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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-564
OREGON TRIBAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT
FEBRUARY 15, 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 H.R. 3225]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3225) 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, and the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians to
lease or transfer certain lands, having considered the same, report
favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill
do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 3225 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, and the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indi-
ans to lease or transfer certain lands.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
A law commonly called the Indian Trade and Intercourse Act re-
serves to the United States the exclusive right to acquire Indian
lands.1 The Act was intended to protect Indian tribes by preventing
the loss of their lands, except by treaty. Specifically, the Act pro-
hibits the transfer, sale, lease, or other conveyance of land owned
125 U.S.C. 177.
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