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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