Political Quotes

“I rise today to discuss an important provision I authored in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Section 40336 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, H.R. 3684, includes several provisions relating to the Act of June 29, 1940, 54 Stat. 703, chapter 460; 16 U.S.C. 835d et seq., that facilitated the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam. The portion of the Columbia River that flows through the Colville and Spokane Indian Reservations formerly supported abundant anadromous salmon fisheries that were significant culturally and nutritionally to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and the Spokane Tribe of Indians. Upon completion of the Grand Coulee Dam in 1942, these fisheries were destroyed, and the Columbia River upstream of the Grand Coulee Dam was inundated by its reservoir waters. In 1945, these reservoir waters were designated Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake and today are commonly referred to as Lake Roosevelt. The 1940 Act instructed the Secretary of the Interior to ``set aside approximately one-quarter of the entire reservoir area for the paramount use of the Indians of the Spokane and Colville Reservations for hunting, fishing, and boating purposes, which rights shall be subject only to such reasonable regulations as the Secretary may prescribe for the protection and conservation of fish and wildlife . . . .'' 16 U.S.C. 835d (emphasis added).…”