House hearing focuses on future of Navajo trust
Friday, June 20, 2008
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Trust
The
House Natural
Resources Committee held an oversight hearing on Thursday to discuss the
Utah Navajo Trust Fund.
Under an act of Congress from 1933, Utah manages oil and gas royalties for members of the
Navajo Nation who live in San Juan County. Tribal members are concerned that they have been cheated out of millions of dollars.
A lawsuit pending in federal court seeks to determine whether Navajo beneficiaries are owed money. The state has made it clear that it wants to relinquish its role as a manager.
It would then be up to Congress to devise a new system. Witnesses discussed handing duties to the tribe, a nonprofit corporation that represents Navajos in Utah or another entity.
Get the Story:
Congress to pick new Navajo Trust manager
(The Salt Lake Tribune 6/20)
Who'll take charge of Navajo fund? (The Salt Lake City Deseret News 6/20)
Committee Notice:
Full
Committee Oversight Hearing On The Utah Navajo Trust Fund (June 19, 2008)
Court Decision:
Pelt
v. Utah (March 14, 2008)
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