼ NW ¼ 37.99 6 7 5 SE ¼ SW ¼ 24.87 6 7 5, 8 SW ¼ SE ¼ of Section 5; and NE ¼ NE ¼, NW ¼ NE ¼, NE ¼ NW ¼ of Section 8 109.9 6 8 1 NW ¼ SE ¼ 31.32 6 8 1 NE ¼ SW ¼ 8.89 6 8 1 SW ¼ NE ¼, NW ¼ NE ¼ 78.4 6 7 8, 17 SW ¼ SW ¼ of Section 8; and NE ¼ NW ¼, NW ¼ NW ¼ of Section 17 14.33 6 7 17 NW¼ NW ¼ 6.68 6 8 12 SW ¼ NE¼ 8.19 6 8 1 SE ¼ SW ¼ 2.0 6 8 1 SW ¼ SW ¼ 5.05 6 8 12 SE ¼, SW ¼ 50.8 6 7 17, 18 SW ¼, NW ¼ of Section 17; and SE ¼, NE ¼ of Section 18 136.83 6 8 1 SW ¼ SE ¼ 20.08 6 7 5 NE ¼ SE ¼, SE ¼ SE ¼, E ½ SE ¼ SW ¼ 97.38 4 7 31 SE ¼ 159.60 6 7 17 NW ¼ NW ¼ 3.14 6 8 12 NW ¼ SE ¼ 1.10 6 7 8 SW ¼ SW ¼ 0.92 6 8 12 NE ¼ NW ¼ 1.99 6 7 7 NW ¼ NW ¼ of Section 7; and 6 8 12 S ½ NE ¼, E ½ NE ¼ NE ¼ of Section 12 86.48 6 8 12 NE ¼ NW ¼ 1.56    Total 11,274.19 .