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US. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 514
114TH CONGRESS
2d Session
SENATE
I
REPORT
114-275
INTERIOR IMPROVEMENT ACT
JUNE 9, 2016.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BARRASSO, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
MINORITY VIEWS
[To accompany S. 1879]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 1879) to improve processes in the Department of the Interior,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon with an amendment, and recommends that the bill, as
amended, do pass.
PURPOSE
S. 1879 would restore the authority of the Secretary of the De-
partment of the Interior (Secretary) to take land into trust for all
federally recognized tribes, reaffirm the status of Indian trust lands
already held in trust, and improve existing land into trust proc-
esses and procedures.
BACKGROUND
On February 24, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Carcieri
v. Salazar that the Secretary of the Interior did not have the au-
thority to take land into trust for the Narragansett Tribe under the
Indian Reorganization Act of 19341 (IRA) because the Tribe was
not under Federal jurisdiction when the IRA was enacted in
IIndian Reorganization Act of 1934, 25 U.S.C. §465 (1934).
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