SAN JACINTO (CNS) - Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein, both D-
Calif., today announced plans to introduce legislation that would
incorporate 2,500 acres of land in the San Jacinto Mountains into a trust for
the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians.
The planned legislation would fulfill a 1999 agreement between the
Bureau of Land Management and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians to
acquire and exchange lands within the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains
National Monument to allow these lands to be managed cooperatively between the
two groups, according to officials.
"This represents the final step in bringing approximately 2,560 acres
of land owned by the tribe into trust for the tribe and making those lands
part of the reservation,'' said Jeff L. Grubbe, cha
