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H. Rept. 119-288 1 (2025-09-15)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxahrb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP 119TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 119-288 QUINAULT INDIAN NATION LAND TRANSFER 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. 2389] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2389) to take certain land in the State of Washington into trust for the benefit of the Quinault Indian Nation, 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. 2389 is to take certain land in the State of Washington into trust for the benefit of the Quinault Indian Na- tion, and for other purposes. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION The Quinault Indian Nation is located on the western coast of Washington state in the southwestern corner of the Olympic Penin- sula, bordered by the Pacific Ocean.1 The tribe has an estimated enrollment of 2,700 members.2 Its reservation encompasses 208,150 acres of land.3 The Treaty of Olympia, or the Quinault Treaty, was agreed upon by the United States and the Qui-nai-elt and Quil-leh-ute tribes be- tween 1855 and 1856. Through the treaty, the Quinault Indian Tribe ceded their lands and, in return, received tracts that became the Quinault Indian Reservation.4 However, the Treaty of Olympia 'Tiller, Veronica E. Velarde. Tiller's Guide to Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations. 3rd ed. Pg. 762. 2Id. 3Quinault Indian Nation. About Us. https://quinaultindiannation.com/171/About-Us. 4Makah Indian Tribe v. Quileute Indian Tribe. 873 F.3d 1157. (2017). 59-006