Winnebago Land Transfer Act of 2021

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2402 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2402

 To transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal lands from 
 the Army Corps of Engineers to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to take 
  such lands into trust for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 8, 2021

Mr. Fortenberry (for himself, Mr. Soto, Mr. Feenstra, and Ms. Davids of 
   Kansas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal lands from 
 the Army Corps of Engineers to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to take 
  such lands into trust for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, 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 ``Winnebago Land Transfer Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. LAND TO BE TAKEN INTO TRUST.

    (a) In General.--Subject to all valid existing rights, all right, 
title, and interest (including improvements and appurtenances) of the 
United States in and to the Federal lands described in subsection (b), 
the Federal lands--
            (1) are declared to be part of the Winnebago Reservation 
        created by the Treaty between the United States and the 
        Winnebago Tribe in 1865; and
            (2) shall be held in trust by the United States for the 
        benefit of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska subject to the same 
        terms and conditions as those lands described in the Treaty 
        with the Winnebago Tribe, 1865 (14 Stat. 671).
    (b) Federal Lands Described.--The Federal lands described in this 
subsection are as follows:
            (1) That portion of Tract No. 119, the description of which 
        is filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of 
        Iowa (Western Division), Civil Case No. 70-C-3015-W, executed 
        May 11, 1973, said tract being situated in Section 8 and the 
        accretion land thereto, the Southwest Quarter of Section 9, the 
        West Half of Section 16, the East Half of Section 17, Township 
        86 North, Range 47 West of the Fifth Principal Meridian, 
        Woodbury County, Iowa, lying Easterly of the Nebraska/Iowa 
        State Line and Southerly of the Eastern extension of the North 
        line of the Winnebago Reservation.
            (2) All of Tract 210, in Iowa, the description of which is 
        filed in a Federal condemnation action in U.S. District Court 
        for the Northern District of Iowa (Western Division), in Civil 
        Case No. 70-C-3015-W.
            (3) All of Tract 113, in Iowa, the description of which is 
        filed in a Federal condemnation action in U.S. District Court 
        for the State of Nebraska, in Civil Case No. 70-C-03498.
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