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Native Village of Barrow Monthly Tribal Council Special Meeting June 7
, 2013 2:25 p .m. Minutes

1. Call to Order : Thomas Olemaun called the meeting to order @ 2:20 p.m.

2. Invocation: George Olemaun gave invocation.

3. Roll Call: Jaime Hopson called roll

- call, Present: Thomas Olemaun, Fannie Suvlu, Marjorie Solomon, Dorothy Edwardsen, George Olemaun, Doreen Adams Ahgeak, Doreen Lampe

Guest: Michael Haller, Mike Routhier , David Johnston, Tommy Beaudreau, Lakeisha
Harrison and Pat Pourchot

Staff: Jaime Hopson & Martha Koonaloak

4. Approval of Agenda : Dorothy Edwardsen moved to approve agenda, seconded by Fannie Suvlu, Question called by George Olemaun.

5. Meeting with DOI Assistant Secretary Tommy Beaudreau

Thomas Olemaun said I will pass this on to Tommy Beaudreau

. Tommy Beaudreau said thank you very much setting aside s ome time for us this
afternoon

, we had a Public session in Anchorage yesterday and t hen we had a Public session that ended just a few minutes ago over at the Assembly center and then were going to have another session for the General Public again this afternoon
at 5:00 . T he purpose of our visits and our discussions over the last couple da ys has been focus on following through on our experience and observations coming out of shells operations last summer as you know coming out of Shell’s 2012 drilling program and all the problems that they experience, bringing the containment system online, problems with the Noble Discover Drill ship, problems with the Kulluck and the grounding off of Kodiak

. Secretary Salazar asked me and our team here to do a review of Shells 2012 program and pull out of that experience the lessons learned and what we sho uld be doing going forward to make sure that any off

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done safely and responsively that is the report I have prepared and delivered to the Secretary and it contains including the account Shells experience and the most important part in that report is really the set of observations and recommendations
that we included in it and fundamental to those recommendations was that DOI
needs to take the standards that came out that we imposed on Shell as well as think
about add itional Arctic specific standards put them in regulations make them applicable not only to any future activity

, Shell might propose but we know

, Conoco Phillips is out there, Stat Oil is potentially out there we need to codify and establish in our regulati ons standards specific to Alaska so that is what we have been talking about in Anchorage and then today in Barrow as well what were peoples experiences with Shells program

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W hat are the types of standards we should put place through this rule making place d on those experiences and try to get early input into it were not required to have sort of outreach like this but in a place like Alaska and in a place like North Slope our thought is it is extremely important to engage everybody very early to get thought s and comments very early that we can keep in our mind as we shape propose rules and then come back with a proposal that people can look at and give us reaction to but we want to have everyone ’ s thoughts in our minds as we are even setting these rules down on paper so that is where we are

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The last time I was in Barrow was in Febr uary and met with numbe r of folks while I was up here, I participate with Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission Convention at the time that fed into the report we prepared and this is really a continuation of all of that work and all of that effort and I really appreciate everyone in the room willingness to continue working with us stay with us as we try to go about this in the right way, fundamental and most important to everything tha t we are doing i n my mind we knew Secretary Jules certainly feels this way is if Oil and Gas activity goes forward it has got to be done safely it has got to be done responsibly and up here that means that it protects in particular subsistence so our ne w Secretary gets that she is very supportive just as Secretary Salazar was that is what we’re doing and that is why we’re here and again I really appreciate how participatory everyone has been every step of the way with this.

Dorothy Edwardsen said you’r e talking about Arctic Specific Standards ? I this going to be something written in? Tommy Beaudreau said yes, j ust to give you an example with Shell we put a lot of requirements and conditions on Shell through the Exploration plan . F or example the containment system that we required Shell to have which it failed to test and deploy, Mark was down in Washington and observed3 | P a g e

