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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
January 1, 2020
Law to improve in-lieu sites
The U.S. House of Rep-
resentatives has passed the
Columbia River In-Lieu and
Treaty Fishing Access Sites
Improvement Act, sending it
to the president’s desk to be
signed into law.
Oregon’s U.S. Senators
Jeff Merkley and Ron
Wyden, and Congressman
Earl Blumenauer, along with
Senators Patty Murray and
Maria Cantwell, and Con-
gresswoman
Suzanne
Bonamici, announced passage
of the bill in December.
The legislation would en-
able the Bureau of Indian
Affairs to make important
safety and sanitation im-
provements at the tribal treaty
fishing access sites along the
Columbia River, which are on
lands held by the United
States for the benefit of the
four Columbia River Treaty
tribes.
The bill, authored by
Merkley and Blumenauer,
was unanimously passed by
the U.S. Senate on June 28.
“The current conditions at
Columbia River fishing sites
are unacceptable, unjust, and
must be fixed,” Merkley said.
“I’ve personally seen the
shocking conditions at Lone
Pine. We owe better to the
tribal communities in the
Northwest, and the very least
we can do is uphold our com-
mitments to tribes and ensure
basic sanitation and safety.
I’m pleased that our col-
leagues in the House of Rep-
resentatives have joined us in
passing this bill, and I urge
the president to sign it into
law without delay.”
“Congress has a responsi-
bility to address the egregious
misdeeds committed against
the tribes who have lived
along the Columbia River
since time immemorial,”
Blumenauer said.
“We cannot pretend that
this bill rectifies all of these
injustices, but passing it is an
important step in helping im-
prove the lives of those who
still reside there. This is just
the start, and Congress must
continue its work to right
these wrongs.”
“It is the federal
government’s duty to ensure
our tribal communities along
the river have access to safe,
sanitary housing and infra-
structure at historical fish-
ing access sites—a critical
component of their culture
and heritage, as well as an
important source of suste-
nance—and this bill takes
another vital step toward
fulfilling our government-to-
government obligation,”
Murry said. “As a represen-
tative for our state’s tribes
in the Senate, I urge the
President to sign this bill
into law.”
“Improving the health
and safety at tribal fishing
sites along the Columbia
River is an important and
long overdue step toward
righting historic wrongs,”
Wyden said.
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