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Final EDS report available online
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2002

Last updated: 6:54 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

An electronic copy of the final EDS report on trust reform is available for downloading.

Completed January 24, the report is the culmination of a several-month assessment of trust taken by the management consulting firm. Secretary of Interior Gale Norton hired EDS last summer to provide an independent review of trust activities.

The final version contains a "roadmap" or timeline to implementing hundreds of suggestions. Some, such as a recommendation to "create a beneficiary approach to trust activities and service delivery" are considered "ongoing" activities.

Norton has concurred with a number of EDS' recommendations, including the suggestion to appoint a single person in charge of trust. She advanced the Bureau of Indian Trust Assets Management (BITAM) and its own Assistant Secretary based on this idea.

EDS was paid nearly $3 million for its effort. The Department of Interior plans to hire the company for more projects, including one to document, for the first time, all the government's trust responsibilities.

Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb also told Indianz.Com today that EDS would be helping define the "business model" for trust at the department

Get the Report:
DOI Trust Reform: Final Report and Roadmap (1/24)

Today on Indianz.Com:
Monitor's 'only hope' seen as termination (2/4)
Memo sounded early warning on TAAMS (2/4)

Relevant Links:
EDS Corporation - http://www.eds.com
Indian Trust, Department of Interior - http://www.doi.gov/indiantrust
Indian Trust: Cobell v. Norton - http://www.indiantrust.com
Trust Reform, NCAI - http://130.94.214.68/main/pages/
issues/other_issues/trust_reform.asp

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