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the test that failed and because that test failed we did not allow them to drill Dorothy Edwardsen said where did they do the test ? Tommy Beaudreau said in Bellingham Washington so for that reason we did not allow them to drill hydrocarbon other examples were back up here in the Beaufort during Whaling migration for the hunt the shorten drilling season in the Chukchi to allow time for open water response if there was a late season activity there is a lot of concern obviously about the ability to respond or recover o il in the water in icy conditions I share that concern and frankly I think part of the answer is y ou got to be able to deal
with o il at the source if yo u have a loss of o il control and you have to have time in open water to respond not in the situation, mean stop trying to respond in ice so there are other sort of examples like that but what we want to do is we want to take those out of the conditions in the Exploration plan and then writing in the regulations so that were not doing it on a plan by plan or operator by operator basis but rather have a set of standard specific to working in Alaska that apply to

ev erybody

. Dorothy Edwardsen said so when will those standard come out as trial ? Tommy Beaudreau said what we would like to do and the reason why were engaging early we would like to have those standards out as draft by the end of the year so again ever yone can look at those and react to them, the reason why we want to do that Shell has not said when they want to resume activity were presuming although they have not said this were anticipating they may propose activity for

2014

. Conoco Phillips is out th ere they said they are not going forward in 2014 but they are still out so we want to have these proposed standards out and in the Public by the end of this year so that if we get proposals for new activity early next year we got those on the street so tha t is part of what is driving our timing.

Thomas Olemaun said I know you have the 2013

- 2017 for both Chukchi & Beaufort everything always happen after the fact without brainstorming together , have BSEE BOEM all the agencies together, we as a Federal reco gnized tribe, the Borough, State municipal government everything is on Federal waters and as a Federal recognized tribe we have that authority to work Govern to Govern relations and over the years we keep telling this generations MMS back then about trad itional knowledge all these harvesting about our marine mammals, half our marine mammals are threaten or endangered already and Industries keep saying they bought leases out there in our Federal waters and it is better to have everybody at one table looki ng at the scope of work, what is happening and have a five year plan but yet were talking about all this stuff by end of the year, yes we have a deadline for the five year plan and you have the five year plan but yet you’re going to talk about the outcomes of Shell 2012 , it is like working backwards we would rather have everything on the4 | P a g e

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table before all the Industries, Governments approve the five year plan , o ver the years as a Federal recognized tribe it is nice to have a govern to govern consultation
li ke this, were elected by our Tribal members and were the voices of our Tribal members, we are the elected Tribal council for the members of Native Village of

Barrow

. O ver the years we need more communication from the Federal agencies because

assessment an d all these other stuff, State municipal Governments, Corporations they have it made with all revenues from Prudhoe Bay but us as a non

- for profit tribal government we just survive by compact funds, program dollars, were program services basically for com munity of Barrow and Barrow is growing but yet were limited funds for services but if there was an assessment impact study all these stuff that would bring in revenues economically as Barrow being the Hub of the North Slope we need more facilities, Daycare , Theatre

, But (inaudible) this afternoon, it was a test and error for Shell Oil if we’re going to talk about the 2012 incidents and we keep hearing in the news they want to get out of that area so they won’t get taxed and all that other stuff you read on a paper, t hey rush, rush, rush without making sure everything is going to be alright but yet you have incidents nationwide and it is sad to say that happen but yet if it is going to happen up here in the future you’re dealing with currents, ice and all these other s tuff and when Industries do their testing there is no currents, land lock islands all these Oil industries clean up

. Stat Oil they go to Norway and think it is Arctic waters, any place they go its different no place in the world it’s the same and when the y do all these testing’s it is
all different , o ur elders and Captains they talk about the ice current, it is just common sense that when they do the EIS there needs to be more traditional knowledge in that area, you don’t need no company to do your homewor k talk with the real people up here on the North Slope , were going to live here forever we depend on our ocean for harvesting were seasonal hunters up here but yet in the future ten to fifteen years from now were going to have rigs up here, what is going

t o be the assessment ? W hat is going to be the accumulative impact so it is nice to get ahead of ourselves instead of after the fact and making sure everyone is on the same page because every organization you meet has their own Constitution and Bylaws
and we as a Federal government and the jurisdiction is Federal waters, we have that jurisdiction too , n ot the State , n ot the Municipal Government, it is not State waters it is Federal waters so as a Federal tribe we need to work and see what the pro’s and
con’s are. Dorothy Edwardsen said because Shell is not coming back guess who is not coming back the Coast guard is not coming back and we thought they were coming up here for the people of the North Slope but No they are tagging along with Industry so it5 | P a g e

