Barona Band of Mission Indians Land Transfer Clarification Act of 2012
PL 112-232 (S.3193), enacted 12/28/2012

126 STAT. 1621 
PUBLIC LAW 112–232—DEC. 28, 2012 
Public Law 112–232 
112th Congress 
An Act 
To make technical corrections to the legal description of certain land to be held 
in trust for the Barona Band of Mission Indians, 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 ‘‘Barona Band of Mission Indians 
Land Transfer Clarification Act of 2012’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— 
(1) the legal description of land previously taken into trust 
by the United States for the benefit of the Barona Band of 
Mission Indians may be interpreted to refer to private, nontribal 
land; 
(2) there is a continued, unresolved disagreement between 
the Barona Band of Mission Indians and certain off-reservation 
property owners relating to the causes of diminishing native 
groundwater; 
(3) Congress expresses no opinion, nor should an opinion 
of Congress be inferred, relating to the disagreement described 
in paragraph (2); and 
(4) it is the intent of Congress that, if the land described 
in section 121(b) of the Native American Technical Corrections 
Act of 2004 (118 Stat. 544) (as amended by section 3) is used 
to bring water to the Barona Indian Reservation, the effort 
is authorized only if the effort also addresses water availability 
for neighboring off-reservation land located along Old Barona 
Road that is occupied as of the date of enactment of this 
Act by providing guaranteed access to that water supply at 
a mutually agreeable site on the southwest boundary of the 
Barona Indian Reservation. 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are— 
(1) to clarify the legal description of the land placed into 
trust for the Barona Band of Mission Indians in 2004; and 
(2) to remove all doubt relating to the specific parcels 
of land that Congress has placed into trust for the Barona 
Band of Mission Indians. 
SEC. 3. LAND TRANSFER. 
Section 121 of the Native American Technical Corrections Act 
of 2004 (Public Law 108–204; 118 Stat. 544) is amended— 
(1) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following: 
Barona Band of 
Mission Indians 
Land Transfer 
Clarification Act 
of 2012. 
Dec. 28, 2012 
[S. 3193] 
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126 STAT. 1622 
PUBLIC LAW 112–232—DEC. 28, 2012 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 3193: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 112–702 (Comm. on Natural Resources). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 112–207 (Comm. on Indian Affairs). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 158 (2012): 
Sept. 21, considered and passed Senate. 
Dec. 17, considered and passed House. 
‘‘(b) DESCRIPTION OF LAND.—The land referred to in subsection 
(a) is land comprising approximately 86.87 acres in T. 14 S., R. 
1 E., San Bernardino Meridian, San Diego County, California, and 
described more particularly as follows: 
‘‘(1) The approximately 69.85 acres located in Section 21 
and described as— 
‘‘(A) SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4, excepting the north 475 feet; 
‘‘(B) W1⁄2 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4, excepting the north 475 feet; 
‘‘(C) E1⁄2 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4, excepting the north 350 feet; 
and 
‘‘(D) the portion of W1⁄2 SE1⁄4 that lies southwesterly 
of the following line: Beginning at the intersection of the 
southerly line of said SE1⁄4 of Section 21 with the westerly 
boundary of Rancho Canada De San Vicente Y Mesa Del 
Padre Barona as shown on United States Government 
Resurvey approved January 21, 1939, and thence north-
westerly along said boundary to an intersection with the 
westerly line of said SE1⁄4. 
‘‘(2) The approximately 17.02 acres located in Section 28 
and described as NW1⁄4 NW1⁄4, excepting the east 750 feet.’’; 
and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) CLARIFICATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) EFFECT ON SECTION.—The provisions of subsection (c) 
shall apply to the land described in subsection (b), as in effect 
on the day after the date of enactment of the Barona Band 
of Mission Indians Land Transfer Clarification Act of 2012. 
‘‘(2) EFFECT ON PRIVATE LAND.—The parcel of private, non- 
Indian land referenced in subsection (a) and described in sub-
section (b), as in effect on the day before the date of enactment 
of the Barona Band of Mission Indians Land Transfer Clarifica-
tion Act of 2012, but excluded from the revised description 
of the land in subsection (b) was not intended to be— 
‘‘(A) held in trust by the United States for the benefit 
of the Band; or 
‘‘(B) considered to be a part of the reservation of the 
Band.’’. 
Approved December 28, 2012. 
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