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Federal Consultation with Tribes Regarding IN THE MATTER OF: FEDERAL CONSULTATION WITH TRIBES REGARDING INFRASTRUCTURE DECISION-MAKING HELD TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2016 8:40 A.M. DAYBREAK STAR INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER 5001 BERNIE WHITEBEAR WAY SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98199 Meeting Consult With Tribes October 25, 2016 NDT Assgn # 22463-1 Page 2 1 PANEL MEMBERS PRESENT: 2 3 LAWRENCE ROBERTS 4 Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary 5 Department of the Interior 6 7 MICHAEL L. CONNOR 8 Deputy Secretary 9 Department of the Interior 10 11 DAVID F. CONRAD 12 Deputy Director 13 U.S. Department of Energy 14 Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs 15 16 DAWN STURDEVANT BAUM 17 Attorney Advisor 18 Department of Justice 19 Office of Tribal Justice 20 21 JODY A. CUMMINGS 22 Deputy Solicitor for Indian Affairs 23 Office of the Solicitor 24 Department of the Interior 25 Meeting Consult With Tribes October 25, 2016 NDT Assgn # 22463-1 Page 3 1 PANEL MEMBERS PRESENT: (CONTINUED) 2 3 BRIGADIER GENERAL SCOTT SPELLMON 4 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 5 6 LEONARD FORSMAN 7 Chairman Suquamish Tribe 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Meeting Consult With Tribes October 25, 2016 NDT Assgn # 22463-1 Page 4 1 TRIBAL CONSULTATION 2 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 3 8:35 A.M. 4 5 MR. CONNOR: Good morning, everybody. I 6 think we are ready to begin. Thank you for your 7 patience. Let me start by introducing 8 Representative Roberts, here in the Pacific 9 Northwest, Chairman Leonard Forsman Suquamish Tribe. 10 MR. FORSMAN: Welcome, everybody. Before 11 we get started I've asked the Chairman Goudy of the 12 Yakima Nation, who has accepted, so come on up. 13 (Whereupon, there was a prayer in Native 14 language.) 15 MR. GOUDY: My (Native language spoken) 16 name is Jode Goudy, I serve as the Chairman of the 17 Yakima Nation. This day of the Creator we ask that 18 you center us all, that you focus us all, as this 19 talk, as this time that we've come together. And 20 the advocacy of the song that I bring out was 21 brought back to our people by someone who had died, 22 and they come back to life. All the songs of our 23 people are not man-made, but indeed they have come 24 forth from our Creator. 25 The song is warrior song. We have Meeting Consult With Tribes October 25, 2016 NDT Assgn # 22463-1 Page 5 1 veterans, we have servicemen that are here today. 2 But each of us as advocates of our natural resources 3 as well are engaged in a battle on behalf of our 4 natural resources, our lands, our waters, and those 5 things that sustain our uniqueness, our way of life, 6 and our walks, such things if we lose this battle we 7 will lose our way of life, we will cease to be. 8 So, I sing the song for all of us 9 collectively, and indeed that this work that we will 10 bring forth will sustain the existence of our 11 collective Native Nations and peoples, our walks, 12 our way of life, for the future generations, and 13 those yet unborn, for indeed this is a special and 14 unique time, and we will see what this will take us, 15 where this will all collectively take us. 16 For these words to bring out (Native 17 language spoken). Thank you. 18 MR. CONNOR: Thank you, Chairman Goudy. 19 Chairman Forsman? 20 MR. FORSMAN: Yes. We would like to 21 welcome everybody here to Seattle. I'm Leonard 22 Forsman, Chairman of the Suquamish Tribe, honoring 23 Chief Seattle and the only Tribe here in Central 24 Sound, recognized here. This is an important place 25 to me because it's really close to an archeological Meeting Consult With Tribes October 25, 2016 NDT Assgn # 22463-1 Page 6 1 site I worked on many years ago at the West Point 2 Treatment Plant, a very powerful place. 3 And this place was a great concourse among 4 the specific tribes that came together in the 5 summertime, they'd fish and gather and trade. And 6 evidence of that was that it was at least 4,000 7 years old on the site. There was evidence of -- of 8 our people in that place. So, it's very important 9 to be here. 10 I thank the United Indians for hosting us 11 here today. On behalf of Suquamish we welcome you 12 here. I'd also like to put a word out for the 13 Muckleshoot Tribe. They were unable to send anybody 14 to the event. They've had a tragic shooting down 15 there, one of their members was lost over the 16 weekend, and so they are having a memorial today. 