INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2010 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington, Chairman JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia KEN CALVERT, California BEN CHANDLER, Kentucky STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York TOM COLE, Oklahoma JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts ED PASTOR, Arizona DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Obey, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Lewis, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees. DELIA SCOTT, CHRISTOPHER TOPIK, GREG KNADLE, JULIE FALKNER, and BETH HOUSER Staff Assistants PART 7 Page Witnesses—Native American Issues .................................... 1 Witnesses—Other Issues ........................................................ 389 ( Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations VerDate Nov 24 2008 04:42 Jun 18, 2009 Jkt 050064 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 7513 Sfmt 7513 E:\HR\OC\50064P1.XXX 50064P1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with HEARING Part 7 Public Witnesses VerDate Nov 24 2008 04:42 Jun 18, 2009 Jkt 050064 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6019 Sfmt 6019 E:\HR\OC\50064P1.XXX 50064P1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with HEARING with PROD1PC64 on smartinez INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2010 VerDate Nov 24 2008 04:42 Jun 18, 2009 Jkt 050064 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6019 Sfmt 6019 E:\HR\OC\50064P1.XXX 50064P1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with HEARING with PROD1PC64 on smartinez VerDate Nov 24 2008 04:42 Jun 18, 2009 Jkt 050064 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6019 Sfmt 6019 E:\HR\OC\50064P1.XXX 50064P1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with HEARING INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2010 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington, Chairman JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia KEN CALVERT, California BEN CHANDLER, Kentucky STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York TOM COLE, Oklahoma JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts ED PASTOR, Arizona DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Obey, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Lewis, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees. DELIA SCOTT, CHRISTOPHER TOPIK, GREG KNADLE, JULIE FALKNER, and BETH HOUSER Staff Assistants PART 7 Page Witnesses—Native American Issues .................................... 1 Witnesses—Other Issues ........................................................ 389 ( Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 50–064 WASHINGTON : 2009 VerDate Nov 24 2008 04:42 Jun 18, 2009 Jkt 050064 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 7513 Sfmt 7513 E:\HR\OC\50064P1.XXX 50064P1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with HEARING COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin, Chairman JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania JERRY LEWIS, California NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana JACK KINGSTON, Georgia NITA M. LOWEY, New York RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New JOSE´ E. SERRANO, New York Jersey ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut TODD TIAHRT, Kansas JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia ZACH WAMP, Tennessee JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts TOM LATHAM, Iowa ED PASTOR, Arizona ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina JO ANN EMERSON, Missouri CHET EDWARDS, Texas KAY GRANGER, Texas PATRICK J. KENNEDY, Rhode Island MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON, Texas LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California MARK STEVEN KIRK, Illinois SAM FARR, California ANDER CRENSHAW, Florida JESSE L. JACKSON, JR., Illinois DENNIS R. REHBERG, Montana CAROLYN C. KILPATRICK, Michigan JOHN R. CARTER, Texas ALLEN BOYD, Florida RODNEY ALEXANDER, Louisiana CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania KEN CALVERT, California STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey JO BONNER, Alabama SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR., Georgia STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio MARION BERRY, Arkansas TOM COLE, Oklahoma BARBARA LEE, California ADAM SCHIFF, California MICHAEL HONDA, California BETTY MCCOLLUM, Minnesota STEVE ISRAEL, New York TIM RYAN, Ohio C.A. ‘‘DUTCH’’ RUPPERSBERGER, Maryland BEN CHANDLER, Kentucky DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Florida CIRO RODRIGUEZ, Texas LINCOLN DAVIS, Tennessee JOHN T. SALAZAR, Colorado BEVERLY PHETO, Clerk and Staff Director (II) VerDate Nov 24 2008 04:42 Jun 18, 2009 Jkt 050064 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 7513 Sfmt 7513 E:\HR\OC\50064P1.XXX 50064P1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with HEARING DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRON- MENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPRO- PRIATIONS