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H. Rept. 115-1059 1 (2018-12-03)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxabya0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION Op 115TH CONGRESS REPORT 2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 115-1059 COLUMBIA RIVER IN-LIEU AND TREATY FISHING ACCESS SITES IMPROVEMENT ACT DECEMBER 3, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 669] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (S. 669) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to assess sanitation and safety conditions at Bureau of Indian Affairs facili- ties that were constructed to provide affected Columbia River Trea- ty tribes access to traditional fishing grounds and expend funds on construction of facilities and structures to improve those conditions, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favor- ably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of S. 669 is to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to assess sanitation and safety conditions at Bureau of Indian Af- fairs facilities that were constructed to provide affected Columbia River Treaty tribes access to traditional fishing grounds and ex- pend funds on the construction of facilities and structures to im- prove those conditions. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION Certain Columbia River tribes, through a series of treaties signed with the United States in 1855, established access and secured rights to usual and accustomed fishing areas and ancillary fish- 89-006