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House subcommittee reviews bill to pay $137.5 million settlement to Quapaw Nation
Summary
A House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing examined H.R.1451, which would authorize $137,500,000 to implement a Court of Federal Claims settlement for Quapaw Nation claimants and establish a special deposit account in the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration.
At a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing, witnesses and tribal leaders discussed H.R.1451, the Quapaw Tribal Settlement Act of 2025, which would authorize $137,500,000 to be placed into a special deposit account to pay claimants in the Thomas Charles Baer et al. v. United States settlement.
The settlement responds to decades of litigation over alleged mismanagement of Quapaw trust assets and environmental harm from lead and zinc mining on reservation lands. "The bill is a just and necessary response to one of the most…
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