Pit River Land Transfer Act of 2026

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Four Corners Land Transfer into Trust for Pit River Tribe

The Department of the Interior (DOI) is directed to take approximately 583.79 acres of U.S. Forest Service-managed land (the 'Four Corners Federal land') into trust for the benefit of the Pit River Tribe, constituting those lands as part of the Pit River Tribe Reservation and subjecting them to laws and regulations applicable to Indian trust property, while explicitly prohibiting any class II or class III gaming on the transferred land.

• Population Scope Low Directly affects the Pit River Tribe and its member communities — a single federally recognized tribe in California — plus the federal agencies administering the subject land.
• Budgetary Magnitude Low No funds are authorized, appropriated, or obligated; the bill imposes no expenditure beyond an administrative survey duty.
• Legal / Regulatory Depth Medium Creates a new statutory trust status for specific federal land and adds it to the Tribe's reservation by operation of law, a discrete administrative action with binding legal effect on the land's governance regime rather than a broad substantive change across a regulated population.
• Degree of Discretion Granted Low Mandatory 'shall' and 'hereby taken into trust' language eliminates agency discretion over the transfer itself, leaving the Secretary of the Interior (DOI) only ministerial implementation duties.
• Implementation & Enforcement Burden Low Imposes no new enforcement infrastructure; the gaming prohibition relies on existing Indian Gaming Regulatory Act authority rather than creating a new compliance or penalty regime.
• Temporal Commitment High The trust status and reservation designation are permanent upon enactment and persist indefinitely until Congress affirmatively acts to undo them.