S 1513
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Takes about 1,082.63 acres of federal land in Washington State into trust for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and makes that land part of the tribe's reservation.
Official title: Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act
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Senate
Introduced
29-APR-2025
Referred
29-APR-2025
Approved by committee
20-MAY-2026
Reported
14-SEP-2026
On the calendar
14-SEP-2026
- Takes about 1,082.63 acres of National Park Service land shown on a December 2021 map into trust for the tribe and adds it to the Lower Elwha Reservation.
- Exempts the land from federal valuation, appraisal, and equalization requirements and bars it from being treated as Indian lands under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
- Requires the Interior Secretary to survey the land's boundaries and allows minor boundary and map corrections.
- Manages the Elwha River portion under Wild and Scenic Rivers Act standards, with necessary modifications, and leaves treaty rights under the Treaty of Point No Point unaffected.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in Senate" (29-APR-2025); the text has changed since (Reported to Senate, 14-SEP-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Indian Affairs Committee (Senate)
Native Americans
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