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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-319
SANTA YNEZ BAND OF CHUMASH INDIANS LAND
AFFIRMATION ACT OF 2017
SEPTEMBER 21, 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 H.R. 1491]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1491) to reaffirm the action of the Secretary of the Inte-
rior to take land into trust for the benefit of the Santa Ynez Band
of Chumash Mission Indians, and for other purposes, having con-
sidered 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.
This Act may be cited as the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Land Affir-
mation Act of 2017.
SEC. 2. REAFFIRMATION OF STATUS AND ACTIONS.
(a) RATIFICATION OF TRUST STATUS.-The action taken by the Secretary on Janu-
ary 20, 2017, to place approximately 1,427.28 acres of land located in Santa Barbara
County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Indians is hereby ratified and confirmed as if that action had been taken under a
Federal law specifically authorizing or directing that action.
(b) RATIFICATION OF ACTIONS OF THE SECRETARY.-The actions taken by the Sec-
retary to assume jurisdiction over the appeals relating to the fee-to-trust acquisition
of approximately 1,427.28 acres in Santa Barbara County, California, on January
30, 2015, is hereby ratified and confirmed as if that action had been taken under
a Federal law specifically authorizing or directing that action.
(c) RATIFICATION OF ACTIONS OF THE SECRETARY.-The actions taken by the Sec-
retary to dismiss the appeals relating to the fee-to-trust acquisition of approximately
1,427.28 acres in Santa Barbara County, California, on January 19, 2017, is hereby
ratified and confirmed as if that action had been taken under a Federal law specifi-
cally authorizing or directing that action.
(d) ADMINISTRATION.-
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