Bills for Consideration:
S.3648, A bill to establish a commission to con duct a study and provide
recommendations on a comprehens ive resolution of impacts caused to certain Ind ian
tribes by the Pick-Sloan Program (The Pick-Sloan Tribal Commission Act of 2010);
S. 3903, A bill to authorize leases of up to 99 years for lands held in trust for Ohkay
Owingeh Pueblo;
H.R. 4445, A bill to amend Public Law 95-232 to repeal a restriction on trea ting as Ind ian
country cer tain lands held in trust for Indian pueblos in New Mexico (The Indian
Pueblo Cultural Center Clarification Act);
H.R. 5811, A bill to amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian
Tribes of Texas Resto ration Act to allow the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Tribe to detennine
blood quantum requirement for membership in that Tribe;
S. 2956, A bill to au thorize the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians Water Rights
Settlement, and for other purposes (The Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians
Water Rights Settlement Act);
S. 1264, A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to assess the irrigation infrastructure
of the Pine River Indian Irr igation Project in the Sta te of Colorado and provide grants to,
and enter into cooperative agreements with, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe to assess,
repair, rehabilitate, or reconstruct existing infrastructure, and for othe r purposes (The
Pine River Indian Irrigation Project Act of 2009); and
S.980, A bill to di rect the Secreta ry of Commerce to establish a demonstration program
to adapt the lessons of providing foreign aid to underdeveloped economies to the
provision of Federal economic developmen t ass istance to cer tain similarly situated
individuals, and for other purposes (The Native American Challenge Demonstration
Project Act of 2009).