[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2467 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2467

 To take certain Federal lands in Mono County, California, into trust 
            for the benefit of the Bridgeport Indian Colony.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 8, 2011

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To take certain Federal lands in Mono County, California, into trust 
            for the benefit of the Bridgeport Indian Colony.

    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 ``Bridgeport Indian Colony Land Trust, 
Health, and Economic Development Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The Bridgeport Indian Colony is a federally recognized 
        Indian tribe with a reservation located near the town of 
        Bridgeport, in Mono County, California.
            (2) The Tribe's reservation is approximately 40 acres, and 
        was established by Federal law in 1974.
            (3) The reservation lands are insufficient for the Tribe's 
        housing and community development needs.
            (4) The Tribe's reservation is located approximately 0.24 
        miles from Highway 182.
            (5) Between the Tribe's reservation and Highway 182 is an 
        undeveloped piece of Federal land, of which a 31.86 acre parcel 
        would be suitable to be added to the reservation and held in 
        trust by the United States for the benefit of the Tribe.
            (6) The expansion of the reservation will facilitate a 
        much-needed expansion of the Tribe's ability to provide housing 
        for its membership, a community activity center, and tribal 
        economic development.
            (7) Many tribal members have expressed interest in moving 
        back to the reservation if housing and job opportunities can be 
        made available.
            (8) A large portion of the nongovernmental labor force and 
        business in Mono County is seasonal in nature, and unemployment 
        in Mono County is approximately 10 percent.
            (9) Transfer of this parcel, to be held in trust for the 
        Tribe, will expedite the creation of job opportunities in this 
        rural community for both tribal members and the non-Indian 
        community.
            (10) In addition to the need for expansion of the 
        reservation, the Tribe has significant health needs that could 
        be facilitated by a separate Federal parcel being held in trust 
        by the United States for the benefit of the Tribe.
            (11) The Tribe is a member of the Toiyabe Indian Health 
        Project, a nonprofit consortium of area Indian tribes which 
        provides the Indian and non-Indian residents of the area with 
        health care services, partially funded by the Indian Health 
        Service.
            (12) The Toiyabe Indian Health Project operates other 
        facilities in Bishop and Lone Pine, California.
            (13) In the 1980s, the Tribe applied for and received a 
        Community Development Block Grant from the Department of 
        Housing and Urban Development in order to build a healthcare 
        facility in Mono County.
            (14) With Toiyabe Indian Health Project directing the 
        project, the Camp Antelope Health Clinic was built on a 7.16 
        acre parcel of Federal land one mile north of Walker, 
        California, approximately 30 miles from the Tribe's 
        reservation.
            (15) The Toiyabe Indian Health Project closed the Camp 
        Antelope Health Clinic in 2006.
            (16) The Tribe and the Toiyabe Indian Health Project have 
        agreed that the health clinic needs to be reopened.
            (17) Tribal members have to drive 90 miles to Bishop to 
        obtain Indian healthcare services.
            (18) Taking the additional land into trust will assist the 
        Tribe and the Toiyabe Indian Health Project in providing 
        healthcare services to Indians and non-Indians in the area.
            (19) The investment of Federal funds in the development of 
        the health clinic adds to the importance of maintaining the 
        parcel under Federal ownership.
            (20) On October 20, 2009, the Mono County Board of 
        Supervisors voted to support the transfer of land into trust 
        under this Act.
            (21) On April 20, 2010, the Mono County Board of 
        Supervisors agreed unanimously to enter into a Memorandum of 
        Understanding with the Tribe, thus supporting the Tribe's 
        efforts to have these parcels of land transferred into trust.

SEC. 3. LANDS TO BE TAKEN INTO TRUST.

    (a) In General.--Subject to valid existing rights and management 
agreements related to easements and rights-of-way, all right, title, 
and interest (including improvements and appurtenances) of the United 
States in and to the Federal lands described in subsection (b) are 
hereby declared to be held in trust by the United States for the 
benefit of the Bridgeport Indian Colony.
    (b) Federal Lands Described.--The Federal lands referred to in 
subsection (a) are the approximately 39.36 acres described as follows:
            (1) The South half of the South half of the Northwest 
        quarter of the Northwest quarter of the Northeast quarter and 
        the North half of the Southwest quarter of the Northwest 
        quarter of the Northeast quarter of Section 21, Township 8 
        North, Range 23 East, Mount Diablo Meridian, containing 7.5 
        acres, more or less, as identified on the map titled 
        ``Bridgeport Camp Antelope Parcel''.
            (2) Lots 1 and 2 of the survey plat attached, containing 
        31.86 acres, more or less.
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