17 They send their regrets. But I just wanted to pass 18 that on on their behalf. 19 So, with that, the Federal 20 representatives, thank you for coming. And I'm 21 going to be one of those, a presidential appointee 22 up here, representative the Advisory Council on 23 Historic Preservation. So, here I go. Thanks 24 everybody. 25 MR. CONNOR: Thank you, Chairman Forsman. Meeting Consult With Tribes October 25, 2016 NDT Assgn # 22463-1 Page 7 1 Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We're -- we're very happy 2 to have you up here with us this morning. Thank you 3 to all of you for taking the time out of your 4 schedules to join us at today's consultation to talk 5 about the very serious issue about how the Federal 6 Government permits infrastructure and ways that we 7 can improve our -- our outreach, our dialogue, our 8 consultation and all that that really means with 9 tribal nations as part of our other federal 10 responsibilities. 11 This is a beautiful facility. If I stand 12 up at any point in time it'll be to capture as much 13 of the view here at I possibly can before I have to 14 catch another plane. But I very much appreciate the 15 -- the opportunity to be here in this beautiful 16 setting for this discussion. 17 Today I -- I just want a few housekeeping 18 items. And a little bit of perspective from the 19 Department of the Interior's perspective, and I'm 20 going to allow the other federal agency 21 representatives to introduce themselves and speak 22 briefly about their own agency's perspectives here. 23 But, of course, it's a consultation. It's a 24 consultation with tribal leaders. And from that 25 standpoint this is not an open meeting to the Meeting Consult With Tribes October 25, 2016 NDT Assgn # 22463-1 Page 8 1 public, nor a meeting that's open to the press 2 either. It is for us to gain input, to allow you 3 the time to express your views, and to give us input 4 on the questions that we have posed as part of the 5 consultation. 6 Before I get into kind of the -- the 7 framing of the issues that we're here to discuss 8 today, let me just note that the consultation is a 9 result of activity that we've had and issues that 10 we've had with respect to infrastructure permitting. 11 From that standpoint the Department of the 12 Interior, the Department of the Army, Department of 13 Justice have taken the lead in initiating this set 14 of consultations to talk about how we can work 15 better and more closely, and better fulfill our 16 federal trust responsibilities as part of that 17 process. But we are working across the board with 18 other federal agencies, so Environmental Protection 19 Agency, we have the Department of Energy 20 representative here today with us, the Department of 21 Agriculture, in this whole series of consultations 22 that we will have, I believe seven consultations, 23 one listening session. We will have an array of 24 federal representative from the different agencies 25 participating in that. Meeting Consult With Tribes October 25, 2016 NDT Assgn # 22463-1 Page 9 1 So, before I get into the purpose of the 2 consultation, and set up the outline from -- from 3 our perspective, why don't I give an opportunity for 4 each of the members here to introduce themselves, so 5 that you know who's here listening to you, and the 6 perspective that they have. 7 General? 8 GENERAL SPELLMON: Well, good morning, 9 everyone. My name is Brigadier General Scott 10 Spellmon. I'm one of the regional commanders from 11 the Army Corps of Engineers. Mine is a -- ours is a 12 14-state region, essentially, extending from 13 Missouri all the way up to where we sit this 14 morning, including North Dakota. 15 The -- I'm joined this morning by several 16 members of our assistant secretary staff, Ms. 17 Darcy's staff back in Washington, several members 18 from our headquarters back in Washington, DC, and we 19 also have two of our district commanders here this 20 morning from Seattle and Portland, and our deputy 21 district engineer for the Walla Walla district. 22 So, glad to be here this morning and we 23 look forward to listening and getting your input. 24 Thank you. 25 MR. ROBERTS: Good morning, everyone.
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