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INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-599
ADVANCING EQUALITY FOR WABANAKI NATIONS ACT
DECEMBER 7, 2022.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 6707]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 6707) to amend the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act
of 1980 to advance equality for Wabanaki nations, and for other
purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon
with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do
pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Advancing Equality for Wabanaki Nations Act.
SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF CERTAIN LAWS.
(a) APPLICATION OF STATE LAws.-The Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of
1980 (Public Law 96-420) is amended-
(1) in section 3-
(A) in subsection (m), by striking and at the end;
(B) in subsection (n), by striking the period and inserting ; and; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
(o) 'Mi'kmaq Nation' means the sole successor to the Micmac Nation as con-
stituted in aboriginal times in what is now the State of Maine, and all its prede-
cessors and successors in interest, and which is represented, as of the date of
enactment of this subsection, as to lands within the United States, by the
Mi'kmaq Council.; and
(2) in section 6-
(A) in subsection (a), by striking provided in section 8(e) and section
5(d)(4) and inserting otherwise provided in this Act; and
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