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Repealing a 1918 Act to Free Ownership of Land on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho (S. 2041)

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What is S. 2041?

(Updated January 31, 2017)

This bill would repeal the Act of May 31, 1918, which authorized the Secretary of the Interior to set aside and reserve a tract of land within the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho, for the purpose of building a town site. 

The bill gives the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation "the exclusive right of first refusal to purchase at fair market value any land set aside or apart under such Act and offered for sale." The bill also "directs the United States to hold in trust for the benefit of the Tribes or a member of the Tribes: (1) any land they acquired before this Act's enactment, and (2) any land they acquired on or after this Act's enactment that is set aside or apart under such Act."

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Impact

The bill impacts land rights on the Fort Hill Indian Reservation in Idaho.

Cost of S. 2041

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