norm dicks of washington state h r two thousand and forty dealing with matters pertaining to the indian nation introduced by rick larsen and also washington state and h r ten thirty three bills before the committee and my friend mr kildee as stated earlier i support these three bills two hundred percent anything that would be of benefit to our native american community mr chairman as you know i fully support discussion i i want to take the time to welcome and i will submit for the record my comments on the legislation ten thirty five welcome mr bracy chairman of the board of trustees  for powers in economic development for indian affairs department of interior and you will be testifying on a chart and sixty one an h r twenty forty secretary and we do have your prepared testimony will be made part of the i was not made aware that there were any issues or reasons for us to agree that the tribe needed exception to our  problem in the bush administration taking office or learning to trust in the sense that there was a reluctance to do so at best for a number of years after carl aardman became assistant secretary of thousand and six i think pledged to eliminate the backlog trust transaction and he did so and certainly currently a central office we do not as far as i know we do not have any  remains to be seen one of the concerns we have had for looking at land into trust central office is to make sure really that there were no political problems from the local  the committee and the administration to move this legislation thank you no other questions thank the gentleman generally from wyoming thank you mr chairman i do have one question you made clear in your statement that the interior department's opposition to h r twenty forty is due to the treatment of this land acquisition and in turn the lack of attention given to concerns of off boundaries of the tribe preservation and the difference is we have three paragraphs that apply don't want to go briefly through what those are the first one is that we have we would have to look at the location of the land relative to state boundaries and its distance from the band of the tribes reservation and to be considered as follows if the distance between the tribe reservation and the land to be acquired increased the secretary shall give greater scrutiny to the tribe justification tribe does not have a reservation but then the other two that would be applicable is that we would have to look we would if the land is being acquired for business purposes the tribe shall provide a plan which anticipated economic benefits local communities impacted by the land acquisition proposed by h r twenty forty not that i know of no but i just don't know and further mr chairman i understand there is a road contained within these lands being taken into trust under a charter sixty one is that road currently used for any other purpose besides access to current tribal lands and if so how would those be impacted by this our next panel is composed of the following mr arnie pin the whole travel council member from forks washington company by the arm will walk toward the chairman of the whole ladies and gentlemen we welcome you to the panel we do have your prepared testimonies they will be made part of the record is actually read and each panel member proceeding in the order in which i people have always lived near the mouth of the river on the pacific ocean this is a picture where the village is located but if you houses have been destroyed by suffered from the federal government one of the most frustrating issues has been the inability of our tribe to get the bureau to take land into trust on our behalf and this is why we're here today because what happened to our tribe in the past forty years we did not have a defined reservation boundary and under current federal regulations do not have the ability to take land into trust like other tribes the problem we face today is that all of our future trust applications are treated as reservations what that means is that our future trust applications must go through a more cumbersome process trust applications are often met with