[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4743]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2419. Ms. SMITH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1095. TRANSFER OF ADDITIONAL FEDERAL LAND TO THE LEECH 
                   LAKE BAND OF OJIBWE.

       (a) Findings.--Section 2(a)(5) of the Leech Lake Band of 
     Ojibwe Reservation Restoration Act (Public Law 116-255; 134 
     Stat. 1140) is amended by striking subparagraph (B) and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(B) does not intend immediately to modify the use of the 
     Federal land.''.
       (b) Inclusion of Additional Federal Land.--Section 2 of the 
     Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Reservation Restoration Act (Public 
     Law 116-255; 134 Stat. 1139) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)(1)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A)--
       (i) by striking ``means the approximately'' and inserting 
     ``means--
       ``(i) the approximately'';
       (ii) in clause (i) (as so designated), by striking the 
     period at the end and inserting ``; and''; and
       (iii) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(ii) any other land managed by the Secretary, through the 
     Chief of the Forest Service, located in the Chippewa National 
     Forest in Cass County, Minnesota, which records maintained by 
     the Bureau of Indian Affairs show was sold without the 
     unanimous consent of the rightful landowners.''; and
       (B) in subparagraph (B)--
       (i) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as clauses (ii) 
     and (iii), respectively; and
       (ii) by inserting before clause (ii) (as so redesignated) 
     the following:
       ``(i) any land transferred pursuant to an agreement entered 
     into between the Secretary and the Tribe under subsection 
     (c)(2);'';
       (2) in subsection (c)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``paragraph (2)'' and 
     inserting ``paragraphs (2) and (3)'';
       (B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and
       (C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
       ``(2) Agreement.--
       ``(A) In general.--On agreement between the Secretary and 
     the Tribe, the Secretary shall substitute, for purposes of 
     the transfer under paragraph (1), alternative National Forest 
     System land located in Cass County, Minnesota, on an acre-
     for-acre basis, for those parcels of Federal land to be 
     transferred under that paragraph in a manner that avoids in-
     holdings and provides a preference for land adjacent to or 
     near existing Leech Lake trust lands and lands of cultural 
     importance to the Tribe, to the maximum extent practicable.
       ``(B) Frequency of transfers.--Pursuant to an agreement 
     entered into under subparagraph (A), the Secretary may 
     transfer land to the Secretary of the Interior on a rolling 
     basis as that land is identified and surveys are 
     completed.''; and
       (3) in subsection (d)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``described in 
     subsection (b)(1)(A)(i)'' after ``Federal land''; and
       (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``submit a map and 
     legal description of the Federal land'' and inserting 
     ``submit maps and legal descriptions of the Federal land 
     transferred pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection 
     (c), as applicable,'';
       (B) in paragraph (2)--
       (i) by striking ``map and legal description'' and inserting 
     ``maps and legal descriptions''; and
       (ii) by striking ``map or legal description'' and inserting 
     ``maps or legal descriptions''; and
       (C) in paragraph (3), by striking ``map and legal 
     description'' and inserting ``maps and legal descriptions''.
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