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S. Rept. 119-78 1 (2025-10-14)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxahty0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP Calendar No. 187 119TH CONGRESS E REPORT 1st Session SENATE 119-78 LEECH LAKE RESERVATION RESTORATION AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2025 OCTOBER 14, 2025.-Ordered to be printed Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 622] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill (S. 622) to amend the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Reservation Res- toration Act to provide for the transfer of additional Federal land to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. PURPOSE S. 622 would amend the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Restoration Act (Restoration Act) 1 to provide for the transfer of additional For- est Service lands located in the Chippewa National Forest in Cass County, Minnesota, to the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Indians. BACKGROUND AND NEED The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Indians (Tribe) is a federally-rec- ognized Indian Tribe located in Minnesota whose original reserva- tion was established by treaties and executive orders.2 The original reservation was reduced in size, from 550,000 acres to 29,000 'Pub. L. No. 116-255, 134 Stat. 1139 (2020). 2See Treaty of February 22, 1855 (10 Stat. 1165); Treaty of March 19, 1867 (16 Stat. 719); Executive Order of October 29, 1873; Executive Order of November 4, 1873; and Executive Order of and May 26, 1874. 69-010