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This bill, the Tierra Amarilla Traditional Use Lands Management and Transfer Act, proposes to enact several key provisions: 1. It requires the Department of Game and Fish to conduct surveys, appraisals, and resource inventories of certain wildlife management areas, known as the "traditional use lands," which are located within the boundaries of the Tierra Amarilla Land Grant. 2. It requires the State Game Commission to develop a "traditional use resource management plan" in cooperation with the Tierra Amarilla Land Grant-Merced, which will outline the permitted traditional uses of the lands, such as collecting resources, fishing, hunting, and grazing. 3. It provides for a phased transfer of the management, ownership, and title of the traditional use lands from the State Game Commission to the Tierra Amarilla Land Grant-Merced by 2028. 4. It requires the distribution of hunting and fishing permits for the traditional use lands to the Tierra Amarilla Land Grant-Merced, with the land grant-merced making a percentage of the permits available for purchase by the general public. 5. It appropriates $200,000 from the general fund to the Department of Game and Fish to implement the provisions of the Act.

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