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H. Rept. 114-173 1 (2015-06-23)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxrac0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION Gp 114TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 114-173 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH TRIBAL LAND EXCHANGE ACT JUNE 23, 2015.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 387] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 387) to provide for certain land to be taken into trust for the benefit of Morongo Band of Mission Indians, and for other pur- poses, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with- out amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of H.R. 387 is to provide for certain land to be taken into trust for the benefit of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION The reservation for the Morongo Band of Mission Indians is situ- ated on Interstate 10, 80 miles east of Los Angeles, California, and 22 miles northwest of Palm Springs, California. Initially estab- lished by Executive Orders in 1876 and 1881, certain lands were also patented to the Tribe pursuant to an Act of March 1, 1907. To- taling more than 30,000 acres in size, the reservation is adjacent to the City of Banning, California, with several checker-boarded sections (alternating parcels owned by the Tribe and different per- sons/entities). In 1995, a private landowner, a businessman from Beverly Hills, Lloyd Fields, acquired a 41-acre parcel of land from other non-In- dian private landowners near Interstate 10. The Tribe subse- quently acquired the lands surrounding the Fields property and added it to the existing reservation. When Mr. Fields planned to 49-006

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