• Opening Statements • Panel 1: Carl Artman | Q&A • Panel 2 | Q&A [includes more of Carl Artman] The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a hearing this morning on backlogs at the Interior Department. The hearing addresses backlogs in land-into-trust applications, environmental impact statements, probates, appraisals and lease approvals. The following witnesses testified:
THE HONORABLE CARL J. ARTMANCommittee Notice:
Assistant Secretary, for Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior
THE HONORABLE WILLIAM RHODES
Governor, Gila River Indian Community
THE HONORABLE RON HIS HORSE IS THUNDER
Chairman, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
THE HONORABLE ROBERT CHICKS
Vic President, National Congress of American Indian Midwest Region, President of Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, Co-Chair of the NCAI Land Recovery Task Force, President of the Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes, President of the Great Lakes Intertrbal Council, Bowler, Wisconsin
Accompanied by: MR. JOHN DOSSETT, General Counsel, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, DC
MR. FRANK BIGELOW
Supervisor, Madera County Board of Supervisors
MR. DOUG NASH
Director, of Indian Estate Planning and Probating, Institute of Indian Estate Planning and Probate
OVERSIGHT HEARING on Backlogs at the Department of the Interior: Land in to Trust Applications; Environmental Impact Statements; Probate; Appraisals and Lease Approvals (October 4, 2007) $rl Interior Department - http://www.doi.gov Related Stories:
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