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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 115-1037
NATIVE AMERICAN BUSINESS INCUBATORS PROGRAM
ACT
NOVEMBER 20, 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. 607]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (S. 607) to establish a business incubators program within the
Department of the Interior to promote economic development in In-
dian reservation communities, having considered the same, report
favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill
do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of S. 607 is to establish a business incubators pro-
gram within the Department of the Interior to promote economic
development in Indian reservation communities.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
For decades, Native American1 communities have struggled with
a wide array of difficulties relating to economic development on
their land, including poor access to capital, remote and rural loca-
tions, and degradation of the local infrastructure. Only around half
of all Native Americans (16 or older) residing on or near tribal com-
munities have jobs, and a quarter of Native families earn an in-
come that is below the federal poverty line.2
Today, approximately 56 million acres of land are held in trust
by the United States (through the Department of the Interior) for
'In this report, the terms Native American, Native, and Indian are used interchange-
ably.
22013 American Indian Population and Labor Force Report, Department of the Interior.
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