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H. Rept. 115-202 1 (2017-07-11)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaion0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED r U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION 4 115TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-202 LYTTON RANCHERIA HOMELANDS ACT OF 2017 JULY 11, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 597] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 597) to take lands in Sonoma County, California, into trust as part of the reservation of the Lytton Rancheria of Cali- fornia, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of H.R. 597 is to take lands in Sonoma County, Cali- fornia, into trust as part of the reservation of the Lytton Rancheria of California. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION The Lytton Rancheria is a tribe of approximately 220 enrolled members near the central California coast, with the tribal head- quarters located in Santa Rosa, California. The original 50-acre Rancheria land, located approximately 20 miles north of Santa Rosa, California, was purchased and set aside by the United States in 1926. From the late 1930s to the late 1950s, the Rancheria was composed of two families and their descendants who moved to the 50-acre tract north of Healdsburg, California. In 1958, federal su- pervision of the Rancheria was terminated by an Act of Congress by Public Law 85-671 (72 Stat. 619). This occurred in the context of the Termination Era when Congress determined to end its pol- icy of recognizing tribes, holding their lands in federal trust, and supervising their efforts. Subsequently, title to the Rancheria land 69-006