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H. Rept. 115-204 1 (2017-07-11)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaiop0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED r U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION 4 115TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-204 WESTERN OREGON TRIBAL FAIRNESS ACT JULY 11, 2017.-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 H.R. 1306] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1306) to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in the State of Oregon, and for other purposes, having consid- ered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of H.R. 1306 is to provide for the conveyance of cer- tain Federal land in the State of Oregon. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION The three tribes that benefit from H.R. 1306 were originally rec- ognized under various treaties or Acts of Congress. In the 1950s and 1960s, Congress enacted a number of laws to terminate the federal reservations and recognition of various tribes, including the Cow Creek, Coos, and Coquille tribes. The federal recognition of the tribes was later restored by Congress, and provision made for the acquisition of lands in trust for their benefit. The tribes, how- ever, do not possess the reservations that had originally been granted to them, and there have been various efforts, including those represented in H.R. 1306, to increase their current trust land base. Various iterations of H.R. 1306 have been considered multiple times in previous Congresses. Nearly identical bills benefiting some 69-006