[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 119 (Tuesday, July 23, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5205-S5206]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2926. Mr. ROUNDS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him 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 appropriate place in subtitle H of title X, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. 10____. WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE MEMORIAL AND SACRED SITE.

       (a) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Restricted fee status.--The term ``restricted fee 
     status'' means a status in which the Tribal land--
       (A) shall continue to be owned by the Tribes;
       (B) shall be part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and 
     expressly made subject to the civil and criminal jurisdiction 
     of the Oglala Sioux Tribe;
       (C) shall not be transferred without the consent of 
     Congress and the Tribes;
       (D) shall not be subject to taxation by a State or local 
     government; and
       (E) shall not be subject to any provision of law providing 
     for the review or approval by the Secretary of the Interior 
     before the Tribes may use the land for any purpose as allowed 
     by the document titled ``Covenant Between the Oglala Sioux 
     Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe'' and dated October 
     21, 2022, directly, or through agreement with another party.
       (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
     of the Interior.
       (3) Tribal land.--The term ``Tribal land'' means the 
     approximately 40 acres (including the surface and subsurface 
     estate, and mineral estate, and any and all improvements, 
     structures, and personal property on those acres) on the Pine 
     Ridge Indian Reservation in Oglala Lakota County, at Rural 
     County Road 4, Wounded Knee, South Dakota, and generally 
     depicted as ``Area of Interest'' on the map entitled 
     ``Wounded Knee Sacred Site and Memorial Land'' and dated 
     October 26, 2022, which is a segment of the December 29, 
     1890, Wounded Knee Massacre site.
       (4) Tribes.--The term ``Tribes'' means the Oglala Sioux 
     Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River 
     Reservation, both tribes being among the constituent tribes 
     of the Great Sioux Nation and signatories to the Fort Laramie 
     Treaty of 1868 between the United States of America and the 
     Great Sioux Nation, 15 Stat. 635.
       (b) Land Held in Restricted Fee Status by the Tribes.--
       (1) Action by secretary.--Not later than 365 days after 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall--
       (A) complete all actions, including documentation and minor 
     corrections to the survey and legal description of Tribal 
     land, necessary for the Tribal land to be held by the Tribes 
     in restricted fee status; and

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       (B) appropriately assign each applicable private and 
     municipal utility and service right or agreement with regard 
     to the Tribal land.
       (2) Conditions.--
       (A) Federal laws relating to indian land.--Except as 
     otherwise provided in this section, the Tribal land shall be 
     subject to Federal laws relating to Indian country, as 
     defined by section 1151 of title 18, United States Code and 
     protected by the restriction against alienation in section 
     177 of title 25, United States Code.
       (B) Use of land.--The Tribal land shall be used for the 
     purposes allowed by the document titled ``Covenant Between 
     the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe'' 
     and dated October 21, 2022.
       (C) Encumbrances and agreements.--The Tribal land shall 
     remain subject to any private or municipal encumbrance, 
     right-of-way, restriction, easement of record, or utility 
     service agreement in effect on the date of the enactment of 
     this Act.
       (D) Gaming.--Pursuant to the document titled ``Covenant 
     Between the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux 
     Tribe'' and dated October 21, 2022, the Tribal land shall not 
     be used for gaming activity under the Indian Gaming 
     Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.).
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