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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 115-1059
COLUMBIA RIVER IN-LIEU AND TREATY FISHING ACCESS
SITES IMPROVEMENT ACT
DECEMBER 3, 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. 669]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (S. 669) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to assess
sanitation and safety conditions at Bureau of Indian Affairs facili-
ties that were constructed to provide affected Columbia River Trea-
ty tribes access to traditional fishing grounds and expend funds on
construction of facilities and structures to improve those conditions,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do
pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of S. 669 is to authorize the Secretary of the Interior
to assess sanitation and safety conditions at Bureau of Indian Af-
fairs facilities that were constructed to provide affected Columbia
River Treaty tribes access to traditional fishing grounds and ex-
pend funds on the construction of facilities and structures to im-
prove those conditions.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Certain Columbia River tribes, through a series of treaties signed
with the United States in 1855, established access and secured
rights to usual and accustomed fishing areas and ancillary fish-
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