To authorize, ratify, and confirm the Agreement of Settlement and Compromise to Resolve the Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim in the State of New York, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2916 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2916

   To authorize, ratify, and confirm the Agreement of Settlement and
 Compromise to Resolve the Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim in the State of
                   New York, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 14, 2025

 Ms. Stefanik introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL

   To authorize, ratify, and confirm the Agreement of Settlement and
 Compromise to Resolve the Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim in the State of
                   New York, 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. AGREEMENT AND TRANSFERS AUTHORIZED, RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED.

     The following are hereby authorized, ratified, and confirmed:
            (1) The Agreement of Settlement and Compromise to Resolve
        the Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim in the State of New York
        (hereafter in this Act referred to as the ``Settlement
        Agreement''), entered into by the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, the
        Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, the State of New York, the
        Counties of Franklin and Saint Lawrence, New York, the Towns of
        Fort Covington and Bombay, New York, and the New York Power
        Authority.
            (2) Any transfer of land, right-of-way, or easement that is
        the subject of the claims in the Canadian Saint Regis Band of
        Mohawk Indians v. New York et al. (82-CV-783); the Canadian
        Saint Regis Band of Mohawk Indians v. New York et al. (82-CV-
        1114); and the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, by the Saint Regis
        Mohawk Tribal Council and the People of the Longhouse at
        Akwesasne, by Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs v. The State of
        New York, et al. (89-CV-829).

SEC. 2. LANDS OWNED BY SAINT REGIS MOHAWK TRIBE WITHIN SETTLEMENT
              ACQUISITION AREAS.

    The following shall be Indian Country as defined in section 1151(a)
of title 18, United States Code, subject to the terms, conditions, and
limitations of the Settlement Agreement:
            (1) Land owned on the effective date of the Settlement
        Agreement by the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe within the Settlement
        Acquisition Areas, as defined in the Settlement Agreement.
            (2) Land acquired by the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe within
        the Settlement Acquisition Areas after the effective date of
        the Settlement Agreement.
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