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117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-679
KATIMIIN AND AMEEKYAARAAM SACRED LANDS ACT
DECEMBER 30, 2022.-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. 6032]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 6032) to take certain Federal lands located in Siskiyou
County, California, and Humboldt County, California, into trust for
the benefit of the Karuk Tribe, and for other purposes, having con-
sidered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment
and recommends 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 Katimiin and Ameekyiaraam Sacred Lands Act.
SEC. 2. LAND HELD IN TRUST FOR THE KARUK TRIBE.
(a) FINDINGS.-Congress finds that-
(1) the Katimiin and Ameekyaaraam land is located in the ancestral territory
of the Karuk Tribe; and
(2) the Karuk Tribe has historically used, and has an ongoing relationship
with, the Katimiin and Ameekyaaraam land.
(b) DEFINITIONS.-In this section:
(1) KATIMIIN AND AMEEKYAARAAM LAND.-The term Katimiin and
Ameekyiaraam land means the approximately 1,031 acres of Federal land, in-
cluding improvements and appurtenances to the Federal land, located in
Siskiyou County, California, and Humboldt County, California, and generally
depicted as Proposed Area on the map of the Forest Service entitled Katimiin
Area Boundary Proposal and dated August 9, 2021.
(2) SECRETARY.-The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior.
(c) ADMINISTRATIVE TRANSFER.-Administrative jurisdiction of the Katimiin and
Ameekyaaraam land is hereby transferred from the Secretary of Agriculture to the
Secretary, subject to the condition that the Chief of the Forest Service shall continue
to manage the component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System that flows
through the Katimiin and Ameekyaaraam land.
(d) LAND HELD IN TRUST.-The Katimiin and Ameekyiaraam land is hereby
taken into trust by the Secretary for the benefit of the Karuk Tribe, subject to-
(1) valid existing rights, contracts, and management agreements relating to
easements and rights-of-way; and
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