[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1146 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1146

  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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 23, 2003

Mr. Conrad (for himself and Mr. Dorgan) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  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 is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services for the construction of a rural health care facility 
on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation of the Three Affiliated Tribes, 
North Dakota, $20,000,000.''.
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