[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
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[H.R. 2710 Referred in Senate (RFS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H.R. 2710


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 11, 1996

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
     To provide for the conveyance of certain land in the State of 
                 California to the Hoopa Valley Tribe.

    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 ``Hoopa Valley Reservation South 
Boundary Adjustment Act''.

SEC. 2. LAND TRANSFER TO RESERVATION.

    (a) In General.--All right, title, and interest of the United 
States in and to the lands described in subsection (b) shall hereafter 
be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Hoopa 
Valley Tribe and shall be part of the Hoopa Valley Reservation.
    (b) Lands Described.--The lands referred to in subsection (a) are 
those portions of Townships 7 North and 8 North, Ranges 5 East and 6 
East, Humboldt Meridian, California, within a boundary beginning at a 
point on the current south boundary of the Hoopa Valley Indian 
Reservation, marked and identified as ``Post H.V.R. No. 8'' on the Plat 
of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation prepared from a field survey 
conducted by C.T. Bissel, Augustus T. Smith and C.A. Robinson, Deputy 
Surveyors, approved by the Surveyor General, H. Pratt, March 18, 1892, 
and extending from said point on a bearing of north 72 degrees 30 
minutes east, until intersecting with a line beginning at a point 
marked as ``Post H.V.R. No. 3'' on said survey and extending on a 
bearing of south 15 degrees 59 minutes east, comprising 2,641 acres 
more or less.
    (c) Boundary Adjustment.--The boundary of the Six Rivers National 
Forest shall be adjusted to exclude the lands to be held in trust for 
the benefit of the Hoopa Valley Tribe pursuant to this section.

SEC. 3. SURVEY.

    The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land 
Management, shall survey and monument that portion of the boundary of 
the Hoopa Valley Reservation established by the addition of lands made 
by section 2.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 10, 1996.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.