Katimiîn and Ameekyáaraam Sacred Lands Act

This bill, signed into law in the 117th Congress, transfers administrative jurisdiction of 1,031 acres of federal land in Siskiyou and Humboldt Counties, California, from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the Interior, to be held in trust for the Karuk Tribe. The law specifically prohibits Class II and Class III gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act on the transferred land. It also requires continued access by the Forest Service for managing the component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System that flows through the land. No funding is authorized or appropriated by this legislation. The law is a land transfer and trust arrangement with no procurement, contracting, or spending mechanisms that would affect publicly traded companies. The policy area is Native Americans, and the bill has no convergence with other legislative signals or procurement actions that would create a market tailwind. The law is fully enacted with no further legislative steps required.