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Calendar No. 510
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 118-223
A BILL TO REAFFIRM THE APPLICABILITY OF THE INDIAN REORGANIZA-
TION ACT TO THE LYTTON RANCHERIA OF CALIFORNIA, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SCHATZ, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 4000]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill,
(S. 4000), to reaffirm the applicability of the Indian Reorganization
Act to the Lytton Rancheria of California, and for other purposes,
having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without
amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
S. 4000 would reaffirm the applicability of the Indian Reorga-
nization Act (IRA) 1 to the Lytton Rancheria of California
(Rancheria) and clarify that it is eligible to have lands taken into
trust through the Department of the Interior's (DOI) land-into-
trust process.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
In 1961, Congress formally terminated the federal-tribal relation-
ship with several Indian Tribes in California, including the Lytton
Rancheria.2 In 1991, the Rancheria's federal status was restored by
court order after years of litigation,3 and in 2000, Congress di-
rected the Secretary of the Interior to take 9.5 acres of land into
trust for the Rancheria for gaming purposes in San Pablo, Cali-
'Pub. L. No. 73-383, 48 Stat. 984 (1934).
2California Rancheria Termination Act of 1958, Pub. L. No. 85-671 (1958).
3 Scotts Valley Band of Porno Indians of the Sugar Bowl Rancheria v. United States, No. C-
86-3660 (N.D. Cal. March 22, 1991).
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