[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4908 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4908

  To transfer certain land in Riverside County, California, from the 
Bureau of Land Management to the United States to be held in trust for 
 the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians, and for other purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 2004

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

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
  To transfer certain land in Riverside County, California, from the 
Bureau of Land Management to the United States to be held in trust for 
 the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians, 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 ``Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission 
Indians Land Transfer Act of 2004''.

SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF LAND IN TRUST FOR PECHANGA BAND OF LUISENO MISSION 
              INDIANS.

    (a) Transfer and Administration.--Effective on the date of the 
enactment of this Act, all right, title, and interest of the United 
States in and to the Federal lands described in subsection (b), 
including all improvements thereon, appurtenances thereto, and rights 
to all minerals thereon or therein, including oil and gas, water, and 
related resources, shall be held by the United States in trust for the 
Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians, a federally recognized Indian 
tribe. The transferred land shall be declared part of the Pechanga 
Indian Reservation and administered in accordance with the laws and 
regulations generally applicable to property held in trust by the 
United States for an Indian tribe.
    (b) Description of Land.--The lands referred to in subsection (a) 
consist of approximately 990.74 acres in Riverside County, California, 
which, before the transfer under such section, were administered by the 
Bureau of Land Management and are more particularly described as 
follows:
            (1) Sections 29, 30, and 32 of township 8 south, range 2 
        west, San Bernardino base and meridian.
            (2) Section 6 of township 9 south, range 2 west, San 
        Bernardino base and meridian.
            (3) Mineral Survey 3540, section 22 of township 5 south, 
        range 4 west, San Bernardino base and meridian.
    (c) Survey.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Office of Cadastral Survey of the Bureau of 
Land Management shall complete a survey of the lands transferred under 
subsection (a) for the purpose of establishing the boundaries of the 
lands.
    (d) Legal Descriptions.--
            (1) Publication.--On approval of the survey completed under 
        subsection (c) by the duly elected tribal council of the 
        Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians, the Secretary of the 
        Interior shall publish in the Federal Register--
                    (A) a legal description of the boundary lines; and
                    (B) legal description of the lands transferred 
                under subsection (a).
            (2) Effect.--Beginning on the date on which the legal 
        descriptions are published under paragraph (1), such legal 
        descriptions shall be the official legal descriptions of the 
        boundary lines and the lands transferred under subsection (a).
    (e) Rules of Construction.-- Nothing in this Act shall--
            (1) enlarge, impair, or otherwise affect any right or claim 
        of the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians to any land or 
        interest in land that is in existence before the date of the 
        enactment of this Act; or
            (2) affect any water right of the Pechanga Band of Luiseno 
        Mission Indians in existence before the date of the enactment 
        of this Act.
                                 <all>