Public Law 97–288

subject to

Washoe Tribe of Nev.-Calif.

Lands in trust; other lands, transfer to U.S. Forest Service.

the provisions of subsection (b), all right, title, and interest of the United States in the following lands (including all improvements thereon and appurtenances thereto, particularly all water rights appurtenant thereto which are presently administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the Department of the Interior) are hereby declared to be held by the United States in trust for the benefit and use of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California and are hereby declared to be part of the Washoe Indian Reservation:

Township 14 North, Range 19 East, Mount Diablo Meridian, Nevada

Section 1: Lot 2 northeast quarter, lot 3; 84.90 acres.

Section 3: West half lot 1 west half lot 2, northeast quarter, east half lot 1, east half lot 2, northwest quarter; 157.14 acres.

Section 14: East half southwest quarter, southwest quarter northeast quarter, southeast quarter northwest quarter excluding any portion lying west of Jack’s Valley Road as it presently exists; 160.00 acres.

Section 22: South half north half; 160.00 acres.

Section 23: South half, south half northwest quarter, northeast quarter northwest quarter; 440.00 acres.

Section 24: South half south half; 160.00 acres.

Section 25: North half, southeast quarter, northeast quarter southwest quarter; 520.00 acres.

Section 36: West half, north half northeast quarter, southwest quarter northeast quarter, south half southeast quarter, northwest quarter southeast quarter; 560.00 acres.

Total acreage: 2,242.04 acres more or less.

Township 14 North, Range 20 East, Mount Diablo Meridian, Nevada

Section 5: The north half of the northeast quarter lying west of the V and T right-of-way and south of Clear Creek; and the east half of lot 2 in the northwest quarter. Total acreage: 108.01 acres more or less.

Section 6: Lots 1 and 2; 144.13 acres.

Section 18: West half northeast quarter, southeast quarter northeast quarter, northwest quarter southeast quarter; 160.00 acres more or less.

Section 19: South half lot 2 northwest quarter, lot 2 southwest quarter; 98.36 acres more or less.

Township 15 North, Range 20 East, Mount Diablo Meridian, Nevada

Section 32: The east half of the southeast quarter and the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter; and two parcels of land lying within the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 32 in township 15 north of range 20 east of the Mount Diablo Meridian in Ormsby County, Nevada. Parcel numbered 1 is south of the highway leading from the Stewart Indian School to the Minden-Carson City Highway and is described as beginning at a point at the southeast corner of the parcel, the corner being also the southwest corner of the missionary lot, said point of beginning and further described as bearing north 52 degrees 43 minutes west, a distance of 2, 198.00 feet from the southeast corner of section 32.

thence north 89 degrees 50 minutes west, a distance of 900.00 feet to the southwest corner of the parcel, said corner being also the southwest corner of the above described subdivision;

thence north 0 degrees 04 seconds east, a distance of 1,102.00 feet to a point at the northwest corner of the parcel and the southerly side of the highway 100-foot right-of-way line;

thence south 51 degrees 32 minutes east, along the southerly side of the highway right-of-way line a distance of 1,600.28 feet to a point at the intersection of the highway right-of-way line and the northerly property line of the missionary lot;

thence north 55 degrees 24 minutes west, along the northerly property line of said lot a distance of 430.00 feet to a point;

thence south 0 degrees 04 minutes west, along the west boundary of said lot a distance of 354.40 feet to the point of beginning; said parcel numbered 1 containing 15.51 acres, more or less.

Parcel numbered 2 is north of the highway leading from the Stewart Indian School to the Minden-Carson City highway and is described as beginning at a point at the southeast corner of the parcel, said corner being on the northerly side of the highway 100-foot right-of-way line and the east side of the above described subdivision, said point of beginning being further described as bearing north 41 degrees 18 minutes west, a distance of 2,010 feet from the southeast corner of section 32:

thence north 51 degrees 32 minutes west, along the northerly side of the highway right-of-way line a distance of 1,690.00 feet to a point;

thence north 0 degrees 04 minutes east, a distance of 35.80 feet to the northwest corner of the parcel, said corner being also the northwest corner of the above described subdivision;

thence south 89 degrees 50 minutes east, along the subdivision line a distance of 1,239.50 feet to the northeast corner of the parcel and the west right-of-way line of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad;

thence south 0 degrees 04 minutes west, along the railroad right-of-way line a distance of 44.50 feet to a point;

thence from a tangent whose bearing is the last described course curving to the left with a radius of 1,196.28 feet through an angle of 21 degrees 15 minutes 40 seconds a distance of 443.90 feet to a point on the railroad right-of-way line and the east side of the subdivision;

thence south 0 degrees 04 minutes west, along the east side of the subdivision a distance of 655.70 feet to the point of beginning.

And the south half of the southwest quarter excepting the following parcels:

Total acreage 165.54 acres more or less.

Nothing in this section shall deprive any person or entity of any legal existing right-of-way, legal mining claim, legal grazing permit, legal water right (including any water right with respect to the Carson River as decreed by order of the United States District Court of the State of Nevada on October 28, 1980, in the matter of the determination of the relative rights in and to the waters of the Carson River and its tributaries in Douglas County, Nevada), or other legal right or legal interest which such person or entity may have in land described in subsection (a).

The lands which are declared to be held in trust and part of the Washoe Indian Reservation under subsection (a) shall be used primarily for agricultural purposes.

Section 164 of the Act of July 14, 1955 (69 Stat. 322, 42 U.S.C. 7474), as amended, shall be applied without regard to the provisions of this section.