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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-164
EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE HISTORIC LANDS
REACQUISITION ACT
NOVEMBER 1, 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. 2088]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2088) to take certain Federal lands in Tennessee into
trust for the benefit of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and
for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 2088 is to take certain Federal lands in Ten-
nessee into trust for the benefit of the Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is one of three federally
recognized Cherokee tribes and is the only federally recognized
tribe in North Carolina. The Eastern Band's ancestral homeland
includes substantial parts of seven eastern states, including Ten-
nessee. The 57,000-acre Qualla Boundary is the name of the
Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina.
H.R. 2088 will transfer approximately 76 acres of historically sig-
nificant lands from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to the
United States to be held in trust for the Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians. It also grants two permanent easements over TVA prop-
erty to be held in trust for the Tribe to create recreational trails
between the sites.
The properties are located in Monroe County, Tennessee, near
the town of Vonore, and are adjacent to Tellico Lake, the reservoir
behind TVA's Tellico Dam. The Tribe currently manages most of
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