1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Land Affirmation Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress finds as follows: (1) The Chumash People have resided along California’s Central Coast since time immemorial. Prior to contact with European settlers in 1769, an estimated 22,000 Chumash lived in villages between Malibu and Monterey, California. (2) Like many California Indians, many of the Chumash people were forced to live on Spanish Missions. Mission life was cruel and resulted in the decimation of the Chumash people so that by 1831, the number of mission registered Chumash had fallen to 2,788. (3) After the dissolution of Mission Santa Ines, in current day Santa Ynez, California, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indian was able to begin to reassemble its government and culture. Tribal leaders and members continued to be marginalized until the United States granted the tribe 99 acres to establish its reservation in 1901. (4) More than 100 years later, the tribe finally secured the resources to expand its reservation and purchased roughly 1,400 acres only a few miles away from its current lands. This land is more accurately described in section 3(e) of this legislation. (5) On June 1, 2011, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians deliver a proposed cooperative agreement to the County of Santa Barbara as an initial offer to mitigate any potential impacts of taking the land into trust. (6) On June 27, 2013, after waiting more than two years for a response from Santa Barbara County to the tribe’s proposed mitigation agreement, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians submitted a fee-to-trust application for the Camp 4 property. (7) The BIA published a Notice of Availability for the initial Environmental Assessment and invited comments through an extended comment period ending on November 18, 2013. In response to comments and changes in the plan for development of Camp 4, the BIA conducted another Environmental Assessment. A final, revised EA was published in May 2014 through a Notice of