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Union Calendar No. 346
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4362
[Report No. 108–582, Part I] 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept a parcel of Federal 
land in the State of Washington in trust for the Nisqually Tribe, to 
ensure that the acceptance of such land does not adversely affect the 
Bonneville Power Administration, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 13, 2004
Mr. SMITH of Washington introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 
Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
JULY 6, 2004
Reported from the Committee on Resources 
JULY 6, 2004
Referral to the Committee on Armed Services extended for a period ending 
not later than July 6, 2004
JULY 6, 2004
The Committee on Armed Services discharged; committed to the Committee 
of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept a parcel 
of Federal land in the State of Washington in trust
for the Nisqually Tribe, to ensure that the acceptance 
of such land does not adversely affect the Bonneville 
Power Administration, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. ACCEPTANCE OF ADDITIONAL TRUST LANDS 
ON BEHALF OF NISQUALLY TRIBE, WASH-
INGTON. 
(a) AUTHORITY TO ACCEPT.—The Secretary of the 
Interior may accept, in trust for the Nisqually Tribe, a 
federally recognized Indian tribe whose tribal lands are lo-
cated within the State of Washington, all right, title, and 
interest of the United States in and to two parcels of real 
property, including any improvements thereon, consisting 
of approximately 168 acres at Fort Lewis, Washington. 
The acceptance by the Secretary of the parcels in trust 
for the Nisqually Tribe shall be in lieu of conveyance of 
the parcels directly to the tribe under section 2837 of the 
Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2002 (division B of Public Law 107–107; 115 Stat. 1315). 
(b) CONSIDERATION.—As consideration for the real 
property described in subsection (a), the Nisqually Tribe 
shall continue to comply with subsection (b) of such sec-
tion 2837, except that the fee title acquired by the tribe 
and conveyed under such subsection must be free from all
liens, encumbrances or other interests, other than those, 
if any, acceptable to the recipient. 
(c) TREATMENT
OF EXISTING PERMIT RIGHTS; 
GRANT OF EASEMENT.—(1) The acceptance of real prop-
erty in trust for the Nisqually Tribe under subsection (a) 
shall recognize and preserve to the Bonneville Power Ad-
ministration, in perpetuity and without the right of rev-
ocation except as provided in paragraph (2), rights in ex-
istence at the time of the conveyance under the permit 
dated February 4, 1949, as amended January 4, 1952, 
between the Department of the Army and the Bonneville 
Power Administration with respect to any portion of the 
property described in subsection (a) upon which the Bon-
neville Power Administration retains transmission facili-
ties. The rights recognized and preserved include the right 
to upgrade those transmission facilities. 
(2) The permit rights recognized and preserved under 
paragraph (1) shall terminate only upon the Bonneville 
Power Administration’s relocation of the transmission fa-
cilities referred to in paragraph (1), and then only with 
respect to that portion of those transmission facilities that 
are relocated. 
(3) The Secretary of the Interior, as trustee for the 
Nisqually Tribe, shall grant to the Bonneville Power Ad-
ministration, without consideration and subject to the
same rights recognized and preserved in paragraph (1), 
such additional easements across the property described 
in subsection (a) as the Bonneville Power Administration 
considers necessary to accommodate the relocation or re-
connection of Bonneville Power Administration trans-
mission facilities from property owned by the Tribe and 
held by the Secretary of the Interior in trust for the Tribe.
Union Calendar No. 346
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4362
[Report No. 108–582, Part I] 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept 
a parcel of Federal land in the State of Wash-
ington in trust for the Nisqually Tribe, to ensure 
that the acceptance of such land does not ad-
versely affect the Bonneville Power Administra-
tion, and for other purposes. 
JULY 6, 2004
Reported from the Committee on Resources 
Referral to the Committee on Armed Services extended 
for a period ending not later than July 6, 2004
The Committee on Armed Services discharged; committed 
to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of 
the Union and ordered to be printed