Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act

Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act

This bill takes approximately 1,082.63 acres of specified lands in Washington into trust for the benefit of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. Land taken into trust shall be part of the tribe's reservation.

Further, the bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1513 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1513

To take certain Federal land in the State of Washington into trust for 
         the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 29, 2025

  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 Federal land in the State of Washington into trust for 
         the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, 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 ``Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project 
Lands Restoration Act''.

SEC. 2. LAND TAKEN INTO TRUST FOR THE LOWER ELWHA KLALLAM TRIBE.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Reservation.--The term ``Reservation'' means the Lower 
        Elwha Indian Reservation, also known as the Lower Elwha 
        Reservation, located in the State of Washington.
            (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior.
            (3) Tribe.--The term ``Tribe'' means the Lower Elwha Tribal 
        Community, also known as the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, located 
        in the State of Washington.
    (b) Land Held in Trust.--
            (1) In general.--Subject to all valid existing rights of 
        the United States, the approximately 1,082.63 acres of Federal 
        land generally depicted as ``NPS Parcels to be Transferred to 
        Tribe'' on the map entitled ``Olympic National Park Proposed 
        Transfer of Elwha Lands'', numbered 149/178020, and dated 
        December 2021 is hereby taken into and held in trust by the 
        United States for the benefit of the Tribe.
            (2) Inclusion in reservation.--The land taken into trust 
        under paragraph (1) shall be part of the Reservation.
            (3) Law applicable to certain land.--The land taken into 
        trust under paragraph (1) shall not be subject to any 
        requirements for valuation, appraisal, or equalization under 
        any Federal law.
    (c) Land Management.--Of the land taken into and held in trust 
under subsection (b)(1), the portion of the Elwha River subject to 
section 3(c)(3) of the Elwha River Ecosystem and Fisheries Restoration 
Act (Public Law 102-495; 106 Stat. 3175) shall be managed in accordance 
with subsection (b) of the first section of the Wild and Scenic Rivers 
Act (16 U.S.C. 1271), except for necessary modifications under section 
3(c)(3) of the Elwha River Ecosystem and Fisheries Restoration Act 
(Public Law 102-495; 106 Stat. 3175).
    (d) Map and Survey.--
            (1) Boundary adjustment; survey.--As soon as practicable 
        after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 
        conduct a survey to define the boundaries of the land taken 
        into and held in trust under subsection (b)(1).
            (2) Adjustments.--The Secretary may--
                    (A) make minor boundary adjustments to the land 
                taken into and held in trust under subsection (b)(1); 
                and
                    (B) correct any minor errors in any map, acreage 
                estimate, or description of that land.
    (e) Gaming Prohibition.--No land taken into and held in trust for 
the benefit of the Tribe under this section shall be considered Indian 
lands for the purpose of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 
2701 et seq.).

SEC. 3. NO IMPACT ON TREATY RIGHTS.

    Nothing in this Act affects treaty rights under the Treaty between 
the United States of America and the S'Klallams Indians, concluded at 
Point no Point, Washington Territory, January 26, 1855 (12 Stat. 933) 
(commonly known as the ``Treaty of Point No Point'').
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