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kinds of tells us their hearts are not here in the coastal waters not unless there is industry around so we see true colors of the Coast Guards and who their really protecting, it is not the people it’s Industry

. Thomas Olemaun said (inaudible ) Continental Sh ell it is the whole State of Alaska all the continental Shell yes three miles is State but after that it is all Federal so you’re not just speaking about the North Slope it is the whole State, Western, North Western, South East so each organization you mee t with is different they live off the

waters too

. Here we have North Slope Borough, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope, Native Village of Barrow and City but yet it is to put everybody on the same page, we keep saying this over and over you’re going to hear the same stories over the years and we live off the ocean but yet when something drastic happens what is going to happen

. Dorothy Edwardsen said I think something drastic has happen , t he government says
there is safe drilling in Prudhoe but they don’t see the impact it has on our people, they don’t see, there is studies on how many young kids especially the Nuiqsut area dying of cancer at twenty years and under and the Federal government has not come up to do the stud y it is going to take an Erin Brockovitch to maybe get money
from the Federal Government and do that

. We have high rates of Asthma, high rates of respiratory illness, different types of cancer and as we speak there are more people and families that are in the Seattle area, young kids, we even loss a young man who was nineteen who had been battling cancer for many years and there is another one who was two or three who just died early this year, every summer we see this big yellow cloud when we have prevaili ng winds from the east this turning greenish

. I’m sure the Community of Nuiqsut gets the brunt of it

. Tommy Beaudreau said I have heard from Nuiqsut on that issue especially Air issue, Asthma, Respiratory issues especially with kids

. Dorothy Edwardsen said they never had that growing up it was after Industry came

. George Olemaun said thank you for coming and listening to everybody I know we had all these other p eople doing all these research they have always wanted to know how long we have been here and how do we use our land offshore use occupancy and that is one thing that the Interior needs to understand is that we have been here since we can remember and even beyond that but our use

occupa ncy is online, offshore up to two hundred miles at least because at times in the past with our oral history they have gone quite a ways down up to three days of going down to get what they need , y ou will see the wooden ship when you cross town over by the lagoon those were what they built and used so you can imagine they used those to go out at least two hundred miles out and it took them a week I remember and we would wait for them, it is like the conditions they had to deal with was they had to tie everyt hing down and they were bailing water all the time and at6 | P a g e

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that time basically was to go out and get the walrus for the community they took
three or four boats that went out but they came back I don’t remember of anyone not coming back in the open water or in the summer ice free and that is what that they had to do up to the fifties but the use and occupancy is not just here , it is all the way to Canada as you know we’re same people, same language, same value, same culture

. Dorothy Edwardsen said same f amily

. George Olemaun said same family but the Canadians they have the (inaudible) is what they have the tribal ’ s out there the I nugialiuts they model the Nort h Slope but they did better whenever anything comes up

, they have to deal with them any issues

or anything that they need to address the subsistence or the environment they have
to work with them as Co

- management which we don’t have we have AEWC but that is another one as with other issues we had to fight for to prove we were right nobody has taken to consideration, well with the scientist they finally realized that our traditional knowledge is better than scientific because it is proven through
millennium through observation so that is one issue that with the co

- management if there is a way to addres s that so that were partners if you want to be partners with your statement and we should be true partners in that we have co

- management with that and then with Industry again with the Canadians side when the Industries comes they have to work with the loc al corporations instead of using others from outside that is there stipulations they work with the local corporations and the Canadian standards as you know are different then our government standards and the Canadian government acknowledge that they abuse d the tribal natives whereas our government states that but yet they have not stated that we did wrong but that is the mentality we deal with but that is the way it is, there is the other one the Law of the sea before the government can say yes we own this and that again with our peoples knowledge of offshore with use and occupancy and what we subsisted off the land and off water as I stated yesterday were Tagiuqmuit were ocean people that is our sustenance and we will fight to the end to keep that and if t here is a way to work together and in regards to Law of the sea I understand that has to be done our government cant (inaudible) more than two hundred miles if the issue comes up, we have our oral history and that is something you need to understand or get something from our books and tapes that we have and something you need is we have our maps that show off

