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§460ffff–3 Land taken into trust for Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER CXLIII— - ALABAMA HILLS NATIONAL SCENIC AREA › § 460ffff–3

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The United States will hold about 132 acres of federal land in trust for the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Tribe after a boundary survey is finished. The land must keep any recorded easements, covenants, restrictions, withdrawals, or other recorded claims that were in place on March 12, 2019. The 250-foot-wide right-of-way for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, granted to the City of Los Angeles by the June 30, 1906 law, is excluded from the trust. The Secretary must finish the survey within 180 days after March 12, 2019. The land will become part of the Tribe’s reservation and cannot be used for gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460ffff–3

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(a)(1)On completion of the survey described in subsection (b), all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the approximately 132 acres of Federal land depicted on the Map as “Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation Addition” shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Tribe, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2)The land described in paragraph (1) shall be subject to all easements, covenants, conditions, restrictions, withdrawals, and other matters of record in existence on March 12, 2019.
(3)The Federal land over which the right-of-way for the Los Angeles Aqueduct is located, generally described as the 250-foot-wide right-of-way granted to the City of Los Angeles pursuant to the Act of June 30, 1906 (34 Stat. 801, chapter 3926), shall not be taken into trust for the Tribe.
(b)Not later than 180 days after March 12, 2019, the Secretary shall complete a survey of the boundary lines to establish the boundaries of the land to be held in trust under subsection (a)(1).
(c)The land held in trust pursuant to subsection (a)(1) shall be considered to be a part of the reservation of the Tribe.
(d)Land held in trust under subsection (a)(1) shall not be eligible, or considered to have been taken into trust, for gaming (within the meaning of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.)).

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The Act of
June 30, 1906, referred to in subsec. (a)(3), is act
June 30, 1906, ch. 3926, 34 Stat. 801, which is not classified to the Code. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, referred to in subsec. (d), is Pub. L. 100–497, Oct. 17, 1988, 102 Stat. 2467, as amended, which is classified principally to chapter 29 (§ 2701 et seq.) of Title 25, Indians. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 2701 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and Tables.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Definitions For definition of “Secretary” as used in this section, see section 3 of Pub. L. 103–433, set out as a note under section 410aaa of this title.

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16 U.S.C. § 460ffff–3

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Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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