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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-507
OREGON TRIBAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT
JANUARY 10, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1285]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (S. 1285) to allow the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Ump-
qua, and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated Tribes of the Grand
Ronde Community of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz In-
dians of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the
Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, the Klamath Tribes,
and the Burns Paiute Tribes to lease or transfer certain lands, hav-
ing considered the same, report favorably thereon without amend-
ment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of S. 1285 is to allow the Confederated Tribes of
Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated
Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, the Confederated
Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs, the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians,
the Klamath Tribes, and the Burns Paiute Tribes to lease or trans-
fer certain lands.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Indian Trade and Intercourse Act reserves to the United
States the exclusive right to acquire Indian lands.1 The Act was in-
tended to protect Indian tribes by preventing the loss of their
lands, except by treaty. It does so by preventing the transfer, sale,
lease, or other conveyance of land owned by an Indian tribe to
125 U.S.C. 177.
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