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Pueblo keeps road open
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MAY 1, 2000 San Ildefonso Pueblo and the Department of Energy reached an agreement on Sunday which keeps State Road 4 open. On December 31, 1999, a 50-year lease between the Pueblo and the state ended, leaving the status of the road in doubt.
After getting a four month extension on the lease, negotiations between the DOE and the Pueblo came to a halt last week. The DOE offered the tribe an amount of money for a 20-year lease but the tribe rejected it. The tribe said they would place cement barricades on the road today.
The new agreement calls for a long term but limited release. Details of the agreement will not be released until later this week, but there will be money paid to San Ildefonso. The cost will be split between the DOE and Los Alamos County. The agreement was praised by current Governor Perry Martinez as preserving the tribe's sovereignty. (In an unrelated incident, the DOE accidentally transported hazardous waste across San Ildefonso sacred land in December. They apologized to the Pueblo.) Staff and news wires contributed to this report.
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