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MONDAY, JULY 30, 2001

Tribes and outside investors have been teaming up to start power plants on reservations, a move which can be financially lucrative as well as risky.

The Fort Mojave Tribe of Arizona and the Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla of California are two who who have sought to host power plants. Since states don't have regulatory control over reservations, the plants can be approved and developed faster.

The Bishop Paiute Tribe of California bought into one man's dream of an environmentally-friendly power plant but now appears to have been snookered. The tribe had signed an agreement with Michael J. Marshall, who spent time in prison for fraud and larceny, to host a plant but has no intention of following through.

Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb plans on pushing energy development in Indian Country as one of his priorities at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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Energy crisis gives juice to new trend: power plants on American Indian reservations (AP 7/30)
Promised Power Plant Fuels Cries of Fraud (The Los Angeles Times 7/29)

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