[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1448 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1448

 To amend the Act of August 9, 1955, to authorize the Coquille Indian 
  Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the Confederated 
Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw, the Klamath Tribes, and 
  the Burns Paiute Tribe to obtain 99-year lease authority for trust 
                                 land.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 14, 2009

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Act of August 9, 1955, to authorize the Coquille Indian 
  Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the Confederated 
Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw, the Klamath Tribes, and 
  the Burns Paiute Tribe to obtain 99-year lease authority for trust 
                                 land.

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

SECTION 1. LEASES OF RESTRICTED LAND.

    Subsection (a) of the first section of the Act of August 9, 1955 
(25 U.S.C. 415(a)), is amended in the second sentence by inserting 
``land held in trust for the Coquille Indian Tribe, land held in trust 
for the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, land held in trust for 
the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, 
land held in trust for the Klamath Tribes, and land held in trust for 
the Burns Paiute Tribe,'' after ``lands held in trust for the 
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon,''.
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