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[H.R. 1240 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.1240

                     One Hundred Eighteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
         the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four


                                 An Act


 
 To transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal lands from 
  the Army Corps of Engineers to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to take 
such lands into trust for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, 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 ``Winnebago Land Transfer Act of 
2023''.
SEC. 2. LAND TO BE TAKEN INTO TRUST.
    (a) In General.--Subject to all valid existing rights, all right, 
title, and interest (including improvements and appurtenances) of the 
United States in and to the Federal lands described in subsection (b), 
those Federal lands--
        (1) are declared to be part of the Winnebago Reservation 
    created by the Treaty between the United States and the Winnebago 
    Tribe in 1865; and
        (2) shall be held in trust by the United States for the benefit 
    of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska subject to the same terms and 
    conditions as those lands described in the Treaty with the 
    Winnebago Tribe, 1865 (14 Stat. 671).
    (b) Federal Lands Described.--The Federal lands described in this 
subsection are the following:
        (1) That portion of Tract No. 119, the description of which is 
    filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District 
    of Iowa (Western Division), Civil Case No. 70-C-3015-W, executed 
    May 11, 1973, said tract being situated in Section 8 and the 
    accretion land thereto, the Southwest Quarter of Section 9, the 
    West Half of Section 16, the East Half of Section 17, Township 86 
    North, Range 47 West of the Fifth Principal Meridian, Woodbury 
    County, Iowa, lying Easterly of the Nebraska/Iowa State Line and 
    Southerly of the Easterly extension of the North line of the 
    Winnebago Reservation.
        (2) Tract No. 210, as described in Schedule ``A'' of the 
    ``Declaration of Taking, Legal Description of Tract 210 and 
    Judgment on Stipulation and Order of Distribution'', filed in the 
    United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa 
    (Western Division), Civil Case No. 70-C-3015-W.
        (3) Tract No. 113, as described in the ``Judgment on 
    Declaration of Taking and Legal Description of Tract 113'', filed 
    in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska, 
    Civ. No. 03498.
    (c) Gaming Prohibition.--Class II and class III gaming under the 
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) shall not be 
allowed at any time on the land taken into trust under subsection (a).

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.