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[H.R. 165 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.165

                     One Hundred Nineteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
         the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-five


                                 An Act


 
    To direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete all actions 
 necessary for certain land to be held in restricted fee status by the 
    Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and for other 
                                purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and 
Sacred Site Act''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
    In this Act:
        (1) Restricted fee status.--The term ``restricted fee status'' 
    means a status in which the Tribal land--
            (A) shall continue to be owned by the Tribes;
            (B) shall be part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and 
        expressly made subject to the civil and criminal jurisdiction 
        of the Oglala Sioux Tribe;
            (C) shall not be transferred without the consent of 
        Congress and the Tribes;
            (D) shall not be subject to taxation by a State or local 
        government; and
            (E) shall not be subject to any provision of law providing 
        for the review or approval by the Secretary of the Interior 
        before the Tribes may use the land for any purpose as allowed 
        by the document titled ``Covenant Between the Oglala Sioux 
        Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe'' and dated October 
        21, 2022, directly, or through agreement with another party.
        (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
    the Interior.
        (3) Tribal land.--The term ``Tribal land'' means the 
    approximately 40 acres (including the surface and subsurface 
    estate, and mineral estate, and any and all improvements, 
    structures, and personal property on those acres) on the Pine Ridge 
    Indian Reservation in Oglala Lakota County, at Rural County Road 4, 
    Wounded Knee, South Dakota, and generally depicted as ``Area of 
    Interest'' on the map entitled ``Wounded Knee Sacred Site and 
    Memorial Land'' and dated October 26, 2022, which is a segment of 
    the December 29, 1890, Wounded Knee Massacre site.
        (4) Tribes.--The term ``Tribes'' means the Oglala Sioux Tribe 
    and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, 
    both tribes being among the constituent tribes of the Great Sioux 
    Nation and signatories to the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 between 
    the United States of America and the Great Sioux Nation, 15 Stat. 
    635.
SEC. 3. LAND HELD IN RESTRICTED FEE STATUS BY THE TRIBES.
    (a) Action by Secretary.--Not later than 365 days after enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary shall--
        (1) complete all actions, including documentation and minor 
    corrections to the survey and legal description of Tribal land, 
    necessary for the Tribal land to be held by the Tribes in 
    restricted fee status; and
        (2) appropriately assign each applicable private and municipal 
    utility and service right or agreement with regard to the Tribal 
    land.
    (b) Conditions.--
        (1) Federal laws relating to indian land.--Except as otherwise 
    provided in this Act, the Tribal land shall be subject to Federal 
    laws relating to Indian country, as defined by section 1151 of 
    title 18, United States Code and protected by the restriction 
    against alienation in section 177 of title 25, United States Code.
        (2) Use of land.--The Tribal land shall be used for the 
    purposes allowed by the document titled ``Covenant Between the 
    Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe'' and dated 
    October 21, 2022.
        (3) Encumbrances and agreements.--The Tribal land shall remain 
    subject to any private or municipal encumbrance, right-of-way, 
    restriction, easement of record, or utility service agreement in 
    effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.
        (4) Gaming.--Pursuant to the document titled ``Covenant Between 
    the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe'' and 
    dated October 21, 2022, the Tribal land shall not be used for 
    gaming activity under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 
    2701 et seq.).

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.