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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 397
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session J SENATE1 115-240
TO PROVIDE FOR EQUITABLE COMPENSATION TO THE SPOKANE TRIBE OF
INDIANS OF THE SPOKANE RESERVATION FOR THE USE OF TRIBAL
LAND FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HYDROPOWER BY THE GRAND COULEE
DAM, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
MAY 7, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HOEVEN, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 995]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 995) to provide for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe
of Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal land for
the production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with amendments and recommends the bill, as amended,
do pass.
PURPOSE
Specifically, S. 995 would provide the Spokane Tribe with annual
payments for the past and continued use of tribal lands, which are
now submerged under the reservoir created by the Grand Coulee
Dam. The annual payments are to be based on revenues from the
sale of electric power from the Grand Coulee Dam and the trans-
mission of the power by the Bonneville Power Administration.
BACKGROUND
From 1927 to 1931, the United States Army Corps of Engineers
(Corps), at the direction of Congress, investigated the Columbia
River and its tributaries to identify sites where dams could be con-
structed to produce hydroelectric power at low cost.1 During this
time, the Corps made a number of site recommendations for dam
construction, including the site where the Grand Coulee Dam is
'Federal Power Act of 1920 Sec. 4, 16 U.S.C. Sec. 797 (1920).
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