{"id":446798,"date":"2026-03-11T12:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=446798"},"modified":"2026-03-11T21:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:03:05","slug":"testimony-scott-cameron-of-department-of-the-interior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/03\/11\/testimony-scott-cameron-of-department-of-the-interior\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimony: Scott Cameron of Department of the Interior"},"content":{"rendered":"
Testimony: Scott Cameron of Department of the Interior<\/div>\r\n
Oversight Hearing on \u201cExamining Federal Policies Governing Indian Water Rights Settlements,\u201d and Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S. 953, Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025<\/div>\r\n
Wednesday, March 11, 2026<\/div>\r\n
Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n

<\/p>\r\n• PDF: Written Testimony<\/a> \r\n

<\/P>\r\nThe following is the written testimony of Scott Cameron, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the Department of the Interior.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nCameron appears before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs<\/a> for an Oversight Hearing on \u201cExamining Federal Policies Governing Indian Water Rights Settlements,\u201d and Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S.953, Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025<\/a>. He provides testimony about tribal water rights and about the legislation to benefit the Hopi Tribe<\/a>, the Navajo Nation<\/a> and the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe<\/a>.\r\n

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\r\nMr. Scott Cameron
\r\nPrincipal Deputy Assistant Secretary \u2013 Water and Science
\r\nExercising the Delegated Authority of Commissioner
\r\nBureau of Reclamation
\r\nDepartment of the Interior
\r\nWashington, DC\r\n

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Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Notice<\/div>\r\nOversight Hearing on \u201cExamining Federal Policies Governing Indian Water Rights Settlements,\u201d and Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S. 953, Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025<\/a> (March 11, 2026)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Cameron of Department of the Interior testifies before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on March 11, 2026.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":446799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20,13,1,14],"tags":[5366,118,464,24,6216,5427,213,7220,91,154,1744,153],"class_list":["post-446798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-indian-trust","category-law","category-national","category-politics","tag-119th","tag-doi","tag-hopi","tag-navajo","tag-s-953","tag-san-juan-southern-paiute","tag-scia","tag-scott-cameron","tag-senate","tag-treaties","tag-usbr","tag-water","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/11\/Scott-Cameron-03-11-26-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1Seq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446798"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447235,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446798\/revisions\/447235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}