– shore, we don’t have them here but I think the North Slope Borough has these, BLM might have them but also with use and o ccupancy of our land it happ ens everywhere, where traditional land use, we go camping every year, spring summer fall were seasoning, especially with co

- management if that could be done it would benefit you and benefit us because I have stated and Thomas
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they say they do they have the constitution stating that they should but because of politics or whatever then they don’t necessarily help with the issues that we need to
address. Tommy Beaudreau said yes I think someone put t hat really well in the hearing we
had this afternoon saying she found it ironic that the State complaints about how
the F ederal government does not t reat them as a partner yet local communities on the North Slope aren’t treated as partners by the State I had never heard anyone quite put that way before but that drove point home for me

. Doreen Adams Ahgeak said were always outnumbered in that area we on ly have one representative.

Dorothy Edwardsen said I think there is a group of tribes that are encouraging regional leadership to see what it would take to become our own State, I remember one time that was brought up to the State level they were listeni ng to a point and then we brought that up, the leaders brought that up and their ears opened up because they saw monies going down

. Marjorie Solomon said most of things they get they use for Anchorage and our schools suffer, our housing is really bad, we h ave no housing for our families

. Dorothy Edwardsen said there are multiple families in one household, in my household there is at least four families

. Marjorie Solomon said
and mine

. Dorothy Edwardsen said same with Doreen Lampe, Housing shortage

. George O lemaun said with the Industry since they started at Prudhoe Bay Dead

Horse I understand they have made over a trillion and if you look at trillion and you
break it down I think 1 % is like two hundred million or two or three billion and that is just 1% of what they made in thirty years, thirty plus year it goes out and the State takes their share and our Federal Government takes a share and again we have to fight for ours, it is our land and our resource again I would like to say it is our
resource but a by te on that pipeline and make them understand

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Dorothy Edwardsen said do you know anything about NPRA? Tommy Beaudreau
said so in my role as Acting Assistance Secretary for Mine and Minerals I’m responsible for BLM and NPRA as well

. Dorothy Edwardsen said do you know how much we would get from NPRA if you ever control NPRA

. Tommy Beaudreau said no it does through the State

. Dorothy Edwardsen said because they don’t trust the people up here that kind of slaps our leaders in the face

. Marjorie Solomon said we don’t ever see anything

. Dorothy Edwardsen said yes the tribe doesn’t get nothing

. Marjorie Solomon said any of the NPRA

. Dorothy Edwardsen said yes, a lot of our Native allotments are in the NPRA but nothing goes to the tribes , t he city gets it. Thomas Olemaun said the City and the North Slope Borough gets it and then they share with the three other outline villages but as a Federal Lands and Federal government we don’t get a dime but yet we have all these issues that are happenin g8 | P a g e

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housing, health

. Dorothy Edwardsen said they get stripped of that land first and they say you’re not going to get any of it, it is going to these other organizations, the State Organizations

. Thomas Olemaun said that is why we have legislatures and it h as been like that for so long but in order to betterment or get all parties together is t o see what can we
overcome that. Tommy Beaudreau said in the revenue issue it is a r eal interesting one Secretary Joule testified in the Senate just yesterday coming from State slate Louisiana they talk a lot about revenue sharing and Senator Murkowski from Alaska talks a lot about revenue sharing and they are really talking about revenue sharing with the States and we were just talking this morning and I talked with Secretary Salazar about this in the past and little bit with Sec retary Joule about the concept of revenue sharing and the notion that especially on the North Slope it is not like Louisiana and Gulf of Mexico where you grow up t here you go to LSU you become controlling engineer you have a job for life owning a gas industries that is what their ent ire economy is centered around Offshore Oil & Gas down there , u p here you have something different you have establish people the way of life that is connected to
th e ocean but connected to the ocean based on subsistence, based on hunting and fishing and then from the outside you have Oil companies coming in and doing exploration activity and it is the residence of the North Slope who are bearing a lot
of the Environm ental risk and with that activity but not having a direct economic benefit like you w ould someplace in Louisiana so that is a very complicated issue but one that I can tell you I have already started talking with the Secretary about and say look just in th e matter of fairness lets think about the people who are potentially affected by this activity and what benefit if any they get from it I don’t have any answer for that now but let me just say I’m quite sympathetic to the point,

