Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S.648 & S.1911

• S.648, the Technical Correction to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation Water Rights Settlement Act of 2021. The bill makes technical corrections to perviously enacted water rights settlement for the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation in Nevada and Idaho in order to help the tribes recover interest that was lost on their funds held in trust at the Department of the Interior.

• S.1911, the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes of the Fort Belknap Indian Community Water Rights Settlement Act of 2021. The bill ratifies a water rights compact for the Fort Belknap Indian Community, based in Montana.

Witness List and Testimony

The Honorable Andrew Werk – [Testimony: PDF]
President
Fort Belknap Indian Community
Harlem, Montana

The Honorable Bryan Todd Newland – [Testimony: PDF]
Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs
Department of the Interior
Accompanied by Brent Esplin, Missouri Basin Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior

The Honorable Brian Thomas – [Testimony: PDF]
Chairman
Shoshone-Paiute of the Duck Valley Reservation
Owyhee, Nevada

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Notice

Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S. 648 & S. 1911 (October 8, 2021)