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Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2017 INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2017 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES KEN CALVERT, California, Chairman MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho BETTY MCCOLLUM, Minnesota TOM COLE, Oklahoma CHELLIE PINGREE, Maine DAVID P. JOYCE, Ohio DEREK KILMER, Washington CHRIS STEWART, Utah STEVE ISRAEL, New York MARK E. AMODEI, Nevada EVAN H. JENKINS, West Virginia NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Rogers, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mrs. Lowey, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees. DAVE LESSTRANG, DARREN BENJAMIN, JASON GRAY, BETSY BINA, JACLYN KILROY, and KRISTIN RICHMOND, Staff Assistants PART 8 Testimony of Interested Individuals and Organizations Page American Indian/Alaska Native Public Witnesses, March 17, 2016 ...................................................................... 1 American Indian/Alaska Native Public Witnesses, March 18, 2016 ...................................................................... 325 Written Testimony From Individuals and Organizations ........................................................................ 585 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 99–905 WASHINGTON: 2016 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky, Chairman RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey NITA M. LOWEY, New York ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio KAY GRANGER, Texas PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho JOSE´ E. SERRANO, New York JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON, Texas ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut ANDER CRENSHAW, Florida DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina JOHN R. CARTER, Texas LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California KEN CALVERT, California SAM FARR, California TOM COLE, Oklahoma CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania MARIO DIAZ-BALART, Florida SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR., Georgia CHARLES W. DENT, Pennsylvania BARBARA LEE, California TOM GRAVES, Georgia MICHAEL M. HONDA, California KEVIN YODER, Kansas BETTY MCCOLLUM, Minnesota STEVE WOMACK, Arkansas STEVE ISRAEL, New York JEFF FORTENBERRY, Nebraska TIM RYAN, Ohio THOMAS J. ROONEY, Florida C. A. DUTCH RUPPERSBERGER, Maryland CHARLES J. FLEISCHMANN, Tennessee DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Florida JAIME HERRERA BEUTLER, Washington HENRY CUELLAR, Texas DAVID P. JOYCE, Ohio CHELLIE PINGREE, Maine DAVID G. VALADAO, California MIKE QUIGLEY, Illinois ANDY HARRIS, Maryland DEREK KILMER, Washington MARTHA ROBY, Alabama MARK E. AMODEI, Nevada CHRIS STEWART, Utah E. SCOTT RIGELL, Virginia DAVID W. JOLLY, Florida DAVID YOUNG, Iowa EVAN H. JENKINS, West Virginia STEVEN M. PALAZZO, Mississippi WILLIAM E. SMITH, Clerk and Staff Director (II) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRON- MENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPRO- PRIATIONS FOR 2017 TESTIMONY OF INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2016. PUBLIC WITNESSES—AMERICAN INDIANS/ALASKA NATIVES Mr. CALVERT. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to this public witness hearing specifically for American Indian and Alaska Native programs under the jurisdiction of the Interior, Environ- ment Appropriations Subcommittee. I especially want to welcome the distinguished tribal elders and leaders testifying today and the audience. Most of you have trav- eled a long way to be here this week. I hope you will seize the op- portunity to meet with other Members of Congress outside of this subcommittee, to remind them that honoring the Nation’s trust ob- ligations is a responsibility shared by all Members of Congress, re- gardless of our State or congressional district. I can assure you that your voices are heard by this sub- committee. For those new to the process, today’s hearings are just the start of a dialogue we have come to depend upon to help us make smart choices in the budget and to earn the votes of our col- leagues. American Indian and Alaskan Native programs will continue to be a nonpartisan priority for the subcommittee, just as they have been in recent years under the chairmanships of both Democrats and Republicans alike. Before we begin, I have housekeeping items to share for all of you. This is important. Committee rules prohibit the use of outside cameras and audio equipment during these hearings. That is to en- sure that anything that anyone says here today is not unfairly re- produced or out of context. The hearing can be viewed in its entirety on the committee’s Web site, and an official hearing transcript will be available at GPO.gov. I will call each panel of witnesses to the table, one panel at a time. Each witness will have 5 minutes to present his or her testi- mony. Each witness’s full testimony will be introduced into the