S. 1513
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act
Sponsor: Maria Cantwell
1 cosponsor
Official summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service.
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.
Text of the bill
Sec. 3.
No impact on treaty rights
Since introduced
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).