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H. Rept. 119-287 1 (2025-09-15)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxahra0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP 119TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 119-287 LOWER ELWHA KLALLAM TRIBE PROJECT LANDS RESTORATION ACT SEPTEMBER 15, 2025.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 2388] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2388) to take certain Federal land in the State of Wash- ington into trust for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION The purpose of H.R. 2388 is to take certain Federal land in the State of Washington into trust for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, and for other purposes. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is located within the Olympic Peninsula in northwest Washington and has approximately 984 en- rolled members.1 Today, the tribe's land encompasses around 1,000 acres near the Elwha River.2 The tribe signed the Treaty of Point No Point in 1855, which entitled them to share a small reservation with their rival tribe that was not on their traditional lands of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Discovery Bay.3 After signing the trea- ty, most tribal members opted not to live on their reservation, but rather by the rivers, shorelines, and sites of their ancestral burial grounds.4 Through the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the Fed- eral Government acquired 372 acres of land and assigned it to four- teen families in the tribe. In 1968, the tribe received federal rec- 'Tiller, Veronica E. Velarde. Tiller's Guide to Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations. 3rd ed. Pg. 744. 2Elwha Klallam Tribe. The Strong People. https://www.elwha.org/. 3 Tiller, Veronica E. Velarde. Tiller's Guide to Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations. 3rd ed. Pg. 744. 4Id. 059-006