record, so please do not feel pressured to cover everything in 5 min- utes. Finishing in less than 5 minutes earns you brownie points with both me and Ms. McCollum. [Laughter.] (1) 2 We will be using a timer to track the progress of each witness. When the light turns yellow, the witness will have 1 minute re- maining to conclude his or her remarks. When the light blinks red, I will ask the witness to stop. We will hear from every witness on each panel before members will be provided an opportunity to ask questions. We have a full day ahead, which may be interrupted by votes. I am sorry about that, but that is why they pay us the big bucks. So I request that we try to keep things moving in order to stay on schedule and re- spect each other’s time. With that, I thank all of you for being here today, and I am happy to yield now to our distinguished ranking member, Betty McCollum, for any remarks that she would like to make. Ms. MCCOLLUM. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am going lead by your example. I am just going to thank everybody for coming today. I will be stepping out and leaving things in the capable hands of my colleague, Mr. Kilmer, to attend to a conflict that I have with an- other meeting for a short while. And to anyone who I am not here when they give their testi- mony, I will read it in its entirety. With that, Mr. Chairman, I want to say thank you and let’s get going. This is always good. Mr. CALVERT. All right. We are going to get going. We have three witnesses with us today. First is David Bean, a councilman with—the Puyallup Tribe of Washington State; William B. Iyall, chairman of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe; and Frances Charles, chairwoman of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. And I am going to let you go first, Frances. THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2016. WITNESS FRANCES CHARLES, CHAIRWOMAN, LOWER ELWHA KLALLAM TRIBE Ms. CHARLES. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee and Congressman Kilmer. I am Frances Charles, the tribal chairwoman for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe in Port Angeles, Washington. I want to thank you for providing me the opportunity to testify on the Bureau of In- dian Affairs and Indian Health Service budgets for fiscal year 2017. We have many priorities, and I will name a few of them before you today. We are also supporting the regional and national budget requests and the issues. Before you, we have the concerns of the contract support costs. Presently, we are grateful for the progress to date for paying the past and the present and the future to the tribes, but there is some language that is inserted in the contract at this point in time that we are asking to be removed because of the Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. They are already being addressed cur- rently under the contract and the compact funding sources of it as well. Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is located at the mouth of the Elwha River where it empties into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. We are a 3 Point No Point Treaty tribe and our reservation that we acquired was a little over 350-some acres. Now we are roughly at 1,000 acres. We have a little over 1,000 memberships that we have en- rolled, but we have several enrolled descendants as well as our membership is over 50 percent of those who are under 18. We are requesting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the dam removal project. This has been a long journey for the tribe, as many of you are aware of. But we have some of the 1992 act con- gressional direction in regards to the Elwha River ecosystem and the fisheries restoration of some of the land basis that we are ask- ing for it to be moved forward for some of the project land as well as some of the shortfalls of the project itself, a $4.9 million that it be covered. Some of those, as an example, are the salmon hatchery, for the operation and maintenance costs. Due to the settlement issues that come from behind the dam removal itself, it prolonged some of the factors of our fingerling, so it has been a challenge for us to be able to do what is necessary for the endangered species, as well as con- trolling the water systems in the river as it stands. The flood control levy for the operation, maintenance, we are looking at some more funding sources on that one of $270,000. Due to the post of the Hurricane Karina standards, we have been regu- lated and obligated for the standards for the levy maintenance. And it is more than what we had anticipated annually through the self-governance, as we received $10,000 and we are asking for $270,000. $4 million for the land acquisition that is in the 1992 Elwha act in Section 7(b). It was authorized for the appropriation of $4 mil- lion, and we are asking for the Secretary to acquire the trust lands for the tribe into the reservation status in the Clallam County that is identified.
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