Notice2024-27619
Acceptance of Retrocession of Jurisdiction for the Skokomish Nation
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Published
November 26, 2024
Effective
May 27, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentIndian Affairs Bureau
Abstract
The Department of the Interior (Department) has accepted retrocession to the United States of partial criminal jurisdiction over the Skokomish Nation from the State of Washington.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 228 (Tuesday, November 26, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 93336]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27619]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Acceptance of Retrocession of Jurisdiction for the Skokomish
Nation
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of the Interior (Department) has accepted
retrocession to the United States of partial criminal jurisdiction over
the Skokomish Nation from the State of Washington.
DATES: The Department accepted retrocession on November 20, 2024.
Complete implementation of jurisdiction will be effective May 27, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. R. Glen Melville, Deputy
Director--Office of Justice Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs (202)
208-5787.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the authority in 25 U.S.C. 1323
vested in the Secretary of the Interior by Executive Order No. 11435 of
November 21, 1968 (33 FR 17339) and re-delegated to the Assistant
Secretary--Indian Affairs by part 209 chapter 8 of the Department of
the Interior Departmental Manual, the United States accepts
retrocession of partial criminal jurisdiction over the Skokomish
Nation, which was acquired by the State of Washington pursuant to
Public Law 83-280, 67 Stat. 588, 18 U.S.C. 1162, 28 U.S.C. 1360 and as
provided in the Revised Code of Washington sections 37.12.010,
37.12.021, 37.12.030, 37.12.040, 37.12.050 (1957), and 37.12.060
(1963).
The Tribe requested and the State of Washington offered, pursuant
to the Revised Code of Washington sections 37.12.100-.120 and 37.12.180
and Governor Mike Lowry's October 19, 1994, proclamation to partially
retrocede criminal jurisdiction over certain criminal acts committed by
Indians occurring on tribal or allotted lands within the exterior
boundaries of the Skokomish Nation Reservation and held in trust by the
United States, or subject to a restriction against alienation imposed
by the United States. The State of Washington retains partial criminal
jurisdiction over the Skokomish Nation Reservation as provided in the
Revised Code of Washington Section 37.12.010, including over the eight
enumerated categories of offenses committed by Indians on trust or
allotted lands within the Reservation, over non-Indians, and over civil
matters.
This retrocession was offered by proclamation from the Governor of
the State of Washington Mike Lowry, signed on October 19, 1994,
revoking and superseding the July 13, 1957, proclamation, and
transmitted to the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs in accordance
with the process in Revised Code of Washington sections 37.12.100-.120,
and as provided by Skokomish Tribal Council Resolution No. 94-73, dated
June 9, 1994, in which the Skokomish Nation requested that the State of
Washington retrocede criminal jurisdiction to the Tribe.
Bryan Newland,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2024-27619 Filed 11-25-24; 8:45 am]
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