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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-194
AGUA CALIENTE LAND EXCHANGE FEE TO TRUST
CONFIRMATION ACT
DECEMBER 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. 897]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 897) to take certain lands in California into trust for the
benefit of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla 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. 897 is to take certain lands in California
into trust for the benefit of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla In-
dians.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians (ACBCI) is located
in Palm Springs, CA, east of Mt. San Jacinto, an area set aside for
the tribe in 1876 by President Ulysses S. Grant. Over the cen-
turies, the lands traditionally held by the Cahuilla people were di-
vided into even and odd parcels of land owned by a combination of
tribal, federal government, and private entities, resulting in a
checkerboard formation. However, as of today, ACBCI stands as
the single largest landowner in Palm Springs.
Over the past few decades, ACBCI has been involved in a series
of land transfers with the federal government to consolidate their
historical land base and reclaim certain culturally significant
areas. In 1999, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and
ACBCI came to one such agreement regarding the exchange of re-
mote wilderness lands located within the Santa Rosa and the San
Jacinto Mountains National Monument so that the two entities
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