Dorothy Edwardsen said I think the Government heard that we were going to the United Nations it is because of the way the Government treats us because we know revenue sharing we do as Arctic Slope Regional Corporation as the seven nine we share with the other eleven corporation s of our profit , we know about revenue sharing we don’t keep it to ourselves and what the State does to us is robbery , they gave us Native Allotments we don’t even have mineral rights, we don’t have sub surface rights they give us the top soil and we don ’t even get those certificates for those Native Allotments unless a person dies maybe you will get a certificate for that Native Allotment, some of us are still waiting, some of our parents did not even apply because they did not believe that the Governmen t owned the land to begin
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Tommy Bea udreau said why would you apply? Dorothy Edwardsen said yes why would you apply for something you owned so there was a lot of people that did not apply for the Native Allotment because they did not believe in it be cause they thought where ever they want it was their own, it was communityowned

. Doreen Lampe said Native Village of Barrow is the largest tribe with over three thousand membership and this is a small office for our membership for our three thousand
member s and they provide food bank service they provide the Child in need of Aid service and about two to three years ago they had the NALEMP grant where they cleaned out the Eielson Lagoon when the military came and created NARL and just dumped all their fifty five gallon drums out in the Eielson Lagoon and there was tons and tons of steel metal that they removed with that little barge sitting out behind the Native Village of Barrow office and that little barge pulled out all that debris left by the (inaudible) military construction wise, they even did the Valley of ten thousand drums when they created the airport and hospital on that side so we have cleaned up quite a bit where Government and contractors came in develop left a big
mess and were still there

. Do rothy Edwardsen said were still cleaning up

. Doreen Lampe said we care for our land, we care for our ocean, we care for our Environment and we need some revenue sharing to continue for the work that we’ve done, we really need that revenue sharing going dir ectly Federal to Federal never mind State

. Dorothy Edwardsen said we have pieces of pipe this tall sticking out of the ground in certain
areas which makes it a real hazard for snow machine’s all along the tundra

. Thomas Olemaun said BLM ’ s property

. Tommy Beaudreau said I’m aware of that

issue too

. George Olemaun said with BLM that is another thing that they do, they do it left and right issue permits for guides basically to go anywhere regardless of whose land it is
we went down to Kotzebue area we have a ll these federal reserve’s from the BLM and they have guides that come up and just take over the land built what they need as a business and were limited to because of the funding resources or for that matter have an airplane to take them out there, it wa s done in the past they used our people as guides for Polar bear hunting I know in the Canadian side they did the same but again it seems they seem to randomly give permits whenever they want to and then the planes come in especially with Anaktuvuk pass wh ere the people just drop by to get a plane load of trophies they don’t have the meat their suppose to they don’t do it all the time they just leave it and if we do that they say it’s want and waste then our people are fined

. Dorothy Edwardsen said our peo ple are put in jail. George Olemaun said that kind of leads as Department of Interior BIA your trust responsibility, were told were works
of the Government I don’t know why that is

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work it out like that the government di d

. George Olemaun said but that is the mentality they have that they have in D.C and anywhere else in State , they say don’t worry about them they don’t need money they live off the land and things like that but again like I mentioned last night with the co st of gas it is here but we can’t get it here we have to get when it comes back wherever it comes from California or Washington where it is refined, whereas even our corporation has a refinery and they say the cost will be the same I don’t understand that or how that would be and the Industry makes their I worked out there they make their topping plant they make Gas and Diesel whatever they need for their use but It is not regulated because it is just for their use but again it is theirs and it is not share d to anyone else just for their use in the past we tried to get our government, pass government or State governors to at least put an and they have agreed to it put a million to two million container with their diesel surplus at least that for the home he ating that has never come about the diesel with my understanding in Anaktuvuk for home heating is fifteen dollars a gallon and their gas is nine sixty a gallon so their if they want to go out it limits how far they can go or where they can go whereas in t he past because they were nomads more like as we were they settle where we are I guess were limited because of western standards it is good but again I can’t understand why we have to pay $6.70 a gallon and then $9.00 in Anaktuvuk, the villages vary and i t does not matter what part you are and I understand Kaktovik pays less I don’t know
how

