Public Law 118 - 68 - Winnebago Land Transfer Act of 2023

[118th Congress Public Law 68]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


Public Law 118-68
118th Congress

                                 An Act


 
 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. <<NOTE: July 12, 2024 -  [H.R. 1240]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Winnebago Land 
Transfer Act of 2023.>> 
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 Federal lands described in subsection (b), 
those Federal lands--
            (1) are declared to be part of the Winnebago Reservation 
        created by the Treaty 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 Winnebago 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 Division), Civil Case No. 70-C-3015-W, 
        executed May 11, 1973, said tract being situated in Section 8 
        and the accretion land thereto, the Southwest Quarter of Section 
        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.
            (2) Tract No. 210, as described in Schedule ``A'' of the 
        ``Declaration of Taking, Legal Description of Tract 210 and 
        Judgment on Stipulation and Order of Distribution'', filed in 
        the United States District Court for the Northern District of 
        Iowa (Western Division), Civil Case No. 70-C-3015-W.
            (3) Tract No. 113, as described in the ``Judgment on 
        Declaration of Taking and Legal Description of Tract 113'', 
        filed in the United States District Court for the District of 
        Nebraska, Civ. No. 03498.

    (c) Gaming Prohibition.--Class II and class III gaming under the 
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) shall not be 
allowed at any time on the land taken into trust under subsection (a).

    Approved July 12, 2024.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 1240:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 118-369 (Comm. on Natural Resources).
SENATE REPORTS: No. 118-180 (Comm. on Indian Affairs).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 170 (2024):
            Feb. 5, considered and passed House.
            June 20, considered and passed Senate.

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