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The President's Fiscal Year 2013 Budget for Native S. HRG. 112–633 THE PRESIDENT’S FISCAL YEAR 2013 BUDGET FOR NATIVE PROGRAMS HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION MARCH 8, 2012 Printed for the use of the Committee on Indian Affairs ( U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 75–828 PDF WASHINGTON : 2012 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate 0ct 09 2002 13:42 Nov 30, 2012 Jkt 075828 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 S:\DOCS\75828.TXT JACK COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii, Chairman JOHN BARRASSO, Wyoming, Vice Chairman DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona KENT CONRAD, North Dakota LISA MURKOWSKI, Alaska TIM JOHNSON, South Dakota JOHN HOEVEN, North Dakota MARIA CANTWELL, Washington MIKE CRAPO, Idaho JON TESTER, Montana MIKE JOHANNS, Nebraska TOM UDALL, New Mexico AL FRANKEN, Minnesota LORETTA A. TUELL, Majority Staff Director and Chief Counsel DAVID A. MULLON JR., Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel (II) VerDate 0ct 09 2002 13:42 Nov 30, 2012 Jkt 075828 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\DOCS\75828.TXT JACK C O N T E N T S Page Hearing held on March 8, 2012 .............................................................................. 1 Statement of Senator Akaka ................................................................................... 1 Statement of Senator Barrasso ............................................................................... 8 Statement of Senator Franken ............................................................................... 7 WITNESSES Echo Hawk, Hon. Larry, Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs, U.S. Depart- ment of the Interior; accompanied by: Mike Smith, Deputy Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Keith Moore, Director, Bureau of Indian Education ..... 2 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 3 Hicks, Hon. Michell, Principal Chief, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; on Behalf of the United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. .................................. 25 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 27 Roubideaux, Hon. Yvette, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; accompanied by Randy Grinnell, Deputy Director, Indian Health Service ............................................ 8 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 10 Sharp, Hon. Fawn R., President, Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians .......... 19 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 20 Shepherd, Hon. Robert, Chairman, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate; on behalf of the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association ............................................... 35 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 37 APPENDIX Bordeaux, Dr. Roger, Executive Director, Association of Community Tribal Schools Inc. (ACTS), prepared statement .......................................................... 82 Causley, Cheryl A., Chairwoman, National American Indian Housing Council, prepared statement .............................................................................................. 58 Charts—Effect of Sequestration on Indian Affairs and BIA Funding FY 1977– 2012......................................................................................................................... 47,48 Cherokee Nation, prepared statement ................................................................... 55 Gipp, David M., President, United Tribes Technical College (UTTC), prepared statements .............................................................................................................. 85,88 Gschwind, Russell, Director, National Ironworkers Training Program for American Indians, prepared statement .............................................................. 80 McNamara, Hon. Dexter, Tribal Chairman, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa , prepared statement ............................................................................... 62 National Congress of American Indians, prepared statement ............................. 48 National Indian Health Board, prepared statement ............................................. 67 Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, prepared statement ................. 78 Zorn, James, Executive Administrator, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC), prepared statement ..................................................... 64 (III) VerDate 0ct 09 2002 13:42 Nov 30, 2012 Jkt 075828 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\DOCS\75828.TXT JACK VerDate 0ct 09 2002 13:42 Nov 30, 2012 Jkt 075828 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\DOCS\75828.TXT JACK THE PRESIDENT’S FISCAL YEAR 2013 BUDGET FOR NATIVE PROGRAMS THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS, Washington, DC. The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 4:35 p.m. in room 628, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Daniel K. Akaka, Chairman of the Committee, presiding. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. DANIEL K. AKAKA, U.S. SENATOR FROM HAWAII The CHAIRMAN. The Committee will come to order. Aloha and welcome to the Committee’s oversight hearing on the President’s Fiscal Year 2013 Budget for Native Programs. In these difficult economic times, the President’s budget request for fiscal year 2013 reflects a continued commitment to strengthen Tribal nations, advance Indian education and support and expand health care services. However, it is important to remember that the Federal Govern- ment has a trust responsibility to Indian Tribes, even during an economic recovery. This trust responsibility is especially important to remember if the sequester occurs at the beginning of 2013 which would require across the board cuts in the majority of programs at government agencies. This could have a devastating effect on Trib- al programs which are chronically underfunded, even during pros- perous times. I was especially pleased to see that the President’s budget in- cluded a legislative recommendation to address the Carcieri deci- sion. Fixing the Carcieri decision remains a top priority of the Committee and the Administration. Righting this wrong will cost no money and will, in fact, be instrumental in saving and creating jobs and bringing economic development opportunities in Indian Country. Today we will hear from the Department of Interior and the In- dian Health Service on the President’s budget. And we will hear from several Tribal organizations on the impact this budget will have on Tribes in their area. As this hearing impacts all Tribal nations, I would like to em- phasize the importance of submitting comments or written testi- mony for the record. The hearing record will remain open for two weeks from today. (1) VerDate 0ct 09 2002 13:42 Nov 30, 2012 Jkt 075828 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 S:\DOCS\75828.TXT JACK 2 Now I would like to invite our first panel to the witness table. Serving on our first table is the Honorable Larry Echo Hawk, As- sistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the Department of Interior. Accompanying Secretary Echo Hawk are Mr. Mike Smith, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Keith Moore, Director of the Bureau of Indian Education. Next we welcome the Honorable Yvette Roubideaux, Director of the Indian Health Service in the Department of Health and Human Services. Accompanying Dr. Roubideaux is Mr. Randy Grinnell, Deputy Director of the Indian Health Service. Let me just thank you for your patience and I have been looking forward to this hearing. Secretary Echo Hawk, will you please pro- ceed with your testimony? STATEMENT OF HON. LARRY ECHO HAWK, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INDIAN AFFAIRS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR; ACCOMPANIED BY: MIKE SMITH, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS AND KEITH MOORE, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF INDIAN EDUCATION Mr. ECHO HAWK. Thank you, Chairman Akaka. We have pre- viously submitted a written statement, but I will summarize my statement to begin with. We thank you for this opportunity to provide the Department’s statement on the Fiscal Year 2013 President’s budget request. The 2013 budget request for Indian Affairs within the Department of Interior totals $2.5 billion in current appropriations. This is $4.6 million below last year’s enacted level which amounts to a reduc- tion of two-tenths of 1 percent. As you know, Indian Affairs meets with Tribes on a quarterly basis on the budget through the Tribal Interior Budget Council. Through this informed consultation with Tribes we included in this budget request $43.8 million in program increases in priority areas, such as contract support costs, rights protection implementation and law enforcement. And Chairman Akaka, there are some reduc- tions in the budget. The Indian Affairs 2013 budget request continues to provide funding for two of the Department’s priority initiatives, strength- ening Tribal nations and A New Energy Frontier. This budget re- quest seeks an increase of $43.8 million for strengthening Tribal nations. Within this initiative, we plan to advance nation to nation relationships by seeking $12.3 million in programmatic increases for contract support costs
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