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S. 2735 · Senate bill · 119th Congress
This bill takes approximately 265 acres of specified lands in El Dorado County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.
The bill revokes a specified public land order and administratively transfers the land from the Forest Service to the Department of the Interior. (In the public land order, the land was designated for use by the Forest Service as an experiment station.)
The bill directs Interior to take the following lands into trust for the benefit of the tribe: (1) approximately 80 acres of federal land managed by Interior's Bureau of Land Management (which includes the land transferred from the Forest Service), and (2) approximately 185 acres of fee land held by the tribe. These combined lands, approximately 265 acres, shall be part of the tribe's reservation. Further, the bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.
This Act may be cited as the “Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025”.
(a) Revocation of public land order.— Notwithstanding any other provision of law—
(1) Public Land Order 3309 (Sacramento 071209), dated January 17, 1964 (29 Fed. Reg. 609), is revoked; and
(2) Jurisdiction over the land described in the public land order referred to in paragraph (1) is transferred to the Secretary.
(b) Trust transfer.— Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, subject to valid existing rights, the Secretary shall place the following land into trust for the benefit of the Tribe:
(1) The approximately 80 acres of land generally depicted as “BLM Land–Proposed Transfer into Trust” on the Map.
(2) The approximately 185 acres of land generally depicted as “Indian Creek Ranch–Proposed Transfer into Trust Land Status” on the Map.
(c) Review; survey.—
(1) Review.— Before the deadline described in subsection (b), the Secretary shall conduct a review of the land described in that subsection to determine if a survey of the land is required.
(2) Survey.—
(A) In general.— If the Secretary determines that a survey is required under paragraph (1) after conducting the review required under that paragraph, the Secretary—
(i) shall perform a survey of the land taken into trust under subsection (b); and
(ii) may make minor corrections to the survey and legal land description of the land described in that subsection as the Secretary determines to be necessary to correct clerical, typographical, and surveying errors.
(B) Availability.— A survey conducted under subparagraph (A) shall be kept on file and available for public inspection in the appropriate office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(d) Lands part of reservation; administration.— The land taken into trust under subsection (b)—
(1) is hereby declared to be part of the Reservation; and
(2) shall be 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.
(e) Gaming prohibited.— Land taken into trust under subsection (b) shall not be used for any class II gaming or class III gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) (as those terms are defined in section 4 of that Act (25 U.S.C. 2703)).
(f) Definitions.— In this section:
(1) Map.— The term Map means the map prepared by the Bureau of Land Management titled “Proposed Bureau of Land Management Land Transfer to Shingle Springs Rancheria” and dated May 2, 2025.
(2) Reservation.— The term Reservation means the reservation of the Tribe.
(3) Secretary.— The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior.
(4) Tribe.— The term Tribe means the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California.