United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Congress House of Representatives author aut Government Organization text government publication eng CRPT Congressional Committee Materials 108_cong_reports legislative 2010-08-09 U.S. Government Printing Office 2004-09-28 monographic deposited born digital 5 digital object pages Y 1.1/8: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CRPT-108hrpt701 P0b002ee180349c48 000575742 f:hr701.108.txt DGPO 2010-08-09 2024-11-09 CRPT-108hrpt701 machine generated eng fdlp Report to accompany H.R. 2941, including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office, The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2941) to correct the south boundary of the Colorado River indian Reservation in Arizona, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE, FINDINGS, PURPOSES. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Colorado River indian Reservation Boundary Correction Act''. (b) Findings.--Congress finds the following: (1) The Act of March 3, 1865, created the Colorado River indian Reservation (hereinafter ``Reservation'') along the Colorado River in Arizona and California for the ``Indians of said river and its tributaries''. (2) in 1873 and 1874, President Grant issued Executive Orders to expand the Reservation southward and to secure its southern boundary at a clearly recognizable geographic location in order to forestall non-Indian encroachment and conflicts with the indians of the Reservation. (3) in 1875, Mr. Chandler Robbins surveyed the Reservation (hereinafter ``the Robbins Survey'') and delineated its new southern boundary, which included approximately 16,000 additional acres (hereinafter ``the La Paz lands''), as part of the Reservation. (4) On May 15, 1876, President Grant issued an Executive Order that established the Reservation's boundaries as those delineated by the Robbins Survey. (5) in 1907, as a result of increasingly frequent trespasses by miners and cattle and at the request of the Bureau of indian Affairs, the General Land Office of the United States provided for a resurvey of the southern and southeastern areas of the Reservation. (6) in 1914, the General Land Office accepted and approved a resurvey of the Reservation conducted by Mr. Guy Harrington in 1912 (hereinafter the ``Harrington Resurvey'') which confirmed the boundaries that were delineated by the Robbins Survey and established by Executive Order in 1876. (7) On November 19, 1915, the Secretary of the interior reversed the decision of the General Land Office to accept the Harrington Resurvey, and upon his recommendation on November 22, 1915, President Wilson issued Executive Order No. 2273 ``. . . to correct the error in location said southern boundary line . . .''--and thus effectively excluded the La Paz from the Reservation. (8) Historical evidence compiled by the Department of the interior supports the conclusion that the reason given by the Secretary in recommending that the President issue the 1915 Executive Order--``to correct an error in locating the southern boundary''--was itself in error and that the La Paz lands should not have been excluded from the Reservation. (9) The La Paz lands continue to hold cultural and historical significance, as well as economic development potential, for the Colorado River indian tribes, who have consistently sought to have such lands restored to their Reservation. (c) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are: (1) to correct the south boundary of the Reservation by reestablishing such boundary as it was delineated by the Robbins Survey and affirmed by the Harrington Resurvey. (2) to restore the La Paz lands to the Reservation, subject to valid existing rights under Federal law and to provide for continued reasonable public access for recreational purposes. (3) to provide for the Secretary of the interior to review and ensure that the corrected Reservation boundary is resurveyed and marked in conformance with the public system of surveys extended over such lands. SEC. 2. BOUNDARY CORRECTION, RESTORATION, DESCRIPTION. (a) Boundary.--The boundaries of the Colorado River indian Reservation are hereby declared to include those boundaries as were delineated by the Robbins Survey, affirmed by the Harrington Survey, and described as follows: The approximately 15,375 acres of Federal land described as ``Lands Identified for Transfer to Colorado River indian Tribes'' on the map prepared by the Bureau of Land Management entitled ``H.R. 2981, Colorado River indian Reservation Boundary Correction Act, and dated May 14, 2004'', (hereinafter referred to as the ``Map''). (b) Map.--The Map shall be available for review at the Bureau of Land Management. (c) Restoration.--Subject to valid existing rights under Federal law, all right, title, and interest of the United States to those lands within the boundaries declared in subsection (a) that were excluded from the Colorado River indian Reservation pursuant to Executive Order No. 2273 (November 22, 1915) are hereby restored to the Reservation and shall be held in trust by the United States on behalf of the Colorado River indian Tribes. (d) Exclusion.--Excluded from the lands restored to trust status on behalf of the Colorado River indian Tribes that are described in subsection (a) are 2 parcels of Arizona State Lands identified on the Map as ``State Lands'' and totaling 320 acres and 520 acres. SEC. 3. RESURVEY AND MARKING. HRPT CRPT-108hrpt701 HOUSE 108 701 2 false true https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CRPT-108hrpt701 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-108hrpt701/html/CRPT-108hrpt701.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-108hrpt701/pdf/CRPT-108hrpt701.pdf H. Rept. 108-701 The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2941) to correct the south boundary of the Colorado River Indian Reservation in Arizona, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. COLORADO RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION BOUNDARY CORRECTION ACT;H. Rept. 108-701 Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed FIRSTPART CRPT-108hrpt701 Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 2 Colorado River Indian Reservation Boundary Correction Act The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2941) to correct the south boundary of the Colorado River Indian Reservation in Arizona, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. Mr. Pombo, from the Committee on Resources, submitted the following Committee on Resources Resources Mr. Pombo Richard W. Pombo Pombo, Richard W. Richard Pombo

H.R. 2941, 108th Richard W. Pombo United States House of Representatives sponsor spn United States Congress Member United States Congress House of Representatives Committee on Resources associated name asn Government Organization S. 1652 108 OTHER S. 2317 108 OTHER H.R. 2941 108 OTHER H.R. 2941 108 PRIMARY H.R. 2981 108 OTHER Title 25 Section 2701et seq. 25 U.S.C. 2701et seq. Public Law 104-4 Public Law No 104-4