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                    119TH CONGRESS                                    REPT.119-398
                       1st Session j HOUSE   OF REPRESENTATIVES           Part 1





                       SOUTHCENTRAL FOUNDATION LAND TRANSFER ACT
                                                OF  2025


                    DECEMBER 9, 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. 3620]

                             [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]

                      The Committee  on Natural  Resources, to whom  was referred the
                    bill (H.R. 3620) to provide for the conveyance of certain property
                    to the Southcentral Foundation located in Anchorage, Alaska, 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. 3620 is to provide for the conveyance of cer-
                    tain property to the Southcentral Foundation located in Anchorage,
                    Alaska, and for other purposes.
                                BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
                      Southcentral  Foundation  (SCF)  is  the Alaska   Native  tribal
                    health organization designated by Cook Inlet Region, Inc. and elev-
                    en federally recognized tribes (Aleut Community of St. Paul Island,
                    Igiugig, Iliamna, Kokhanok,  McGrath,   Newhalen,  Nikolai, Non-
                    dalton, Pedro Bay, Telida, and Takotna) to provide healthcare serv-
                    ices to beneficiaries of the Indian Health Service (IHS) under a 638
                    self-governance compact.1

                    1Testimony of Dr. Donna Galbreath, Senior Medical Director, Southcentral Foundation, Be-
                    fore the H. Appropriations Subcomm. on Interior, Env't & Related Agencies, 118th Congress.
                    (March 9, 2023) (statement of Dr. Donna Galbreath), https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/
                    house/115465/documents/HHRG-118-AP06-Wstate-GalbreathD-20230309.pdf.


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