Title: Tribal Uranium Exposure Treatment Enhancement Act of 2018
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
Tribal Uranium Exposure Treatment Enhancement Act of 2018
This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 1961 to authorize the Department of Agriculture to award grants for cancer treatments to Indians who reside on reservations where uranium mining or milling occurred and whose health was impacted by the mining or milling.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5128 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5128

  To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to award grants to tribal 
 health programs located on reservations impacted by uranium mining or 
                    milling, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 2018

   Mr. O'Halleran (for himself and Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New 
   Mexico) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to award grants to tribal 
 health programs located on reservations impacted by uranium mining or 
                    milling, 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 ``Tribal Uranium Exposure Treatment 
Enhancement Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS TO TRIBAL HEALTH PROGRAMS ON RESERVATIONS IMPACTED BY 
              URANIUM MINING OR MILLING.

    Section 306(a) of the Agricultural Act of 1961 (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(27) Grants to tribal health programs on reservations 
        impacted by uranium mining or milling.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Secretary may award grants 
                to tribal health programs located on reservations where 
                uranium mining or milling occurred for purposes of 
                providing cancer treatment to Indians who reside on 
                such reservations and whose health was impacted by such 
                mining or milling.
                    ``(B) Amount and conditions.--The Secretary may 
                award grants under subparagraph (A) in such amounts and 
                subject to such conditions as the Secretary determines 
                appropriate.
                    ``(C) Definitions.--In this paragraph, the terms 
                `Indian', `reservation', and `tribal health program' 
                have the meanings given those terms in section 4 of the 
                Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1603).
                    ``(D) Authorization of appropriations.--For 
                purposes of carrying out this paragraph, there is 
                authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of 
                fiscal years 2018 through 2022.''.
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