. Dorothy Edwardsen said they are subsidized by their Corporation

. , Doreen Adams Ahgeak said that is subsidized by the borough and then given to the community and
the corporation (inaudible)George Olemaun said and then the fuel is subsidized by the borough because of the high cost in the villages were lucky in Barrow we have natural gas

. Dorothy Edwardsen said we had to fight for that one too from the
government

. George Olemaun said yes, that we have enough in Barrow to last us a hundred years Okay we build a Gas line where they propose the power plant at
Wala k pa to electrical and power to Atqasuk and Wainwright which will help but with natural gas just as well built a g as line to Atqasuk and Wainwright and if there was a way to address cost of living, cost of fuel it would go a long ways

. Marjorie Solomon said I think it is the transportation because we have one plane Alaska

air lines and Era their both one it cost nine hundr ed dollars to go to Kaktovi k tha t is
what three hundred miles how far can you go with the road with nine hundred
dollars

. Tommy Beaudreau said I seen the cost of fuel is the impact on whether it be for
travel I even heard it affects the hunts when you got to buy fuel and how far out you can go but also heating as well

. Marjorie Solomon said there was no caribou last

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said and Shell

. Tommy Beaudreau said with the helicopter

. Dorothy Edwardsen said nobody regulates them when they are up here, nobody watches over them

. Thomas Olemaun said nobody regulates air traffic, ships

. Dorothy Edwardsen said what we can recommend for Industry but recommend is a loose word I could tell my kid I recommend that you come home at ten a.m. I mean what kind of rule is that there is

no consequences

. Tommy Beaudreau said that is the process were engaged in now so that report was it was really recommendations to the Secretary about In dustry it wasn’t us recommending to industry and then there was recommendations direct to
Industries and Recommendations to the Secretary with respect to Government oversight and so the process were engaged in now is taking that and changing those
from rec ommendations to the Secretary to rule some standards on Industry

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Doreen Adams Ahgeak said from all that we heard yesterday and the concerns we brought out and we were listening to you on the radio it came to mind that capacity not only in Housing but ou r own local water plant, electrical plant the capacity can barely fill our community and there was an notice just recently like a couple of weeks ago that we need to start conserving water in order to keep it going for only
Barrow residents and I think tha t giving us only five year sequence of trying to plan it does not take five years until something happens we know that assembly might see it but it has to go through a long process and if you’re going to come up here and there is no housing and you know th at , the stores can only fill for our community and barely get good produce once in a while and it runs out just like that, were growing, all ethnicities here are growing, regardless not just us as tribe all other ethnicities are coming our way and they a re still coming were still going to keep growing that is what is that I would request that you help us the municipal government, the tribal government a nd the local government to help build on what capacity we can use if you’re going to come in here like T ommy said you are going to
be here no matter what , I want to comment on Doreen Lampe’s comment but it just slipped my mind

. Tommy Beaudreau said she made a lot of good comments

. Doreen Adams Ahgeak said and about Marie Carroll’s comment about being here a nd that is what we forgot and that was a good point that you involve the community because we might forget something I really believe you need to visualize how long you will be here instead of bringing these plans we need a long term

. Tommy Beaudreau said it suppose to be project by project

. Dorothy Edwardsen said Wainwright felt it last summer where they really had to ration on water because there was so much Industry coming in they were using up their water

. Doreen Adams Ahgeak said what I was going to
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Wainwright

. Doreen Lampe said it is not them it is the Coast Guard

. Doreen Adams Ahgeak said yes I know, how much do you know about the Coast Guard and their plans but we heard that from her and it is not documented , it is not on black and white to say and to prove that they are going to be here we just heard only words, we need a full detail report if you’re going to go do a scenario in Wainwright you might as well involve Barrow and all the coastal villages including the inland villages that need jobs also, I mean who is first to respond in any incident, we are, the

gov ernment waits for us well they wait for the commanding call of who so ever
needs to make that decision

