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FEBRUARY 14, 2001

Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Representative Heather Wilson (R-NM) on Tuesday asked Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to rescind a decision which corrected the eastern boundary of Sandia Pueblo.

The two lawmakers said the ruling, issued on January 19 by the former Interior Solicitor John Leshy, is legally flawed and jeopardizes potential settlements on the tribe's claim to 10,000 acres in the Sandia Mountains. However, the ruling doesn't go into effect until 2002 and only if the parties affected by the decision can't come to an agreement.

Get the Story:
Voiding of Sandia Boundary Opinion Asked (The Albuquerque Journal 2/14)

View a map of the Land Claim/Settlement Area:
Sandia Pueblo Claim Area (Sandia Pueblo)

Relevant Links:
Sandia Pueblo - www.sandiapueblo.nsn.us
Bernalillo County - www.bernco.gov
Senator Pete Domenici - www.senate.gov/~domenici
Rep. Heather Wilson - hillsource.house.gov/wilson/index.asp

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Pueblo continues Sandia Mountain fight (Tribal Law 12/13)
Domenici: Pueblo shouldn't own Mountain (Tribal Law 12/12)
Interior seeks comments on Pueblo resurvey (Tribal Law 12/12)
Landowners thrown out of Pueblo claim (Tribal Law 11/20)