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CATEGORY E

Respondents who indicated that they are not interested in pursuing plans aimed at manufacturing and/or

industrial development.

CATEGORY E

Definition of Category E. Category E includes a total of eleven (11) respondents who indicated through their survey responses that they are not interested in pursuring plans aimed at manufacturing and/or indusrial development on their Reservations. They are:

Blue Lake Rancheria

Comments: We are too small; don't have need for a PI system.

'Duckwater Shoshone Tribe

Sacramento

Phoenix

Comments: Nearest rail service is 160 miles away; trucking lines are 75 miles; nearest large city is 250 miles.

Manzanita Tribe

Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Conncticut

Sacramento

Eastern

Comments. We do not have a Resevation yet. In place utilities for water, sewer, gas, electric, roads. We have an on-staff planner to assist in TA.

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Comments: Do not want to (develop and define) manufacturing/industrialize in our Village.

Shingle Springs Rancheria

Sacramento

Comments: Economic development on Reservation is impossible because Tribe is "land-locked". Do not have public access. BI'A has refused to recify the problem.

*Southern Ute Indian Tribe

Albuquerque

Comments: Too remotely locatd and inacessible with respct to heavy industry.

Tonto Apache Tribe

Phoenix

Comments: We dop not have any need now nor do we anticipate any need in the future.

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo

Albuquerque

• Denotes Remote Location

APPENDIX A

THE QUESTIONNAIRE

& RELATED DOCUMENTATION

*NCAI RESOLUTION #94-DEN-EF/ICH-156

*HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL TRIBAL
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (NTDA)

* APRIL 15, 1995 NTDA INTRODUCTORY LETTER TO 546 TRIBAL ENTITIES NATIONWIDE FROM JOHN SUNCHILD, SR.

* QUESTIONNAIRE ON THE UNMET PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS NATIONWIDE

* NTDA JUNE 1, 1995 PROGRESS LETTER TO 546 TRIBAL ENTITIES NATIONWIDE FROM EUGENE A. BEGAY

*NCAI RESOLUTION #SPK-95-042

* GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

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Resolution # 94-DEN-EF/ICH-156

Title: American Indian Infrastructure

WHEREAS, we, the members of the National Congress of American Indians of the United States, invoking the divine blessing of the creator upon our efforts and purposes, in order to preserve for ourselves and our descendants rights secured under Indian treaties and agreements with the United States, and all other rights and benefits to which we are entitled under the law and constitution of United States to enlighten the public toward a better understanding of the Indian people, to preserve Indian cultural values, and otherwise promote the welfare of the Indian people, do hereby establish and submit the following resolution:

WHEREAS, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is the oldest and largest national organization established in 1944 and comprised of representatives of and advocates for national, regional, and local tribal concerns; and

WHEREAS, the health, safety, welfare, education, economic and employment opportunity, and preservation of cultural and natural resources are primary goals and objectives of NCAI; and

WHEREAS, reservation infrastructure are a serious prerequisite need for development of Indian economic development; and

WHEREAS, one of the White House priority initiatives is for developing the economy on Indian reservations; and

WHEREAS, reservation infrastructure is basically defined as industrial water supply and disposal treatment, including electrical power supply, roads and bridges (where necessary); and

WHEREAS, the Clinton Administration lacks a focused Indian economic policy, including resources for physical infrastructure that are necessary for developing reservation economies and communities; and

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ANNUAL CONFERENCE AT DENVER, COLORADO

NOVEMBER 13-18, 1994

WHEREAS, as a result of this policy vacuum, neither the federal agencies nor the Congress have funding to realistically pay for the great backlog of unmet reservation physical infrastructure; and

WHEREAS, it is prerequisite and appropriate that the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch be appraised of these needs and costs as soon as possible; and

WHEREAS, all tribes desiring funding for infrastructures will be solicited to submit preliminary design and costs thereof to a nongovernmental Indian business consulting firm (to be selected) with the professional capability to survey and gather these infrastructure needs and costs; and

WHEREAS, there is a serious lack of resources for tribes remotely located from metropolitan areas and railroads relative to infrastructure connections; and

WHEREAS, there is a real need to inventory the needs and cost of reservation infrastructure nationwide; and

WHEREAS, certain federal agencies, i.e., BIA, ANA, DOA, EDA, FHA, etc., possess authority and program funds to grant or contract with non-governmental Indian business firms to conduct a nationwide survey on the total needs and costs of reservation infrastructures for the purpose as defined herein; now

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the NCAI underscores its commitment expressed in the November 1993 convention and the June 1994 Midyear Conference to have the Clinton Administration and the Congress implement a policy to provide financing for the unmet reservation physical infrastructures.

CERTIFICATION

The foregoing resolution was adopted at the 1994 Annual Convention of the National Congress of American Indians, held at the Sheraton Tech Center Hotel in Denver, Colorado, on November 13-18, 1994 with a quorum present.

ATTEST:

gaiashkibos, President

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S. Diane Kelley, Recording Secretary

Adopted by the General Assembly during the 1994 Annual Conference, held at the Sheraton Tech

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