. B ut were not going to stand here and wait for something to say we need help were the ones that are just going to go, were just going to do it as a comm unity so you need to prepare and to help prepare our people and not only the Government and the contractors that hire the people , I can’t recall what the number was for the MMO’s and the spill response the team that is under ACS (Alaska Clean Seas) I mean they need to involve all the communities and people that were in that system there now in their forties and fifties and their not as capable of going in the water as they were back then but they are part of the team, the training needs to continue I mean we have young talented people and their crying for jobs and I just want to repeat that our low income residence are the ones that really want to do things but there is really no jobs out there and they are always told to go to Ilisagvik to get training an d were seeing more and mo re of that and they depend on our scholarships that are provided by our Corporations and the services really the Government should be giving more If you’re going to be here you need to look at our numbers and how much were going to grow

. Our Ipalook school is going to be smaller in under ten years the capacity is just going to keep growing and growing we need to recognized those you need to foresee the long term statistics that they have in their class and then the Borough beca use the Borough is the ones that has the water plans they contract out to the Cooperative , the Coop that is local and in all the other villages there is no Coop only Barrow has that so the Borough controls how much they spent in their homes or they set the dollar amount for the diesel and the gas but they leave that to the Corporations for delivering the service so that is a additional cost to the residence if the North Slope Borough can just sell it their selves, they might not be able to make money bu t yet they want to create jobs for the Corporation which most intends to hire local people and I think that is what was missing is capacity not only in Housing (inaudible ) Tommy Beaudreau said that is really useful to hear

. Thomas Olemaun said what is

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incident for 2012, Mark Fefmire said not from the incident i t is a lot of inputs coming from investigations that inputs things that went wrong, how to find things that went right and how to find things that we would like to see, basically I’ m here to listen to what your all saying too, Assistant Secretary Cottrell he is the one responsible for the work were going through now the one piece of information that you all probably aren’t aware is that we did finish a successful test on Shells containment system in March

. Dorothy Edwardsen said where at

. Mark Fefmire said in Puget Sound but it was not a calm night there was about five to si x foot seas and it performed very well

. Dorothy Edwardsen said what about the current

. Mark Fefmire said the current in the sound was pretty healthy

. Dorothy Edwardsen said when you s ay healthy what do you mean ? Mark Fefmire said a knot and half to four through the test

. Thomas Olemaun said we double that up here we go eight to twelve knots

. Dorothy Edwardsen said sometimes it goes twenty

. Mark Fefmire said and during the test it did reverse on us and they handled it very well

. Thomas Olemaun said but yet your Coast Guard facility is there, I mean the nearest Coast Guard from over there is eight hundred some miles, based and when your speaking about the Arctic going eighty miles Northwest of Wainwright, west of Wainwright and anything happens the nearest Coast Guard base is Kodiak and these are the stipulations we have to go through because there is no harbor up here, our harbor is just for small boats u p here that is a big issue too in all the villages I could just go on and on but the nearest Coast Guard is eight hundred miles if anything happens we have the Choppers

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Dorothy Edwardsen said they would not be able to land on the gravel anyways the
Cho ppers

. Thomas Olemaun said yes, that is another issue too, I will let everyone

comment too , w e have our minutes and we will pass them on to you

. Mark Fefmire said this is never a speak now or forever hold your peace type conversation this is just that were up here I want to spent some time together and you will always have access to us and you can always provide input to us either formally inviting or just pick up the phone and contact us

. Doreen Lampe said we would like to invite President Obama and his staff to Barrow

, we need Arctic strategy and he would say there is no Arctic strategy Barrow, Mark Fefmire said that would be something, I agree

. Dorothy Edwardsen said he would come and see our houses and say you’re not even in Mexico, Mark Fefmire said that would be something

. Doreen Lampe said Native Village of Barrow cordially invites President Obama

. Mark Fefmire s aid and we’ll get Secretary Joule up here

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don’t know, people up here they just come up and they want to put up a tent in the parking lot it come to that because they know something is coming up here and they want to be here when things start, as it was done in the past people just come up get off the plane and they have anywhere to go but they know what is coming up and they apply their skills to it and they become rich, we have terrorist and things like
that I’ m sure they go to where the action is and right now it is going to be here in the future and also with NPRA they have the two Wells on the other side of Alpine on NPRA so that proves what they have known the Oil is here they just need to keep going west towards Barrow again it is just hat were being affected especially Nuiqsut and we know Anaktuvuk because the cost of living the guides and the pipelines that are upcoming roads that go into Umiat because it will divert the caribous that they rely on in re gards to that maybe that is something that as trust responsibility , they been talking about the people, they been talking about the reindeer herd inland maybe that is what they need to do up there so they keep the area, the herd or the reindeer within th e area

