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INFORMATION .
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-265
GRAND RONDE RESERVATION ACT AMENDMENT OF 2023
NOVEMBER 3, 2023.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 1722]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1722) to amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act, and
for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 1722 is to amend the Grand Ronde Reserva-
tion Act, and for other purposes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 1722 would amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act to re-
flect that the Grand Ronde tribe's extinguishment of land claims
against the United States only applies to an 84-acre parcel of land,
known as the Thompson Strip. The bill would also add a gaming
prohibition for any future land awarded as part of a land claims
settlement and prohibits the use of money received as part of a
land claim settlement to purchase land for gaming purposes pursu-
ant to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.1
The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Or-
egon were among several tribes in Western Oregon that entered
into treaties with the United States in the 1850s.2 In 1857, Presi-
125 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.
2Treaties Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. https://www.grandronde.org/history-culture/
history/treaties/.
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