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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
Calendar No. 432
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 117-127
OLD PASCUA COMMUNITY LAND ACQUISITION ACT
JUNE 23, 2022.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SCHATZ, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 4881]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(H.R. 4881) to direct the Secretary of the Interior to take into trust
for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona certain land in Pima County,
Arizona, and for other purposes, having considered the same, re-
ports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that
the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
H.R. 4881 authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to take ap-
proximately 30 acres of land within the city of Tucson, Arizona,
into trust for the benefit of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe.
BACKGROUND & NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona is one of 22 federally recog-
nized tribes in the state of Arizona.
In 1920, prior to the Tribe's federal recognition, 40-acres of land,
then located outside the City of Tucson, were donated to the Yaqui
people for the establishment of the Yaqui Nation. Yaqui people
then moved to this area, now known as Old Pascua. In 1952,
these lands were annexed by the City of Tucson but many Yaqui
families remained. In 1964, Congress transferred 202.76 acres, lo-
cated approximately 15 miles southwest of Tucson, to the Pascua
Yaqui Association.1 When the Pascua Yaqui Tribe gained federal
1Private Law 88-350.
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