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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GP
115TH CONGRESS
1st Session
SENATE
Calendar No. 272
REPORT
115-190
KLAMATH TRIBE JUDGMENT FUND REPEAL ACT
DECEMBER 5, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HOEVEN, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1223]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 1223) to repeal the Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Act, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment
and recommends the bill, as amended, do pass.
PURPOSE
The bill, S. 1223, repeals Public Law 89-224, commonly referred
to as the Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Act.1 The bill is intended
to promote the Klamath Tribes' ability to exercise its sovereign au-
thority and discretion over tribal funds. S. 1223 provides greater
flexibility for the Tribes to access and use monies it was awarded
following successful litigation against the United States.
BACKGROUND
On August 13, 1954, Congress passed Public Law 83-587, other-
wise known as the Klamath Termination Act (1954 Act). The 1954
Act established procedures for the sale of a portion of the reserva-
tion land belonging to members of the Klamath and Modoc Tribes
and Yahooskin Band of Snake Indians (collectively, Klamath
'An Act to provide for the disposition of judgment funds of the Klamath and Modoc Tribes
and Yahooskin Band of Snake Indians, and for other purposes, Pub. L. No. 89-224, 79 Stat. 897,
897-898 (1965) (codified at 25 U.S.C. §565 et seq.).
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