Federal forest land in Washington goes to Quinault Indian Nation
S. 1514 — Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer Act · Filed by Maria Cantwell (D-WA) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Apr 29, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill moves about 72 acres of federal forest land in Washington. The land goes to the Department of the Interior. It will be held in trust for the Quinault Indian Nation. The land becomes part of their reservation. Existing easements and rights-of-way stay in place. Gaming is banned on this land. The federal government must tell the tribe about hazardous materials. The government does not have to clean them up.
Who it affects
The Quinault Indian Nation gains the land and expanded reservation territory. The public keeps existing easements and rights-of-way on the land.
One thing to notice
The tribe may have to pay for cleanup if contamination is found after the land transfer.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Apr 29, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Apr 29, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Indian Affairs · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs”
- Jun 3, 2026 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held”
- Aug 5, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably”
- Sep 30, 2026 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 3 reports from Mar 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $148,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 3 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Maria Cantwell, who sponsored the bill, received $-9,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Quinault Indian Nation — $148,000 in 3 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- trust — Land held and managed by the federal government for a tribe's benefit.
- reservation — Land set aside by the federal government for a Native American tribe.
- easements — Rights that let other people or groups use land for specific purposes.
- hazardous materials — Substances that can harm people, animals, or the environment.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,284 characters) on Aug 20, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Mar 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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