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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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117TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-114
CATAWBA INDIAN NATION LANDS ACT
AUGUST 13, 2021.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 1619]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1619) to clarify the status of gaming conducted by the Ca-
tawba Indian Nation, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1619 is to reaffirm the action taken by the
Secretary of the Interior on July 10, 2020, to place approximately
17 acres of land located in Cleveland County, North Carolina, into
trust on behalf of the Catawba Indian Tribe (Catawba or Tribe), for
the purpose of conducting Indian gaming subject to the provisions
of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988.
NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Section 14 of the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land
Claims Settlement Act of 19931 (1933 Settlement Act) prohibits the
Tribe from utilizing the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act 2 (IGRA)
'Pub. L. No.103-116, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-107/pdf/STATUTE-107-
Pg1118.pdf, 107 Stat. 1118 (1993), https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=107&
page=1118 (codified as amended at various, see https://uscode.house.gov/table3/103_116.htm).
2Pub. L. No. 100-497, 102 Stat. 2467 (1988), https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?
volume=102&page=2467 (codified as amended at various, see https://uscode.house.gov/table3/
100_497.htm) (statutory compilation as amended through P.L. 109-221 at https://
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1405/pdf/COMPS-1405.pdf).
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