IB 
Union Calendar No. 265 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1162 
[Report No. 112–387] 
To provide the Quileute Indian Tribe Tsunami and Flood Protection, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 17, 2011 
Mr. DICKS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Natural Resources 
FEBRUARY 3, 2012 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 17, 2011] 
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A BILL 
To provide the Quileute Indian Tribe Tsunami and Flood 
Protection, and for other purposes. 
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(B) most of the Reservation village of La 
Push is located within the coastal flood plain, 
with the Tribe’s administrative buildings, school, 
elder center, and housing all located in a tsu-
nami zone; 
(C) for many decades, the Tribe and the 
Park have had a dispute over the Reservation 
boundaries along the Quillayute River; 
(D) in recent years, this dispute has inten-
sified as the Tribe has faced an urgent need for 
additional lands for housing, schools, and other 
Tribe 
purposes 
outside 
the 
tsunami 
and 
Quillayute River flood zones; and 
(E) the lack of a settlement of this dispute 
threatens to adversely impact the public’s exist-
ing and future recreational use of several attrac-
tions in the Park that are accessed by the 
public’s use of Reservation lands. 
(2) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are— 
(A) to resolve the longstanding dispute 
along portions of the northern boundary of the 
Quileute Indian Reservation; 
(B) to clarify public use and access to 
Olympic National Park lands that are contig-
uous to the Reservation; 
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(C) to provide the Quileute Indian Tribe 
with approximately 275 acres of land currently 
located within the Park and approximately 510 
acres of land along the Quillayute River, also 
within the Park; 
(D) to adjust the wilderness boundaries to 
provide the Quileute Indian Tribe Tsunami and 
flood protection; and 
(E) through the land conveyance, to grant 
the Tribe access to land outside of tsunami and 
Quillayute River flood zones, and link existing 
Reservation land with Tribe land to the east of 
the Park. 
(c) REDESIGNATION OF FEDERAL WILDERNESS LAND, 
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK CONVEYANCE.— 
(1) REDESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS.—Certain 
Federal land in the Park that was designated as part 
of the Olympic Wilderness under title I of the Wash-
ington Park Wilderness Act of 1988 (Public Law 
100–668; 102 Stat. 3961; 16 U.S.C. 1132 note) and 
comprises approximately 222 acres, as generally de-
picted on the Map is hereby no longer designated as 
wilderness, and is no longer a component of the Na-
tional Wilderness Preservation System under the Wil-
derness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.). 
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(2) LANDS TO BE HELD IN TRUST.—All right, 
title, and interest of the United States in and to the 
approximately 510 acres generally depicted on the 
Map as ‘‘Northern Lands’’, and the approximately 
275 acres generally depicted on the Map as ‘‘Southern 
Lands’’, are declared to be held in trust by the United 
States for the benefit of the Tribe without any further 
action by the Secretary. 
(3) BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT; SURVEY.—The Sec-
retary shall— 
(A) adjust the boundaries of Olympic Wil-
derness and the Park to reflect the change in sta-
tus of Federal lands under paragraph (2); and 
(B) as soon as practicable after the date of 
enactment of this section, conduct a survey, de-
fining the boundaries of the Reservation and 
Park, and of the Federal lands taken into and 
held in trust that are adjacent to the north and 
south bank of the Quillayute River as depicted 
on the Map as ‘‘Northern Lands’’. 
(4) LAW APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN LAND.—The 
land taken into trust under this subsection shall not 
be subject to any requirements for valuation, ap-
praisal, or equalization under any Federal law. 
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(d) NON-FEDERAL LAND CONVEYANCE.—Upon com-
pletion and acceptance of an environmental hazard assess-
ment, the Secretary shall take into trust for the benefit of 
the Tribe certain non-Federal land owned by the Tribe, con-
sisting of approximately 184 acres, as depicted on the Map 
as ‘‘Eastern Lands’’, such non-Federal land shall be des-
ignated as part of the Reservation. 
(e) MAP REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) AVAILABILITY
OF
INITIAL
MAP.—The Sec-
retary shall make the Map available for public inspec-
tion in appropriate offices of the National Park Serv-
ice. The Map shall also depict any non-Federal land 
currently owned by the Tribe which is being placed 
in trust under this section. 
(2) REVISED MAP.—Not later than one year after 
the date of the land transaction in subsections (d) and 
(e), the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and 
Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Rep-
resentatives a revised map that depicts— 
(A) the Federal and non-Federal land taken 
into trust under this section and the Second 
Beach Trail; and 
(B) the actual boundaries of the Park as 
modified by the land conveyance. 
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(f) JURISDICTION.—The land conveyed to the Tribe by 
this section shall be designated as part of the Quileute Res-
ervation and placed in the following jurisdictions: 
(1) TRUST LAND.—The same Federal, State, and 
Tribe jurisdiction as on all other trust lands within 
the Reservation, so long as the exercise of such juris-
diction does not conflict with the terms of the ease-
ment described in subsection (g) below. 
(2) TRIBE
JURISDICTION.—Park visitors shall 
remain subject to the jurisdiction of the Tribe while 
on the Second Beach parking lot, on those portions of 
the Second Beach Trail on the Reservation, and Ri-
alto Spit, to the same extent that such visitors are 
subject to the Tribe’s jurisdiction elsewhere on the 
Reservation. 
(g) GRANT OF EASEMENT IN CONNECTION WITH LAND 
CONVEYANCE.— 
(1) EASEMENT
REQUIRED.—The conveyances 
under subsection (c)(2) shall be subject to the condi-
tions described in this subsection. 
(2) REQUIRED RIGHTS UNDER EASEMENT.—Any 
easement granted under this subsection must contain 
the following express terms: 
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