[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 79 Introduced in House (IH)]

                                    


105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 79

    To provide for the conveyance of certain land in the Six Rivers 
National Forest in the State of California for the benefit of the Hoopa 
                             Valley Tribe.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 7, 1997

  Mr. Riggs introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide for the conveyance of certain land in the Six Rivers 
National Forest in the State of California for the benefit of 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. TRANSFER OF LANDS WITHIN SIX RIVERS NATIONAL FOREST FOR HOOPA 
              VALLEY TRIBE.

    (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 such 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.
    (d) 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 the lands described in subsection (b).
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