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Indian Affairs Committee hearing on three bills
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Filed Under: Politics

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee is holding a hearing this morning on three bills.

The hearing starts at 10:30am and will be broadcast online at http://indian.senate.gov/public/webcast.ram. It focuses on three bills:

1) S. 3128, White Mountain Apache Tribe Rural Water System Loan Authorization Act;

2) S. 3355, Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2008;

3) S. 3381, A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to develop water infrastructure in the Rio Grande Basin, and to approve the settlement of the water rights claims of the Pueblos of Nambe, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, and Taos.

The witness list follows:

>THE HONORABLE JON KYL

THE HONORABLE JEFF BINGAMAN

Panel 1
MR. KRIS POLLY
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, U.S. Department of The Interior

MR. MICHAEL L. BOGERT
Counselor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of The Interior

Panel 2
THE HONORABLE RONNIE LUPE
Chairman, White Mountain Apache Tribe, Arizona

MR. JOHN SULLIVAN
Associate General Manager, Salt River Project, Phoenix, Arizona

THE HONORABLE CEDRIC BLACK EAGLE
Vice Chairman, Crow Tribe of Montana

MR. CHRIS TWEETEN
Chief Civil Counsel, Legal Services Division, Office of the Attorney General, State of Montana.

THE HONORABLE CHARLES DORAME
Chairman, Northern Pueblos Tributary Water Rights Association, New Mexico

THE HONORABLE GILBERT SUAZO Councilman, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico

Committee Notice:
LEGISLATIVE HEARING (September 11, 2008)

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