Reauthorize Housing Relocation Under the Navajo-Hopi Relocation Program

Distribution of Radionuclide and Trace-Elements in Ground Water,
Grasses, and Surficial Sediments Associated with the Alluvial Aquifer
along the Rio Puerco River, Northeastern Arizona—A Reconnaissance
Sampling Program. Retained in committee files.'
Follow-up letter from the Relocation Commission to the U.S.G.S. request-
ing modifications to the scope of the final report to be generated by the

proposed study of the Rio Puerco River 268

Letter from the U.S.G.S. to the Relocation Commission responding to the
Commission's request for additional information to be included in the

proposed study project 269

Morris, Richard C, memorandum to William P. Clark, concerning Navajo

and Hopi Land Settlement Act 207

New Mexico House of Representatives, resolution 221

Preliminary Assessment of Water Quality in the Alluvial Aquifer of the
Rio Puerco River Basin, Northeastern Arizona. Retained in committee
files.2
Proposal submitted to the Relocation Commission by the U.S.G.S. for

further studies of the Rio Puerco River 240

Summary of studies of the water quality of the Rio Puerco, prepared by

Mr. David Shaw-Serdar, Research Officer, for the Navajo-Hopi Indian

Relocation Commission 225

'Copies of this report can be purchased from: U.S. Geological Survey Books and Open-File
Reports Section, Federal Center, Building 41, Box 25425, Denver, CO 80225.

2 Copies of this report can be purchased from: U.S. Geological Survey Books and Open-File
Reports Section, Federal Center, Building 810, Box 25425, Denver, CO 80225.

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REAUTHORIZE HOUSING RELOCATION UNDER THE NAVAJO-HOPI RELOCATION PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 9. 1987

U.S. Senate.
Select Committee On Indian Affairs.

Washington. DC The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 3:43 p.m.. in room 4S5. Russell Senate Office Building, Hon. Daniel K. Inouye (chairman of the committee) presiding.

Present: Senators Inouye, DeConcini, Daschle, Murkowski. and McCain. Also present: Representative John J. Rhodes, HI.

STATEMENT OF HON. DANIEL K. INOUYE. U.S. SENATOR FROM HAWAD, CHADXMAN, SELECT COMMnTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS

The Chairman. The committee will please come to order.

S. 1236 is a bill to increase the annual housing authorization for the Navajo-Hopi Relocation Commission and to increase the Commission's authorization level for payment of bonuses to individuals who voluntarily apply for benefits under Public Law 93-531, the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act.

Perhaps no other current issue in Indian affairs is as important or as urgent or as sensitive as the resettlement of Navajo people from lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe under the 1974 act. The uprooting of any people for any purpose can only be painful and distressing to them and to those responsible for carrying out resettlement.

Every Member of the Congress has some awareness of the relocation process and the disruption of the many lives the relocation has necessitated. No other Indian condition has so captured the attention of the American people and their representatives in Congress for such an extended period of time.

As originally envisioned by the Congress, the entire process of moving Navajo people from lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe and Hopi people from lands partitioned to the Navajo was to take five years. The Navajo-Hopi Relocation Commission was established and funded as an agency responsible for the movement of these people.

It has now been 6 years, and the job is far from done. The myriad of problems associated with moving 10,000 traditional Navajo people from lands they have occupied for about 100 years has proven far more difficult than anticipated.

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