Land Transfer for Miwok Indians

Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025This bill takes approximately 204.14 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 85.3 acres of federal land managed by Interior's Bureau of Land Management (which includes the land transferred from the Forest Service), and (2) approximately 118.84 acres of fee land held by the tribe. These combined lands, approximately 204.14 acres, shall be part of the tribe's reservation. Further, the bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.

1. This bill transfers certain federal land in California to the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. 2. The land includes approximately 80 acres and 185 acres, which will be put into trust for the Tribe. 3. The Secretary of the Interior must complete this transfer within 180 days of the bill becoming law. 4. The land will be part of the Tribe's reservation and managed according to federal law. 5. No gaming activities will be allowed on the newly transferred land.