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One Hundred Sixteenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE FIRST SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and nineteen 

An Act 

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to assess sanitation and safety conditions 

at Bureau of Indian Affairs facilities that were constructed to provide affected 

Columbia River Treaty tribes access to traditional fishing grounds and expend 

funds on construction of facilities and structures to improve those conditions, 

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 ‘‘Columbia River In-Lieu and 

Treaty Fishing Access Sites Improvement Act’’. 

SEC. 2. SANITATION AND SAFETY CONDITIONS AT CERTAIN BUREAU 

OF INDIAN AFFAIRS FACILITIES. 

(a) ASSESSMENT OF CONDITIONS.—The Secretary of the Interior, 

acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, in consultation with 

the affected Columbia River Treaty tribes, may assess current sanitation and safety conditions on lands held by the United States 

for the benefit of the affected Columbia River Treaty tribes, 

including all permanent Federal structures and improvements on 

those lands, that were set aside to provide affected Columbia River 

Treaty tribes access to traditional fishing grounds— 

(1) in accordance with the Act of March 2, 1945 (59 Stat. 

10, chapter 19) (commonly known as the ‘‘River and Harbor 

Act of 1945’’); or 

(2) in accordance with title IV of Public Law 100–581 

(102 Stat. 2944). 

(b) EXCLUSIVE AUTHORIZATION; CONTRACTS.—The Secretary of 

the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs— 

(1) subject to paragraph (2)(B), shall be the only Federal 

agency authorized to carry out the activities described in this 

section; and 

(2) may delegate the authority to carry out activities 

described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (d)— 

(A) through one or more contracts entered into with 

an Indian Tribe or Tribal organization under the Indian 

Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 

U.S.C. 5301 et seq.); or 

(B) to include other Federal agencies that have relevant 

expertise. 

(c) DEFINITION OF AFFECTED COLUMBIA RIVER TREATY TRIBES.— 

In this section, the term ‘‘affected Columbia River Treaty tribes’’ 

means the Nez Perce Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla 

Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs 
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Reservation of Oregon, and the Confederated Tribes and Bands 

of the Yakama Nation. 

(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized 

to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior $11,000,000 

for the period of fiscal years 2020 through 2025, to remain available 

until expended— 

(1) for improvements to existing structures and infrastructure to improve sanitation and safety conditions assessed under 

subsection (a); and 

(2) to improve access to electricity, sewer, and water infrastructure, where feasible, to reflect needs for sanitary and 

safe use of facilities referred to in subsection (a). 

SEC. 3. STUDY OF ASSESSMENT AND IMPROVEMENT ACTIVITIES. 

The Comptroller General of the United States, in consultation 

with the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate, shall— 

(1) conduct a study to evaluate whether the sanitation 

and safety conditions on lands held by the United States for 

the benefit of the affected Columbia River Treaty tribes (as 

defined in section 2(c)) have improved as a result of the activities authorized in section 2; and 

(2) prepare and submit to the Committee on Indian Affairs 

of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of 

the House of Representatives a report containing the results 

of that study. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.