{"id":33329,"date":"2023-10-31T13:32:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=33329"},"modified":"2023-10-31T13:37:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:37:10","slug":"cronkite-news-tribes-share-frustrations-with-infrastructure-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2023\/10\/31\/cronkite-news-tribes-share-frustrations-with-infrastructure-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Cronkite News: Tribes share frustrations with infrastructure funding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hopi leader tells panel that red tape, financial hurdles put aid out of reach<\/div>\r\n
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<\/P>\r\nWASHINGTON – The chairman of the Hopi tribe told a Senate panel Wednesday that promises of federal funding remain just that – promises – for smaller tribes for whom the money is inaccessible because of bureaucratic and financial hurdles.

<\/P>\r\nThe remarks by Hopi Chairman Timothy Nuvangyaoma were part of a Senate Indian Affairs Committee roundtable on challenges<\/a> tribes are facing in getting projects approved under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act and others. Other tribal leaders from across the country shared similar frustrations.

<\/P>\r\nNuvangyaoma discussed how federal officials offered to fund improvements to the tribe’s power system if the Hopi<\/a> could come up with a $10 million match – more than half the tribe’s annual $16 million general fund budget. He said that would force the tribe to choose between paying the cost match or funding schools and elderly services for that year.

<\/P>\r\n“There’s a lot of impacted tribes just like us that don’t have the financial capability or stability to make these kinds of cost matches, to take advantage of such a great opportunity that’s on the table here for us and it bothers us,” Nuvangyaoma told lawmakers.

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