The text describes bills that were being considered by the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs in September 1973. One of the bills, H.R. 7421, was for the Menominee Restoration Bill, which would repeal the Act terminating federal supervision over the property and members of the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin as a federally recognized sovereign tribe, and restore the tribe to federal recognition and their right to federal services. Another bill being considered, H.R. 3458, was for transferring 40 acres of unused BLM land to trust status for the Bridgeport Indian Colony in Mono County, California. The last bill mentioned, H.R. 6375, was for providing for impounding of livestock in trespass on Indian land and assess fines on owners of trespassing livestock.