. Dorothy Edwardsen said it makes it hard for them because the Federal Government built a Wildlife refuge right there in their back yard

. George Olemaun said it is right
there

. Thomas Olemaun said any kind of refuge or anything like that it is harde r for the individual for harvesting because it is restricted, anything like that up here on the North Slope, nationwide whatever refuge they built they put so much stipulations , a s for future plans on your topics it is nice to meet and nice to have

Coast G uard here too everybody on the same page because we have questions and answers, we pass it to you and you pass to SUTI or Alaska Growth Office or what not I mean these are issues and yet they will be here, and it is nice you come to Barrow
it be better if you came every other month but future planning with North Slope is huge and each community is different, each organization is different but we as a Federal recognized tribes it is good that you came to hear our comments and it is on
record with our minute s, we will email you the minutes and more comments before
the deadline

. Dorothy Edwardsen said somebody was talking about the (inaudible) shouldn’t be telling the Industries to be good neighbors

. Thomas Olemaun said good neighbor policy

. Dorothy Edwardsen said yes but you got to be more than good neighbors and they shouldn’t have to be asked I m ean it is not in our cultural, i f we saw a Drill out there floating around loose we would not just watch it and let it float away we would try to help so we expect the same thing from Industry, we don’t want them to come up here and leave a big footprint like they did for Exxon Valdez, they took no responsibility, we want responsible drilling if they are going to drill and we don’t want just to leav e without leaving something behind like a Tribal College that is struggling with Infrastructure and a training center for responders

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Solomon said a recreational center for our kids

. Doreen Adams Ahgeak said when doyou expect for your report to be done, make sure you set a time and date so we can review it we might see what you ’ r e missing

. Tommy Beaudreau said yes absolutely we will be in touch when it is close to being ready

. George Olemaun said because of ANCSA our tribal are No and Void, we don’ t have land but we deal with all the issues if we want land we have to go to our local corporation to get land but we have land here with all that federal land right here in town and it is empty now

. Thomas Olemaun has been trying this because if it is fed eral land it should go to the tribals instead of how it is now with ANCSA where it goes to the land manager more less our local corporations

. Dorothy Edwardsen said State corporations

. George Olemaun said if something should be given we tried building a yo uth facility and we still have to get land or buy the land or have an agreement with our local corporation it should not be because this is the Native town site

. Dorothy Edwardsen said somewhere the trust responsibility failed us

. George Olemaun said yes we do have jurisdiction with our children and in the past we had jurisdiction to people that came to town we would tell them to get back on the plane and get out of town we don’t need you here, some of the villages now exercises and that is something I und erstand is there and whatever rights they have you just can’t tell people to leave but we did in the past what we called the blue
ticket and sent them out of town it was done and it has been done within the other
communities within the State the tribes k now their rights which we do yet again it is because of the government and then the Borough, the ANCSA all those putting Federal and State regulations but that kind of makes it hard for us to do what we need to do if something comes up ,regardless if somet hing comes up we have done in the past the planes get in the water and ships go wrong in the past we have always help that is who we are and that is what we do we just don’t stand by if there is help needed we will help but yet again now we need help and that is your trust responsibility to help us to get the things that we need

. Dorothy Edwardsen said when Congress forced ANCSA on us we voted against ANCSA in our region it was forced upon us and BIA did not do their trust responsibility to speak with us or to give us other options and I think they set up Corporations to failed but they forgot who taught them.

6. A djournment: Doreen Adams Ahgeak moved to adjourn, seconded by Dorothy Edwardsen to adjourn 3:30p.m.

Adopted this _____ day of _____________, 2013 with a quorum present with a vote of _____YES and _____ NO.

ATTEST:

____________________________ _________________________ Thomas Olemaun, President Mary Sage, Secretar