A bill to declare that the United States holds certain lands in trust for the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California and to transfer certain other lands to the administration of the United States Forest Service.
PL 97-288 (H.R.5081), enacted 10/06/1982

PUBLIC LAW 97-288—OCT. 6, 1982 
96 STAT. 1227 
Public Law 97-288 
97th Congress 
An Act 
To declare that the United States holds certain lands in trust for the Washoe Tribe of 
Nevada and California and to transfer certain other lands to the administration of 
the United States Forest Service. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) subject to 
the provisions of subsection (b), all right, title, and interest of the 
United States in the following lands (including all improvements 
thereon and appurtenances thereto, particularly all water rights 
appurtenant thereto which are presently administered by the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs of the Department of the Interior) are 
hereby declared to be held by the United States in trust for the 
benefit and use of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California and 
are hereby declared to be part of the Washoe Indian Reservation: 
Township 14 North, Range 19 East, Mount Diablo Meridian, 
Nevada 
Section 1: Lot 2 northeast quarter, lot 3; 84.90 acres. 
Section 3: West half lot 1 west half lot 2, northeast quarter, east 
half lot 1, east half lot 2, northwest quarter; 157.14 acres. 
Section 14: East half southwest quarter, southwest quarter north-
east quarter, southeast quarter northwest quarter excluding any 
portion lying west of Jack's Valley Road as it presently exists; 160.00 
acres. 
Section 22: South half north half; 160.00 acres. 
Section 23: South half, south half northwest quarter, northeast 
quarter northwest quarter; 440.00 acres. 
Section 24: South half south half; 160.00 acres. 
Section 25: North half, southeast quarter, northeast quarter 
southwest quarter; 520.00 acres. 
Section 36: West half, north half northeast quarter, southwest 
quarter northeast quarter, south half southeast quarter, northwest 
quarter southeast quarter; 560.00 acres. 
Total acreage: 2,242.04 acres more or less. 
Township 14 North, Range 20 East, Mount Diablo Meridian, 
Nevada 
Section 5: The north half of the northeast quarter lying west of 
the V and T right-of-way and south of Clear Creek; and the east half 
of lot 2 in the northwest quarter. Total acreage: 108.01 acres more or 
less. 
Section 6: Lots 1 and 2; 144.13 acres. 
Section 18: West half northeast quarter, southeast quarter north-
east quarter, northwest quarter southeast quarter; 160.00 acres 
more or less. 
Section 19: South half lot 2 northwest quarter, lot 2 southwest 
quarter; 98.36 acres more or less. 
Oct. 6, 1982 
[H.R. 5081] 
Washoe Tribe 
of Nev.-Calif. 
Lands in trust; 
other lands, 
transfer to U.S. 
Forest Service. 
96 STAT. 1228 
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Township 15 North, Range 20 East, Mount Diablo Meridian, 
Nevada 
Section 32: The east half of the southeast quarter and the south-
west quarter of the southeast quarter; and two parcels of land lying 
within the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 32 
in township 15 north of range 20 east of the Mount Diablo Meridian 
in Ormsby County, Nevada. Parcel numbered 1 is south of the 
highway leading from the Stewart Indian School to the Minden-
Carson City Highway and is described as beginning at a point at the 
southeast corner of the parcel, the corner being also the southwest 
corner of the missionary lot, said point of beginning and further 
described as bearing north 52 degrees 43 minutes west, a distance of 
2,198.00 feet from the southeast corner of section 32. 
thence north 89 degrees 50 minutes west, a distance of 900.00 
feet to the southwest corner of the parcel, said corner being also 
the southwest corner of the above described subdivision; 
thence north 0 degrees 04 seconds east, a distance of 1,102.00 
feet to a point at the northwest corner of the parcel and the 
southerly side of the highway 100-foot right-of-way line; 
thence south 51 degrees 32 minutes east, along the southerly 
side of the highway right-of-way line a distance of 1,600.28 feet 
to a point at the intersection of the highway right-of-way line 
and the northerly property line of the missionary lot; 
thence north 55 degrees 24 minutes west, along the northerly 
property line of said lot a distance of 430.00 feet to a point; 
thence south 0 degrees 04 minutes west, along the west 
boundary of said lot a distance of 354.40 feet to the point of 
beginning; said parcel numbered 1 containing 15.51 acres, more 
or less. 
Parcel numbered 2 is north of the highway leading from the Stewart 
Indian School to the Minden-Carson City highway and is described 
as beginning at a point at the southeast corner of the parcel, said 
corner being on the northerly side of the highway 100-foot right-of-
way line and the east side of the above described subdivision, said 
point of,beginning being further described as bearing north 41 
degrees 18 minutes west, a distance of 2,010 feet from the southeast 
corner of section 32: 
thence north 51 degrees 32 minutes west, along the northerly 
side of the highway right-of-way line a distance of 1,690.00 feet 
to a point; 
thence north 0 degrees 04 minutes east, a distance of 35.80 
feet to the northwest corner of the parcel, said corner being also 
the northwest corner of the above described subdivision; 
thence south 89 degrees 50 minutes east, along the subdivi-
sion line a distance of 1,239.50 feet to the northeast corner of 
the parcel and the west right-of-way line of the Virginia and 
Truckee Railroad; 
thence south 0 degrees 04 minutes west, along the railroad 
right-of-way line a distance of 44.50 feet to a point; 
thence from a tangent whose bearing is the last described 
course curving to the left with a radius of 1,196.28 feet through 
an angle of 21 degrees 15 minutes 40 seconds a distance of 
443.90 feet to a point on the railroad right-of-way line and the 
east side of the subdivision; 
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thence south 0 degrees 04 minutes west, along the east side of 
the subdivision a distance of 655.70 feet to the point of 
beginning. 
And the south half of the southwest quarter excepting the following 
parcels: 
(1) land lying west of the V and T Railroad right-of-way 
contained in the southeast quarter southeast quarter; and 
(2) southwest quarter southeast quarter. 
Total acreage 165.54 acres more or less. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall deprive any person or entity of 
any legal existing right-of-way, legal mining claim, legal grazing 
permit, legal water right (including any water right with respect to 
the Carson River as decreed by order of the United States District 
Court of the State of Nevada on October 28, 1980, in the matter of 
the determination of the relative rights in and to the waters of the 
Carson River and its tributaries in Douglas County, Nevada), or 
other legal right or legal interest which such person or entity may 
have in land described in subsection (a). 
(c) The lands which are declared to be held in trust and part of the 
Washoe Indian Reservation under subsection (a) shall be used pri-
marily for agricultural purposes. 
(d) Section 164 of the Act of July 14, 1955 (69 Stat. 322, 42 U.S.C. 
7474), as amended, shall be applied without regard to the provisions 
of this section. 
SEC. 2. On or before the expiration of one hundred and eighty days 
from the date of enactment of this Act the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
shall transfer to the Forest Service, United States Department of 
Agriculture, the following lands which shall become national forest 
system lands subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to 
the national forest system: 
Township 14 North, Range 19 East, Mount Diablo Meridian, 
Nevada 
Section 21: Southeast quarter northeast quarter; 40 acres. 
Section 28: Northeast quarter northeast quarter; 40 acres. 
Total acreage: 80.00 acres more or less. 
Approved October 6, 1982. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 5081 (S. 1858): 
HOUSE REPORT No. 97-598 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). 
SENATE REPORT No. 97-509 accompanying S. 1858 (Comm. on Indian Affairs). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982): 
July 19, considered and passed House. 
Aug. 19, S. 1858, considered and passed Senate; H.R. 5081, amended, passed in 
lieu. 
Sept. 23, House concurred in Senate amendment.