FOR 2010 TESTIMONY OF INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2009. PUBLIC WITNESSES—NATIVE AMERICANS MR. DICKS OPENING REMARKS Mr. DICKS. The committee will come to order. I want to welcome all of our witnesses this morning to the first of three days of public witness testimony. Today we will hear from citizens about issues affecting Native Americans in Indian Country. Tomorrow we will hear additional testimony from Native Ameri- cans, and in April we will hear from citizens testifying about other issues under the jurisdiction of the Interior and Environment Sub- committee. As members know, the right of the public to petition the committee is provided by the First Amendment of our Constitu- tion, and I am glad to host the third year of public witness hear- ings as chairman of this subcommittee. I am especially proud to be able to sit in front of you today and say that our committee supported more than $1.3 billion in in- creases for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service in the 2009 Omnibus appropriations bill and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Many of these positive funding de- cisions were made after last year’s Tribal Witness Day. We rejected the previous Administration’s budget proposal to eliminate the Johnson-O’Malley program, the urban Indian health clinics and various housing programs. The fiscal year 2009 bill funded a new $33 million initiative to address domestic violence, substance abuse and law enforcement needs in Indian Country. Including the Recov- ery Act in 2009, we more than doubled the funding for construction of health facilities, schools and detention centers. These BIA and IHS programs provide a broad range of critical services to improve the health and safety of Native American people across the coun- try, and while we do not yet have the details of President Obama’s fiscal year 2010 budget, we are hoping it contains healthy and much-needed increases to improve and expand these services. I am anxious to see his plan and I look forward to hearing from all of you today and tomorrow on the successes and challenges in Indian County. (1) VerDate Nov 24 2008 13:04 Jun 18, 2009 Jkt 050064 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 E:\HR\OC\A064P2.XXX A064P2 cprice-sewell on PROD1PC72 with HEARING 2 I would like to remind our witnesses that we have many speak- ers scheduled to appear today. To ensure that we are able to ac- commodate everyone, I ask that our witnesses respect the five- minute rule. A yellow light will flash with one minute remaining of your time in order to give you the opportunity to wrap up your statement. When the red light comes on, then your time has ex- pired. Your prepared statement will of course be published for the record along with a transcript of your actual testimony. Mr. DICKS. I want to now call on our ranking member, Mr. Simp- son, for any opening remarks. Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Chairman, I just want to say thank you for holding these days of public testimony. I think they are important and I look forward to the testimony of the witnesses. Mr. DICKS. And I also want to point out that all of the changes that we made last year in this budget to deal with these programs like the Johnson-O’Malley and the urban health clinics, this was all on a bipartisan basis. Mr. Tiahrt at the time was the ranking mem- ber. He felt as strongly as I did that these problems needed to be corrected, so again I look forward today to the witnesses. Our first witness is Robert Bear, chairman of the Shoshone-Pai- ute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation. Mr. Bear, Chairman. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2009. SHOSHONE-PAIUTE TRIBES OF THE DUCK VALLEY RESERVATION WITNESS ROBERT BEAR Mr. BEAR. Good morning. Hello, Chairman Dicks and members of the committee. My name is Robert Bear. I am the chairman of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation. I am pleased to present testimony before this subcommittee concerning the fiscal year 2010 budget of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and In- dian Health Service. I am joined by our attorney, Matt Jaffe, of the Sonosky, Chambers law firm. Mr. Chairman, I have traveled from Owyhee, Nevada, to be here today to let you know that the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes strive to meet our members’ needs in difficult circumstances. I want to speak to you about two major concerns we have. First, the BIA has failed us. They have not staffed and opened a 28-bed youth deten- tion center that we critically need on the Duck Valley Reservation. We will need $1.2 million to make repairs and improvements that BIA has identified to the facility that they helped us and the Jus- tice Department designed before they will consider staffing and op- erating it. Second, I want to let you know the harm that is caused to our members each day by failure of the BIA and IHS to remedy the contract support costs shortfall of our self-governance agreement with the BIA and IHS.