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H. Rept. 115-817 1 (2018-07-13)

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                     115TH CONGRESS                                          REPORT
                        2d Session   j HOUSE   OF  REPRESENTATIVES           115-817






                      GILA   RIVER   INDIAN COMMUNITY FEDERAL RIGHTS-OF-
                      WAY,   EASEMENTS AND BOUNDARY CLARIFICATION ACT



                      JULY 13, 2018.-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. 4032]

                               [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]

                       The Committee   on  Natural Resources,  to whom   was referred the
                     bill (H.R. 4032) to confirm undocumented Federal rights-of-way or
                     easements  on the Gila  River Indian Reservation,  clarify the north-
                     ern boundary  of the Gila River Indian Community's   Reservation, to
                     take certain land  located in Maricopa   County  and  Pinal  County,
                     Arizona, into trust for the benefit of the Gila River Indian Commu-
                     nity, and for other purposes, having considered the same,  report fa-
                     vorably thereon  with an  amendment and recommend 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 Gila River Indian Community Federal Rights-of-
                     Way, Easements and Boundary Clarification Act.
                     SEC. 2. PURPOSES.
                     The  purposes of this Act are to-
                          (1) establish, ratify, document, and confirm the Federal electrical, irrigation,
                        and road rights-of-way and easements that exist within the exterior boundaries
                        of the Reservation as of the date of the enactment of this Act;
                          (2) establish a fixed location of the northern boundary of the Reservation and
                        to provide for the Secretary of the Interior to ensure that the northern boundary
                        is resurveyed and marked in conformance with the public system of surveys;
                          (3) authorize and direct the Secretary to place certain lands into trust for the
                        benefit of the Community;
                          (4) substitute the benefits provided under this Act to the Community, its
                        members and allottees for any claims that the Community, its members and
                        allottees may have had in connection with alleged failures relating to the north-


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