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INFORMATION .
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-369
WINNEBAGO LAND TRANSFER ACT OF 2023
JANUARY 30, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 1240]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1240) to transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain
Federal lands from the Army Corps of Engineers to the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, to take such lands into trust for the Winnebago
Tribe of Nebraska, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommends 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 Winnebago Land Transfer Act of 2023.
SEC. 2. LAND TO BE TAKEN INTO TRUST.
(a) IN GENERAL.-Subject to all valid existing rights, all right, title, and interest
(including improvements and appurtenances) of the United States in and to the Fed-
eral lands described in subsection (b), those Federal lands-
(1) are declared to be part of the Winnebago Reservation created by the Trea-
ty between the United States and the Winnebago Tribe in 1865; and
(2) shall be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Winne-
bago Tribe of Nebraska subject to the same terms and conditions as those lands
described in the Treaty with the Winnebago Tribe, 1865 (14 Stat. 671).
(b) FEDERAL LANDS DESCRIBED.-The Federal lands described in this subsection
are the following:
(1) That portion of Tract No. 119, the description of which is filed in the
United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa (Western Divi-
sion), Civil Case No. 70-C-3015-W, executed May 11, 1973, said tract being sit-
uated in Section 8 and the accretion land thereto, the Southwest Quarter of Sec-
tion 9, the West Half of Section 16, the East Half of Section 17, Township 86
North, Range 47 West of the Fifth Principal Meridian, Woodbury County, Iowa,
lying Easterly of the Nebraska/Iowa State Line and Southerly of the Easterly
extension of the North line of the Winnebago Reservation.
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