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Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Equitable Compensation Act

3/14/2024, 12:48 PM

Congressional Summary of S 1448

Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Equitable Compensation Act - (Section 5) Establishes the Spokane Tribe of Indians Recovery Trust Fund. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit $53 million into the Fund.

Requires payments from the Fund to the Spokane Business Council in compensation for the use of tribal lands for the generation of hydropower from the Grand Coulee Dam. (The Spokane Business Council is the Spokane Tribe's governing body.)

Requires the Council to prepare a plan for the use of those payments to promote: (1) economic development; (2) infrastructure development; (3) educational, health, recreational, and social welfare objectives of the Tribe and its members; or (4) any combination of those activities.

(Sec. 6) Directs the Bonneville Power Administration to make annual payments under the Colville Settlement Agreement to the Spokane Tribe.

Requires the Administration to: (1) make commensurate cost reductions in expenditures on an annual basis to recover each payment to the Tribe, and (2) include any such cost reduction in its annual budget.

(Sec. 7) Specifies the tax treatment of payments made to the Council or Tribe and the interest and income generated by those payments.

(Sec. 9) Provides that the deposit of amounts in the Fund extinguishes all monetary claims that the Tribe may have against the United States to a fair share of the annual hydropower revenues generated by the Grand Coulee Dam project for the past and continued use of the Tribe's land to produce hydropower at Grand Coulee Dam.

(Sec. 10) Declares that nothing in this Act establishes any precedent or is binding on the Southwestern Power Administration, Western Area Power Administration, or Southeastern Power Administration.

Current Status of Bill S 1448

Bill S 1448 is currently in the status of Bill Introduced since August 1, 2013. Bill S 1448 was introduced during Congress 113 and was introduced to the Senate on August 1, 2013.  Bill S 1448's most recent activity was Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 448. as of June 26, 2014

Bipartisan Support of Bill S 1448

Total Number of Sponsors
1
Democrat Sponsors
1
Republican Sponsors
0
Unaffiliated Sponsors
0
Total Number of Cosponsors
2
Democrat Cosponsors
2
Republican Cosponsors
0
Unaffiliated Cosponsors
0

Policy Area and Potential Impact of Bill S 1448

Primary Policy Focus

Native Americans

Potential Impact Areas

- Alternative and renewable resources
- Dams and canals
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Federal-Indian relations
- Government trust funds
- Indian claims
- Indian lands and resources rights
- Indian social and development programs
- Washington State

Alternate Title(s) of Bill S 1448

Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Equitable Compensation Act
A bill to provide for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal land for the production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, and for other purposes.
Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Equitable Compensation Act
Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Equitable Compensation Act

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