Introduced:
Mar 26, 2025
Policy Area:
Native Americans
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Sep 15, 2025
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 244.
Summaries (1)
Introduced in House
- Mar 26, 2025
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<p><strong>Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer Act</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>The bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.</p><p>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.</p>
Actions (11)
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 244.
Type: Calendars
| Source: House floor actions
| Code: H12410
Sep 15, 2025
Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-288.
Type: Committee
| Source: House floor actions
| Code: H12200
Sep 15, 2025
Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-288.
Type: Committee
| Source: Library of Congress
| Code: 5000
Sep 15, 2025
Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
Type: Committee
| Source: House committee actions
| Code: H19000
Jun 25, 2025
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Type: Committee
| Source: House committee actions
| Code: H15001
Jun 25, 2025
Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs Discharged
Type: Committee
| Source: House committee actions
| Code: H25000
Jun 25, 2025
Subcommittee Hearings Held
Type: Committee
| Source: House committee actions
| Code: H21000
Apr 30, 2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs.
Type: Committee
| Source: House committee actions
| Code: H11000
Apr 23, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Type: IntroReferral
| Source: House floor actions
| Code: H11100
Mar 26, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral
| Source: Library of Congress
| Code: Intro-H
Mar 26, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral
| Source: Library of Congress
| Code: 1000
Mar 26, 2025
Subjects (5)
Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Native Americans
(Policy Area)
Washington State
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2389 Reported in House
(RH) ]
<DOC>
Union Calendar No. 244
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2389
[Report No. 119-288]
To take certain land in the State of Washington into trust for the
benefit of the Quinault Indian Nation, and for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 26, 2025
Ms. Randall introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Natural Resources
September 15, 2025
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union
and ordered to be printed
_______________________________________________________________________
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,
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2389 Reported in House
(RH) ]
<DOC>
Union Calendar No. 244
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2389
[Report No. 119-288]
To take certain land in the State of Washington into trust for the
benefit of the Quinault Indian Nation, and for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 26, 2025
Ms. Randall introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Natural Resources
September 15, 2025
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union
and ordered to be printed
_______________________________________________________________________
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.
This Act may be cited as the ``Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer
Act''.
SEC. 2.
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
(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.
(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.
Union Calendar No. 244
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2389
[Report No. 119-288]
_______________________________________________________________________
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.
_______________________________________________________________________
September 15, 2025
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union
and ordered to be printed