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117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-617
KLAMATH TRIBE JUDGMENT FUND REPEAL ACT
DECEMBER 12, 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
[To accompany S. 314]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (S. 314) to repeal the Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Act, hav-
ing considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amend-
ment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of S. 314 is to repeal the Klamath Tribe Judgment
Fund Act.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION 1
Similar to many tribal governments, the Klamath Tribes were
terminated by Congress in the 1950s, in this case through the
Klamath Termination Act of 1954. In addition to termination, the
legislation established procedures for selling over 850,000 acres of
reservation land belonging to members of the Klamath Tribes. In
the termination process, Tribes were required to submit to the Sec-
retary of the Interior a final roll of tribal members within six
months of enactment. The Tribes complied, and on August 13,
1954, tribal leadership submitted a list of 2,133 members.2
At the time of passage, the Klamath Tribes had pending lawsuits
before the now-defunct Indian Claims Commission (ICC) seeking
compensation for the mismanagement or misappropriation of tribal
assets, primarily timber and ranch lands. These claims were not
'See generally S. REP. No. 117-11 (2021), https://www.congress.gov/117/crpt/srptl1/CRPT-
117srptl.pdf.
222 Fed. Reg. 9303 (November 21, 1957).
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