Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act

Current understanding

HR2388 would place approximately 1,082.63 acres in Washington State into federal trust for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, incorporating the land into the tribe’s reservation. The Act follows standard Indian land-into-trust procedures and explicitly prohibits gaming on the transferred parcels. Status: introduced.

Evidence log

• 2026-06-03 — To take certain land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Pechanga Band of Indians, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with pechanga-band-land-into-trust: Both are single-tribe land-into-trust conveyances with use restrictions (no gaming / restoration purposes) rather than economic-development trust acquisitions. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-12-16 — A bill to reaffirm the applicability of the Indian Reorganization Act to the Lytton Rancheria of California, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with lytton-rancheria-land-into-trust: Both are tribe-specific land-into-trust bills operating under the Indian Reorganization Act framework, reflecting a pattern of narrow legislative fixes for individual tribes rather than a broad Carcieri repeal. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-03-04 — To authorize leases of up to 99 years for land held in trust for federally recognized Indian Tribes.: cross-connection with tribal-trust-land-99-year-leasing-universal: Land taken into trust under tribal restoration statutes would become eligible for the universal 99-year leasing authority proposed by HR5910. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-05-20 — A bill to amend the Act of August 9, 1955 (commonly known as the “Long-Term Leasing Act”), to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land in the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation and land held in trust for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), and for other purposes.: 2026 — Wampanoag Long-Term Leasing Act amendment (Mashpee Wampanoag and Gay Head Aquinnah 99-year leases) noted as a parallel but distinct tribal land mechanism: leasing authority on existing trust land rather than land-into-trust acquisition. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-05-20 — Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act: cross-connection with federal-grazing-land-jurisdiction-transfers: Both are tribe-specific land-into-trust bills that add acreage to a reservation while prohibiting gaming on the transferred land — same procedural template applied to different tribes. (novelty: 2)

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