Secretary Jewell reiterates push for land-into-trust approvals

Friday, April 25, 2014  

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell reiterated her plan to approve more land-into-trust applications.

Since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has placed 242,703 acres in trust. Jewell hopes to double that figure in the next two years.

“My goal is to take 500,000 acres of fee lands into trust and I encourage the tribes to continue to submit their applications and emphasize this administration's commitment to processing these applications,” Jewell said at a tribal summit in Washington on Thursday, according to a press release.

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