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The bill transfers a small federal parcel into trust for 19 Pueblos—giving tribes local control, federal trust protections, and opportunities for community reuse—while preserving existing encumbrances, prohibiting gaming development on the land, and removing potential federal control or revenue.
19 Pueblo tribes will receive legal title to and trust status over ~9.89 acres, giving them direct control of land for educational, health, cultural, business, and community development uses.
Placing the parcel under Federal Indian trust law applies federal trust protections and can streamline tribal access to federal programs and trust-related support for projects on the land.
Tribes and local tribal communities can reuse former federal property (including an existing warehouse on the site) for local economic, business, or community purposes instead of the property remaining vacant under GSA control.
The law bars Class I–III gaming on the transferred land, preventing tribes from pursuing potentially significant gaming-related revenue on this parcel.
Existing private or municipal encumbrances and utility agreements remain in effect, which could limit how tribes use the land and require negotiation or payments to third parties to implement tribal plans.
Taxpayers may forgo potential future federal revenue or control over the property when it is removed from GSA inventory and placed into trust.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Places ~9.89 acres of former Albuquerque Indian School property into Federal trust for 19 specified Pueblos, subject to existing encumbrances and non-gaming restriction.
Introduced November 19, 2025 by Melanie Ann Stansbury · Last progress November 19, 2025
Transfers about 9.89 acres of land that were part of the Albuquerque Indian School into trust for the benefit of 19 specified Pueblos. The General Services Administration must transfer administrative jurisdiction of three described tracts to the Secretary of the Interior, who will accept title in trust; the transfer must occur within 90 days after enactment once Federal tenants are relocated. The land is subject to existing encumbrances and utility agreements, limited to non-gaming uses, and will be held under Federal Indian trust law in New Mexico.