House committee approves four Indian bills
Friday, April 18, 2008
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Politics
The
House Natural Resources Committee approved four Indian bills at a markup on Thursday.
H.R.
3522,
H.R.3490, and
S.
2457 were approved by unanimous consent.
A fourth bill,
H.R.1575, to recognize Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan, was approved after a substitute amendment was adopted. No one spoke against the measure.
The three unanimous consent bills were:
* H.R.
3522: To ratify a conveyance of a portion of the Jicarilla Apache
Reservation to Rio Arriba County, State of New Mexico, pursuant to the
settlement of litigation between the Jicarilla Apache Nation and Rio Arriba
County, State of New Mexico, to authorize issuance of a patent for said lands,
and to change the exterior boundary of the Jicarilla Apache Reservation
accordingly, and for other purposes.
* H.R.3490:
To transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal lands from the Bureau
of Land Management to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to take such lands into
trust for Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria, and for
other purposes. "Tuolumne Me-Wuk Land Transfer Act of 2007"
* S.
2457: A bill to provide for extensions of leases of certain land by
Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation.
Committee Notice:
Full
Committee Markup (April 17, 2008)
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