H.R. 4272: To amend the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to modify the terms and scope of a land exchange involving Fort Lewis, Washington, authorized between the Secretary of the Army and the Nisqually Tribe and affecting the interests of the Bonneville Power Administration.

H.R. 4272: To amend the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to modify the terms and scope of a land exchange involving Fort Lewis, Washington, authorized between the Secretary of the Army and the Nisqually Tribe and affecting the interests of the Bonneville Power Administration.

108th Congress · introduced 2004-05-04 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.

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Who proposed it: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9] · what a sponsor is
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Official title

To amend the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to modify the terms and scope of a land exchange involving Fort Lewis, Washington, authorized between the Secretary of the Army and the Nisqually Tribe and affecting the interests of the Bonneville Power Administration.

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Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to modify the terms of an authorized land exchange involving Fort Lewis, Washington, between the Secretary of the Army and the Nisqually Tribe to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Army to make such transfer to the Secretary of the Interior to hold in trust for the Tribe; (2) correct the acreage involved in the exchange; (3) consider such exchange a transfer (currently, a conveyance); (4) provide for the treatment of existing permit rights; and (5) direct the Secretary of the Interior to grant to the Bonneville Power Administration easements across the transferred property as necessary to relocate or reconnect power transmission facilities.

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To amend the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to modify the terms and scope of a land exchange involving Fort Lewis, Washington, authorized between the Secretary of the Army and the Nisqually Tribe and affecting the interests of the Bonneville Power Administration.

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9] · 0 cosponsors

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Authorization: A law that creates or continues a government program and says what it may do, often with a suggested spending ceiling. An authorization alone does not provide money; a separate appropriation does.
Fiscal year: The 12-month period a government uses for its budget. The federal fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30 and is named for the calendar year in which it ends. Most states use July 1 to June 30.

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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-108hr4272.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/108/hr>

Record fed-us-cong108-hr4272 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong108 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong108