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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-242
TO PROVIDE THAT THE PUEBLO OF SANTA CLARA MAY
LEASE FOR 99 YEARS CERTAIN RESTRICTED LAND,
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
JULY 24, 2017.-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 S. 249]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (S. 249) to provide that the pueblo of Santa Clara may lease
for 99 years certain restricted land, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment
and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of S. 249 is to provide that the pueblo of Santa
Clara may lease for 99 years certain restricted land.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
In 1834, with the enactment of the Non-intercourse Act (R.S.
2116, 25 U.S.C. 177), land transactions with Indians were prohib-
ited unless authorized by Congress. Over time, such restrictions
came to apply primarily to lands held in trust by the United States
for the benefit of individual Indians or tribes (trust lands), and
land title held in fee by Indians or tribes subject to a restriction
on alienation (restricted fee lands).
In 1955, Congress passed what is commonly known as the Indian
Long-Term Leasing Act of 1955 (ILTLA, 25 U.S.C. 415) to soften
the effect of the Non-Intercourse Act. The ILTLA generally author-
izes any Indian lands (in trust or in restricted fee status) to be
leased by their Indian owners, subject to the approval of the Sec-
retary of the Interior, for public, religious, educational, rec-
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