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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-513
POARCH BAND OF CREEK INDIANS LAND
REAFFIRMATION ACT
JANUARY 11, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1532]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1532) to reaffirm that certain land has been taken into
trust for the benefit of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably there-
on without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1532 is to reaffirm that certain land has
been taken into trust for the benefit of the Poarch Band of Creek
Indians.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 1532 would reaffirm and ratify the trust status of ap-
proximately 390 acres of land the Secretary of the Interior acquired
in trust for benefit of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians of Ala-
bama. The Tribe currently operates casinos regulated pursuant to
the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) on a
portion of the lands under consideration, along with a health clinic,
an assisted living facility and other facilities.
The Poarch Band of Creek Indians is located approximately 56
miles north of Mobile, Alabama. The Poarch Band is a segment of
the original Creek Nation which covered areas of Alabama and
Georgia. After the conclusion of the War of 1812, the Creeks who
supported the United States subsequently signed the Treaty of Fort
Jackson which resulted in the ceding of land in Alabama. In 1836,
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