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MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2002

The Bush administration wants to create a national Indian energy office, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb said.

The Federal Indian Energy and Minerals Office will consolidate trust, land and other services. The goal would be to help tribes develop their land, McCaleb said in Wyoming last week.

The new entity would be based on the Farmington Indian Minerals Office (FIMO) in New Mexico, McCaleb said. FIMO was created in response to a lawsuit by Navajo trust beneficiaries.

FIMO consolidates various trust- and land-related functions of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Minerals Management Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the Office of Special Trustee.

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Indian energy policy sought (AP 8/17)