Title: Draft environmental impact statement
Description: The Bureau of Land Management proposes to exchange certain federal lands for properties owned by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. The selected public lands (5,799 acres) and offered Tribal lands (1,470 acres) occur within the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument. This draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) describes and analyzes alternatives based on varying amounts of public lands to be exchanged for Tribal lands, as well as the no action alternative. The purpose of the exchange is to promote effective and efficient management of the public and Tribal lands by reducing the extent of checkerboard landownership, thereby providing the BLM and the Tribe with more logical and consistent land management responsibility in the Monument.
Subjects: Indian land transfers, Management, Land titles, Registration and transfer, Public lands
Places: California, Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument (Calif.), California Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, Riverside County (Calif.), Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, Riverside County