Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer Act

Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer Act

This bill administratively transfers approximately 72 acres of specified lands in Washington from the U.S. Forest Service to the Department of the Interior. Interior must take this land into trust for the benefit of the Quinault Indian Nation. Land taken into trust shall be part of the tribe's reservation.

The bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.

The bill requires Interior, for purposes of taking the land into trust, to meet the disclosure requirements for hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants, without otherwise being required to remediate or abate those hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5273 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5273

  To take certain land in the State of Washington into trust for the 
     benefit of the Quinault Indian Nation, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 25, 2024

  Ms. Cantwell (for herself and Mrs. Murray) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To take certain land in the State of Washington into trust for the 
     benefit of the Quinault Indian Nation, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer 
Act''.

SEC. 2. LAND TAKEN INTO TRUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE QUINAULT INDIAN 
              NATION.

    (a) In General.--Subject to valid existing rights, the 
approximately 72 acres of land located in the State of Washington and 
generally depicted as ``Allotment 1157'' on the map entitled ``Quinault 
Indian Nation Land Transfer Act'' and dated February 2, 2024, shall be 
administratively transferred from the Forest Service to the Department 
of the Interior and taken into trust for the benefit of the Quinault 
Indian Nation.
    (b) Land Part of Reservation; Administration.--The land taken into 
trust under subsection (a) shall be--
            (1) part of the Quinault Indian Reservation; and
            (2) administered by the Secretary of the Interior in 
        accordance with the laws and regulations generally applicable 
        to property held in trust by the United States for an Indian 
        Tribe.
    (c) Gaming Prohibited.--The land taken into trust under subsection 
(a) shall not be eligible for gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory 
Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.).
    (d) No Impact on Treaty Rights.--Nothing in this Act affects treaty 
rights under the Treaty between the United States and the Qui-nai-elt 
and Quil-leh-ute Indians, done at the Qui-nai-elt River July 1, 1855, 
and Olympia January 25, 1856 (12 Stat. 971) (commonly known as the 
``Treaty of Olympia'').
    (e) Hazardous Materials.--For purposes of the taking of land into 
trust under subsection (a), the Secretary of the Interior--
            (1) shall meet disclosure requirements for hazardous 
        substances, pollutants, or contaminants under section 120(h) of 
        the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
        Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9620(h)); and
            (2) shall not otherwise be required to remediate or abate 
        those hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants.
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