Reclamation Of The Interstate Stream Commission Essay
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INTRODUCTION
• It’s great to be here with you today.
• Talk about your perspective of working with Reclamation in your role at the Interstate Stream Commission.
• Talk about your perspective of Reclamation, what’s it’s like to be Commissioner, and any thoughts about your end of term.
Today, I would like to talk about:
• Reclamation’s Present Role and Future Involvement with Indian water rights settlements.
• And I would like to highlight a few of the settlements where Reclamation has been actively engaged:
o Taos Pueblo Water Rights Settlement, Hualapai Water Rights Settlement, and Blackfeet Tribe Water Rights Settlement.
Present Role and Future Involvement:
• This Administration has strongly supported Indian water rights settlements and the water needs of tribal communities.
• Indian water rights settlements are consistent with the federal trust responsibility to tribes and with federal policy—promoting Indian self-determination and economic self-sufficiency.
• As I have witnessed here first-hand, settlements can end decades of controversy and contention concerning water issues—among tribes and neighboring communities—replacing those conflicts with certainty, fostering cooperation in water resource management and promoting healthy economies.
• Thank you Jennifer Faler, Art Valverde, Kathy Dickinson and Pat Page, for your work on the settlements.
• Reclamation participates in settlements because of our Western water projects, and also because of the Bureau’s