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Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act

Introduced: July 11, 2011 Introduced by: Cantwell, Maria Democratic · Washington See on congress.gov
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Sep 13, 2012
Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Oct 20, 2011
Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-492.
Jul 11, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Jul 11, 2011
Introduced in Senate
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Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act - Establishes the Spokane Tribe of Indians Settlement Fund.

Requires the payment of compensation to the Spokane Business Council for the use of tribal lands for the generation of hydropower from the Grand Coulee Dam.

Requires the use of such funds, in part, for a Cultural Resource Repository and Interpretive Center concerning the culture and history of the Spokane Tribe.

Directs the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration to make specified settlement payments to the Tribe.

Allows payments made to the Spokane Business Council or Tribe to be used or invested by the Business Council in the same manner and for the same purposes as other Spokane Tribal governmental funds.

Confirms the Secretary of the Interior's delegation of authority to the Tribe over land located within the exterior boundaries of the Spokane Indian Reservation.

Provides that the Secretary's delegation of authority over such lands and the payments by the Secretary and the Administrator constitute full satisfaction of the claim of the Spokane Tribe to a fair share of the annual hydropower revenues generated by the Grand Coulee Dam project for the past and continued use of the Tribe's land to produce hydropower at Grand Coulee Dam.

What's happening now September 13, 2012

Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

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Murray, Patty
Washington · Jul 11, 2011
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1345: Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-1345/
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"S. 1345: Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-1345/.
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