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<meta><dc:title>119 HR 165 ENR: To direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete all actions necessary for certain land to be held in restricted fee status by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>165</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="119">One Hundred Nineteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="1">A T T  H  E F  I  R  S  T S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-five</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete all actions necessary for certain land to be held in restricted fee status by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and for other purposes.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section id="d2986e62" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d2986e72" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s2" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="bold" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="x06ea9459-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  In this Act:</chapeau><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06ea945a-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s2/1" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Restricted fee status</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term “<term>restricted fee status</term>” means a status in which the Tribal land—</chapeau><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06ea945b-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s2/1/A" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>shall continue to be owned by the Tribes;</content></subparagraph>
<subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06ea945c-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s2/1/B" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>shall be part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and expressly made subject to the civil and criminal jurisdiction of the Oglala Sioux Tribe;</content></subparagraph>
<subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06ea945d-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s2/1/C" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="C">(C) </num><content>shall not be transferred without the consent of Congress and the Tribes;</content></subparagraph>
<subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06ea945e-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s2/1/D" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="D">(D) </num><content>shall not be subject to taxation by a State or local government; and</content></subparagraph>
<subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06ea945f-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s2/1/E" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="E">(E) </num><content>shall not be subject to any provision of law providing for the review or approval by the Secretary of the Interior before the Tribes may use the land for any purpose as allowed by the document titled “Covenant Between the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe” and dated October 21, 2022, directly, or through agreement with another party.</content></subparagraph>
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<paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06ea9460-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s2/2" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Secretary</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Secretary</term>” means the Secretary of the Interior.</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06ea9461-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s2/3" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tribal land</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Tribal land</term>” means the approximately 40 acres (including the surface and subsurface estate, and mineral estate, and any and all improvements, structures, and personal property on those acres) on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Oglala Lakota County, at Rural County Road 4, Wounded Knee, South Dakota, and generally depicted as “Area of Interest” on the map entitled “Wounded Knee Sacred Site and Memorial Land” and dated October 26, 2022, which is a segment of the December 29, 1890, Wounded Knee Massacre site.</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06ea9462-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s2/4" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="4">(4) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tribes</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Tribes</term>” means the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, both tribes being among the constituent tribes of the Great Sioux Nation and signatories to the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 between the United States of America and the Great Sioux Nation, <ref href="/us/stat/15/635">15 Stat. 635</ref>.</content></paragraph>
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<section id="d2986e145" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s3" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="bold" value="3">SEC. 3. </num><heading>LAND HELD IN RESTRICTED FEE STATUS BY THE TRIBES.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06eae283-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s3/a" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Action by Secretary</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 365 days after enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall—</chapeau><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06eae284-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s3/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>complete all actions, including documentation and minor corrections to the survey and legal description of Tribal land, necessary for the Tribal land to be held by the Tribes in restricted fee status; and</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06eae285-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s3/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>appropriately assign each applicable private and municipal utility and service right or agreement with regard to the Tribal land.</content></paragraph>
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<subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06eae286-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s3/b" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Conditions</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06eae287-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s3/b/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Federal laws relating to indian land</inline>.—</heading><content>Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the Tribal land shall be subject to Federal laws relating to Indian country, as defined by <ref href="/us/usc/t18/s1151">section 1151 of title 18, United States Code</ref> and protected by the restriction against alienation in <ref href="/us/usc/t25/s177">section 177 of title 25, United States Code</ref>.</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06eae288-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s3/b/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Use of land</inline>.—</heading><content>The Tribal land shall be used for the purposes allowed by the document titled “Covenant Between the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe” and dated October 21, 2022.</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06eae289-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s3/b/3" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Encumbrances and agreements</inline>.—</heading><content>The Tribal land shall remain subject to any private or municipal encumbrance, right-of-way, restriction, easement of record, or utility service agreement in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y06eae28a-7c84-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/165/s3/b/4" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="4">(4) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Gaming</inline>.—</heading><content>Pursuant to the document titled “Covenant Between the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe” and dated October 21, 2022, the Tribal land shall not be used for gaming activity under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s2701/etseq">25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.</ref>).</content></paragraph>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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