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        S.1146

                       One Hundred Eighth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
           the twentieth day of January, two thousand and four


                                 An Act


 
   To implement the recommendations of the Garrison Unit Joint Tribal 
Advisory Committee by providing authorization for the construction of a 
  rural health care facility on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, 
                              North Dakota.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Three Affiliated Tribes Health 
Facility Compensation Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
        (1) in 1949, the United States assumed jurisdiction over more 
    than 150,000 prime acres on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, 
    North Dakota, for the construction of the Garrison Dam and 
    Reservoir;
        (2) the reservoir flooded and destroyed vital infrastructure on 
    the reservation, including a hospital of the Indian Health Service;
        (3) the United States made a commitment to the Three Affiliated 
    Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation to replace the lost 
    infrastructure;
        (4) on May 10, 1985, the Secretary of the Interior established 
    the Garrison Unit Joint Tribal Advisory Committee to examine the 
    effects of the Garrison Dam and Reservoir on the Fort Berthold 
    Indian Reservation;
        (5) the final report of the Committee issued on May 23, 1986, 
    acknowledged the obligation of the Federal Government to replace 
    the infrastructure destroyed by the Federal action;
        (6) the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate--
            (A) acknowledged the recommendations of the final report of 
        the Committee in Senate Report No. 102-250; and
            (B) stated that every effort should be made by the 
        Administration and Congress to provide additional Federal 
        funding to replace the lost infrastructure; and
        (7) on August 30, 2001, the Chairman of the Three Affiliated 
    Tribes testified before the Committee on Indian Affairs of the 
    Senate that the promise to replace the lost infrastructure, 
    particularly the hospital, still had not been kept.
SEC. 3. RURAL HEALTH CARE FACILITY, FORT BERTHOLD INDIAN RESERVATION, 
NORTH DAKOTA.
    The Three Affiliated Tribes and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Equitable 
Compensation Act is amended--
        (1) in section 3504 (106 Stat. 4732), by adding at the end the 
    following:
    ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this section.''; 
and
        (2) by striking section 3511 (106 Stat. 4739) and inserting the 
    following:

``SEC. 3511. RURAL HEALTH CARE FACILITY, FORT BERTHOLD INDIAN 
              RESERVATION, NORTH DAKOTA.

    ``There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services $20,000,000 for the construction of, and such 
sums as are necessary for other expenses relating to, a rural health 
care facility on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation of the Three 
Affiliated Tribes, North Dakota.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.