3.0.0 2494 2023-01-11T13:15:24Z 2023-01-11T13:15:24Z Senate S S 2007-12-17 110 slia00 Indian Affairs Committee Senate Other Reported by 2008-09-09T22:01:06Z Markup by 2008-06-19T19:22:38Z Hearings by 2008-05-15T18:07:38Z Referred to 2007-12-17T23:38:40Z S. Rept. 110-450 Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act 110 6547 HR 2008-07-17 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. Related bill CRS 2008-09-09 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 948. Calendars 2008-09-09 slia00 Indian Affairs Committee Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Dorgan without amendment. With written report No. 110-450. Committee 2008-09-09 Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Dorgan without amendment. With written report No. 110-450. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress slia00 Indian Affairs Committee 2008-06-19 slia00 Indian Affairs Committee Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. Committee 2008-05-15 slia00 Indian Affairs Committee Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-469. Committee 2007-12-17 slia00 Indian Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. IntroReferral 2007-12-17 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C000127 Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] Maria Cantwell D WA N M001111 Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] Patty Murray D WA 2007-12-17 True I000025 Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] DANIEL INOUYE D HI KEN 2008-01-24 False 2008-07-24T04:00:00Z S. 2494, Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act http://www.cbo.gov/publication/20104 <p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on June 19, 2008</p> 2008-07-24T04:00:00Z S. 2494, Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20104 Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on June 19, 2008 Native Americans Dams and canals Electric power generation and transmission Government trust funds Indian claims Indian lands and resources rights Washington State Native Americans 00 2007-12-17 Introduced in Senate 2008-02-22T21:11:38Z Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act - Establishes in the Treasury the Spokane Tribe of Indians Settlement Fund.

Requires the payment of compensation to the Spokane Business Council for the use of tribal lands for the generation of hydropower from the Grand Coulee Dam.

Requires the use of such funds, in part, for a Cultural Resource Repository and Interpretive Center concerning the culture and history of the Spokane Tribe.

Directs the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration to make specified settlement payments to the Spokane Tribe.

Allows payments made to the Spokane Business Council or Spokane Tribe to be used or invested by the Business Council in the same manner and for the same purposes as other Spokane Tribal governmental funds.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer administrative jurisdiction from the Bureau of Reclamation to the Bureau of Indian Affairs over certain land located within the exterior boundaries of the Spokane Indian Reservation.

Provides that payments by the Secretary and the Administrator and restoration of ownership of land in trust constitute full satisfaction of the claim of the Spokane Tribe to a fair share of the annual hydropower revenues generated by the Grand Coulee Dam project for the past and continued use of land of the Spokane Tribe for the production of hydropower at Grand Coulee Dam.

]]> 80 2008-09-09 Reported to Senate without amendment 2008-12-01T16:28:02Z (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act - Establishes in the Treasury the Spokane Tribe of Indians Settlement Fund to compensate the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation in the state of Washington for the use of its land for the generation of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) make payments to the Fund in FY2008-FY2012; (2) pay compensation from the Fund to the Spokane Business Council.

Requires the use of such funds for a Cultural Resource Repository and Interpretive Center to house, preserve, and protect the burial remains and funerary and cultural resources affected by the operation of the Grand Coulee Dam and to provide a facility to promote the culture and history of the Tribe. Allocates funds to the Council for resource development programs, credit programs, scholarship programs, or reserve, investment, and economic development programs.

Directs the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration to make specified settlement payments to the Tribe.

Allows payments made to the Council or Tribe to be used or invested by the Council in the same manner and for the same purposes as other Spokane Tribal governmental funds.

Directs the Secretary to transfer from the Bureau of Reclamation to the Bureau of Indian Affairs administrative jurisdiction over certain land located within the exterior boundaries of the Spokane Indian Reservation established by the Executive Order of January 18, 1881. Provides that all land transferred by the Secretary shall be held in trust for the benefit and use of the Tribe and shall remain part of the Spokane Indian Reservation. Grants the United States a perpetual easement over land transferred by the Secretary to carry out the Columbia Basin Project under the Columbia Basin Project Act.

Provides that payments by the Secretary and the Administrator and restoration of ownership of land in trust constitute full satisfaction of the claim of the Tribe to a fair share of the annual hydropower revenues generated by the Grand Coulee Dam project for the past and continued use of land of the Tribe for the production of hydropower at Grand Coulee Dam.

Authorizes appropriations.

Provides that nothing in this Act establishes any precedent or is binding on the Southwestern Power Administration, Western Area Power Administration, or the Southeastern Power Administration.

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