S 2735
Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
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Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025This bill takes approximately 265 acres of specified lands in El Dorado County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.The bill revokes a specified public land order and administratively transfers the land from the Forest Service to the Department of the Interior. (In the public land order, the land was designated for use by the Forest Service as an experiment station.)The bill directs Interior to take the following lands into trust for the benefit of the tribe: (1) approximately 80 acres of federal land managed by Interior's Bureau of Land Management (which includes the land transferred from the Forest Service), and (2) approximately 185 acres of fee land held by the tribe. These combined lands, approximately 265 acres, shall be part of the tribe's reservation. Further, the bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
S. 2735
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
A BILL
To take certain Federal land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law—
Public Land Order 3309 (Sacramento 071209), dated January 17, 1964 (29 Fed. Reg. 609), is revoked; and
Jurisdiction over the land described in the public land order referred to in paragraph (1) is transferred to the Secretary.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, subject to valid existing rights, the Secretary shall place the following land into trust for the benefit of the Tribe:
The approximately 80 acres of land generally depicted as BLM Land–Proposed Transfer into Trust
on the Map.
The approximately 185 acres of land generally depicted as Indian Creek Ranch–Proposed Transfer into Trust Land Status
on the Map.
If the Secretary determines that a survey is required under paragraph (1) after conducting the review required under that paragraph, the Secretary—
A survey conducted under subparagraph (A) shall be kept on file and available for public inspection in the appropriate office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The land taken into trust under subsection (b)—
is hereby declared to be part of the Reservation; and
shall be administered by the Secretary in accordance with the laws and regulations generally applicable to property held in trust by the United States for an Indian Tribe.
Land taken into trust under subsection (b) shall not be used for any class II gaming or class III gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) (as those terms are defined in section 4 of that Act (25 U.S.C. 2703)).
In this section:
The term Map means the map prepared by the Bureau of Land Management titled Proposed Bureau of Land Management Land Transfer to Shingle Springs Rancheria
and dated May 2, 2025.
The term Reservation means the reservation of the Tribe.
The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior.
The term Tribe means the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California.