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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · Barona Band of Mission Indians Land Transfer Clarification Act of 2012 · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES

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## SEC. 2 FINDINGS; PURPOSES ###
(a)Findings Congress finds that— ####
(1)the legal description of land previously taken into trust by the United States for the benefit of the Barona Band of Mission Indians may be interpreted to refer to private, nontribal land; ####
(2)there is a continued, unresolved disagreement between the Barona Band of Mission Indians and certain off-reservation property owners relating to the causes of diminishing native groundwater; ####
(3)Congress expresses no opinion, nor should an opinion of Congress be inferred, relating to the disagreement described in paragraph (2); and ####
(4)it is the intent of Congress that, if the land described in section 121(b) of the Native American Technical Corrections Act of 2004 (118 Stat. 544) (as amended by section 3) is used to bring water to the Barona Indian Reservation, the effort is authorized only if the effort also addresses water availability for neighboring off-reservation land located along Old Barona Road that is occupied as of the date of enactment of this Act by providing guaranteed access to that water supply at a mutually agreeable site on the southwest boundary of the Barona Indian Reservation. ###
(b)Purposes The purposes of this Act are— ####
(1)to clarify the legal description of the land placed into trust for the Barona Band of Mission Indians in 2004; and ####
(2)to remove all doubt relating to the specific parcels of land that Congress has placed into trust for the Barona Band of Mission Indians.
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