Recreation and Public Purposes Tribal Parity Act

Bill: 117-s-4424
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
Introduced: 2022-06-16
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Land transfers

Land use and conservation

Parks, recreation areas, trails

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2022-12-01
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-06-16
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Recreation and Public Purposes Tribal Parity Act</strong></p> <p>This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to sell or lease public lands to federally recognized Indian tribes for recreational or public purposes, subject to annual acreage limitations.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4424 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 16, 2022 Mr. Padilla (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources A BILL To amend the Recreation and Public Purposes Act to authorize sales and leases of certain Federal land to federally recognized Indian Tribes, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Recreation and Public Purposes Tribal Parity Act . 2. Sale or lease of land to federally recognized Indian Tribes under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act (a) Application; acreage limitations The first section of the Act of June 14, 1926 (commonly known as the Recreation and Public Purposes Act ) (44 Stat. 741, chapter 578; 68 Stat. 174, chapter 263; 43 U.S.C. 869 ), is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) in the first sentence— (i) by inserting federally recognized Indian Tribe, before Territory, ; and (ii) by inserting Tribal, before Territorial, ; and (B) in the second sentence, by inserting , Tribal, before or local authority ; (2) in subsection (b)— (A) by striking (i) For recreational and inserting the following: (1) For recreational ; (B) by striking (ii) For public purposes and inserting the following: (2) For public purposes ; (C) in paragraph (1) (as so designated), by adding at the end the following: (D) To any federally recognized Indian Tribe, 6,400 acres. ; and (D) in paragraph (2) (as so designated), by adding at the end the following: (D) To any federally recognized Indian Tribe, 640 acres. ; and (3) in subsection (c)— (A) in the second sentence, by striking States and counties and to State and Federal and inserting States, federally recognized Indian Tribes, and counties and to State, Tribal, Territorial, and Federal ; and (B) in the last sentence, by striking , except for a use authorized under the Act of June 1, 1938 (52 Stat. 609; 43 U.S.C., sec. 682a), as amended . (b) Conveyance Section 2 of the Act of June 14, 1926 (commonly known as the Recreation and Public Purposes Act ) (44 Stat. 741, chapter 578; 43 U.S.C. 869–1 ), is amended— (1) by inserting , federally recognized Indian Tribe before , Territory each place it appears; (2) by inserting Tribal, before Territorial, each place it appears; and (3) by inserting federally recognized Indian Tribe or before municipal corporation each place it appears.