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H. Rept. 119-289 1 (2025-09-15)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxahrc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP 119TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 119-289 PIT RIVER LAND TRANSFER ACT OF 2025 SEPTEMBER 15, 2025.-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 REPORT [To accompany H.R. 2400] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2400) to take certain Federal land in the State of Cali- fornia into trust for the benefit of the Pit River Tribe, having con- sidered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends 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 Pit River Land Transfer Act of 2025. SEC. 2. LAND TO BE TAKEN INTO TRUST. (a) TRANSFER OF FOUR CORNERS FEDERAL LAND.- (1) IN GENERAL.-Subject to valid existing rights, the Four Corners Federal land is hereby taken into trust by the Secretary for the benefit of the Tribe. (2) SURvEY.-Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall provide to the Secretary a complete survey of the Four Corners Federal land. (b) ADMINISTRATION.-Upon being taken into trust under this section, the lands taken into trust by the Secretary for the benefit of the Tribe shall be- (1) considered part of the Pit River Tribe Reservation; and (2) 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. (c) GAMING PROHIBITED.-Land taken into trust under this section shall not be used for any class II gaming or class III gaming under the Indian Gaming Regu- latory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) (as those terms are defined in section 4 of that Act (25 U.S.C. 2703)). (d) DEFINITIONS.-In this Act: (1) FOUR CORNERS FEDERAL LAND.- (A) IN GENERAL.-The term Four Corners Federal land means the ap- proximately 583.79 acres of land managed by the Forest Service generally depicted within the Proposed Land Conveyance boundary on the Map, in- cluding improvements and appurtenances thereon. (B) EXCLUSION.-The term Four Corners Federal land does not include the approximately 20.03 acres of roads, highways, and public rights-of-way 59-006