{"id":722414,"date":"2026-07-29T11:49:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=722414"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:35:33","slug":"testimony-scott-cameron-department-of-the-interior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/29\/testimony-scott-cameron-department-of-the-interior\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimony: Scott Cameron, Department of the Interior"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Testimony: Scott Cameron, Department of the Interior<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S.3573, S.3617, S.4368, S.4417 &#038; S.4890<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Wednesday, July 29, 2026<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<strong>&#8226; PDF: <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/7-29-26-scott-cameron\/>Testimony<\/a>\r\n<\/strong>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nScott Cameron, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the <a href=https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/>Department of the Interior<\/a>, testifies before the <a href=https:\/\/indian.senate.gov\/>Senate Committee on Indian Affairs<\/a> on July 29, 2026.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nCameron appears at a <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/28\/witness-list-for-senate-committee-on-indian-affairs-hearing-on-tribal-water-rights-legislation\/>legislative hearing to receive testimony on S.3573, S.3617, S.4368, S.4417 and S.489<\/a>. He provides testimony on all five tribal water rights bills. \r\n<P><\/p>\r\nMr. Scott Cameron<BR>\r\nPrincipal Deputy Assistant Secretary \u2014 Water and Science<BR>\r\nDepartment of the Interior<BR>\r\nWashington, DC\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/29\/testimony-scott-cameron-department-of-the-interior\/7-29-26-scott-cameron-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-722218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"2200\" data-attachment-id=\"722218\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/29\/testimony-scott-cameron-department-of-the-interior\/7-29-26-scott-cameron-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/29\/7.29.26-Scott-Cameron-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1700,2200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Testimony: Scott Cameron\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony of Scott Cameron, Department of the Interior. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S. 3573, S. 3617, S. 4368, S. 4417 &amp;#038; S. 4890. July 29, 2026.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony of Scott Cameron, Department of the Interior. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S. 3573, S. 3617, S. 4368, S. 4417 &amp;#038; S. 4890. July 29, 2026.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/29\/7.29.26-Scott-Cameron-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/29\/7.29.26-Scott-Cameron-1.jpg\" alt=\"Testimony: Scott Cameron\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-722218\" \/><\/a>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/29\/testimony-scott-cameron-department-of-the-interior\/7-29-26-scott-cameron-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-722219\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"2200\" data-attachment-id=\"722219\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/29\/testimony-scott-cameron-department-of-the-interior\/7-29-26-scott-cameron-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/29\/7.29.26-Scott-Cameron-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1700,2200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Testimony: Scott Cameron\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony of Scott Cameron, Department of the Interior. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S. 3573, S. 3617, S. 4368, S. 4417 &amp;#038; S. 4890. July 29, 2026.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony of Scott Cameron, Department of the Interior. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S. 3573, S. 3617, S. 4368, S. 4417 &amp;#038; S. 4890. July 29, 2026.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/29\/7.29.26-Scott-Cameron-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/29\/7.29.26-Scott-Cameron-2.jpg\" alt=\"Testimony: Scott Cameron\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-722219\" \/><\/a>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/29\/testimony-scott-cameron-department-of-the-interior\/7-29-26-scott-cameron-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-722220\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"2200\" data-attachment-id=\"722220\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/29\/testimony-scott-cameron-department-of-the-interior\/7-29-26-scott-cameron-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/29\/7.29.26-Scott-Cameron-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1700,2200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Testimony: Scott Cameron\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony of Scott Cameron, Department of the Interior. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S. 3573, S. 3617, S. 4368, S. 4417 &amp;#038; S. 4890. July 29, 2026.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony of Scott Cameron, Department of the Interior. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S. 3573, S. 3617, S. 4368, S. 4417 &amp;#038; S. 4890. July 29, 2026.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/29\/7.29.26-Scott-Cameron-3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/29\/7.29.26-Scott-Cameron-3.jpg\" alt=\"Testimony: Scott Cameron\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-722220\" \/><\/a>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/29\/testimony-scott-cameron-department-of-the-interior\/7-29-26-scott-cameron-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-722221\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"2200\" data-attachment-id=\"722221\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/29\/testimony-scott-cameron-department-of-the-interior\/7-29-26-scott-cameron-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/29\/7.29.26-Scott-Cameron-4.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1700,2200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Testimony: Scott Cameron\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony of Scott Cameron, Department of the Interior. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S. 3573, S. 3617, S. 4368, S. 4417 &amp;#038; S. 4890. July 29, 2026.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony of Scott Cameron, Department of the Interior. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S. 3573, S. 3617, S. 4368, S. 4417 &amp;#038; S. 4890. July 29, 2026.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/29\/7.29.26-Scott-Cameron-4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/29\/7.29.26-Scott-Cameron-4.jpg\" alt=\"Testimony: Scott Cameron\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-722221\" \/><\/a>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Notice<\/div>\r\n<a href=https:\/\/www.indian.senate.gov\/hearings\/legislative-hearing-to-receive-testimony-on-s-3573-s-3617-s-4368-s-4417-s-4890\/>Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S. 3573, S. 3617, S. 4368, S. 4417 &#038; S. 4890<\/a> (July 29, 2026)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Cameron, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the Department of the Interior, testifies before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on July 29, 2026.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":722218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,20,13,1,14],"tags":[5366,2267,42,38,118,167,1922,182,7631,7632,7633,7644,7635,213,7220,91,153,2378],"class_list":["post-722414","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-agua-caliente","tag-arizona","tag-california","tag-doi","tag-new-mexico","tag-pechanga","tag-pueblo","tag-s-3573","tag-s-3617","tag-s-4368","tag-s-4417","tag-s-4890","tag-scia","tag-scott-cameron","tag-senate","tag-water","tag-yavapai-apache","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-31VQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/29\/7.29.26-Scott-Cameron-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722414","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=722414"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722423,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722414\/revisions\/722423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}