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HR 4362 108th Congress House Public Lands and Natural Resources Armed Forces and National Security Easements Electric power transmission Energy Indian lands Land transfers Law Licenses Military bases Minorities Native Americans Relocation Washington State

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept a parcel of Federal land in the State of Washington in trust for the Nisqually Tribe, to ensure that the acceptance of such land does not adversely affect the Bonneville Power Administration, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 13, 2004 Introduced by: Smith, Adam Democratic · Washington See on congress.gov
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 6, 2004
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 346.
Jul 6, 2004
Committee on Armed Services discharged.
Jul 6, 2004
House Committee on Armed Services Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than July 6, 2004.
Jul 6, 2004
Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 108-582, Part I.
May 19, 2004
Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
May 19, 2004
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
May 13, 2004
Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
May 13, 2004
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to accept, in trust for the Nisqually Tribe, all right, title, and interest of the United States in two specified parcels of real property, including any improvements thereon, consisting of approximately 168 acres at Fort Lewis, Washington, in lieu of the conveyance of the parcels directly to the tribe under the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002. Directs the tribe to continue to comply with provisions of that Act specifying consideration for the transfer in the form of a land exchange. Requires such consideration to be free from all liens, encumbrances, or other interests except those, if any, acceptable to the recipient.

Requires the acceptance of real property in trust for the Nisqually Tribe pursuant to this Act to recognize and preserve to the Bonneville Power Administration, in perpetuity and without the right of revocation, rights in existence at the time of conveyance under a specified permit between the Department of the Army and the Administration with regard to any portion of such property upon which the Administration retains transmission facilities. Provides that the rights recognized and preserved include the right to upgrade those facilities.

Terminates such recognized and preserved permit rights only upon the Administration's relocation of such transmission facilities, and then only with regard to that portion of those facilities that are relocated.

Directs the Secretary, as trustee for the tribe, to grant to the Administration, without consideration and subject to the same rights recognized and preserved, such additional easements across the property accepted in trust for the tribe under this Act as the Administration deems necessary to accommodate relocation or reconnection of transmission facilities from property owned by the tribe and held in trust by the Secretary.

What's happening now July 6, 2004

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 346.

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