[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 160 (Tuesday, October 17, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1960-E1961]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                SADDLEBACK MOUNTAIN PROPERTY SETTLEMENT

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                           HON. J.D. HAYWORTH

                               of arizona

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, October 17, 1995

  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the city of Scottsdale and 
the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian community in Arizona, I am 
introducing legislation which would approve an agreement for the 
settlement of litigation over property located in Scottsdale, known as 
the Saddleback Mountain property. Saddleback Mountain is an important 
conservation resource, and this agreement will preserve it for future 
generations. The property is a 701-acre tract of land which was owned 
by the failed Sun State Savings and Loan and is now held by the 
Resolution Trust Corporation [RTC]. The agreement approved by this 
legislation provides for the sale by the RTC of part of the Saddleback 
Mountain property to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian community, to 
be held in trust by the United States as part of 

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the tribe's reservation. The rest of the property will be sold to the 
city of Scottsdale. This legislation, which is the result of months of 
negotiation between the city of Scottsdale and the Salt River Pima-
Maricopa Indian community, will serve to ratify and authorize the 
agreement and will provide that the property purchased by the tribe 
will be taken into trust reservation status. It does not authorize any 
expenditure of funds by the United States.
  The Saddleback Mountain-Arizona Settlement Act of 1995 is 
noncontroversial and I urge my colleagues to support this important 
legislation.

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