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 PUBLIC LAW 109–432—DEC. 20, 2006

120 STAT. 3043

(1) GAMING.—Land taken into trust under subsection (a) shall not be— (A) considered to have been taken into trust for gaming (as that term is used in the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.)); and (B) used for gaming. (2) TRUST LAND FOR CEREMONIAL USE.—With respect to the use of the land identified on the map as ‘‘Ely Shoshone Expansion’’ and marked as ‘‘3’’, the Tribe— (A) shall limit the use of the surface of the land to traditional and customary uses and stewardship conservation for the benefit of the Tribe; and (B) shall not permit any permanent residential or recreational development on, or commercial use of, the surface of the land, including commercial development or gaming. (3) THINNING; LANDSCAPE RESTORATION.—With respect to land taken into trust under subsection (a), the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management may, in consultation and coordination with the Tribe, carry out any thinning and other landscape restoration work on the trust land that is beneficial to the Tribe and the Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management.

Subtitle G—Eastern Nevada Landscape Restoration Project. SEC. 371. FINDINGS; PURPOSES.

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— (1) there is an increasing threat of wildfire in the Great Basin; (2) those wildfires— (A) endanger homes and communities; (B) damage or destroy watersheds and soils; and (C) pose a serious threat to the habitat of threatened and endangered species; (3) forest land and rangeland in the Great Basin are degraded as a direct consequence of land management practices (including practices to control and prevent wildfires) that disrupt the occurrence of frequent low-intensity fires that have periodically removed flammable undergrowth; and (4) additional scientific information is needed in the Great Basin for— (A) the design, implementation, and adaptation of landscape-scale restoration treatments; and (B) the improvement of wildfire management technology and practices. (b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this subtitle are to— (1) support the Great Basin Restoration Initiative through the implementation of the Eastern Nevada Landscape Restoration Project; and (2) ensure resilient and healthy ecosystems in the Great Basin by restoring native plant communities and natural mosaics on the landscape that function within the parameters of natural fire regimes.

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