GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY

Government Issues

COVID-19 legislation and implementation; legislation, including flexibility for funding received.; Legislation to address land into trust requests; Indian water rights settlement legislation; Water infrastructure and management legislation, particularly as it affects the Colorado River. S. 3308.; Indian Child Welfare Act; H.R. 3160/S.2912, the Blackwater Trading Post Land Transfer Act; FY2021 appropriations for section 105(l) leases with the Interior Department; H.R. 5502, tribal online sports betting clarification act; H.R.6237, PRC for Native Veterans Act; monitor tribal water rights legislation and impacts on Arizona tribal water settlements; advocate for a tribal broadband fund.; Water infrastructure and marketing legislation, particularly as it affects the Gila River Indian Community's water settlement.; 105(l) leases and statutory language and funding affecting the Gila River Indian Community.; Implementation of tribal provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act; FY2022 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations; mandatory funding for Section 105(l) leases under the Indian Self Determination and Education Assistance Act; advocate for tribal infrastructure fund and other tribal provisions in larger congressional infrastructure effort; tribal provisions in the Reauthorization of Violence Against Women Act, H.R. 1620; Blackwater Trading Post Land Transfer Act, H.R.478/S.371.; Blackwater Trading Post legislation, 105(l) leases, Casa Blanca grade expansion, appropriations.; General lobbying activities; Blackwater Trading Post legislation, water conservation, APRA flexibility, Casa Blanca Grade Expansion, 105(l) leases and other appropriations.; U.S. Supreme Court decision in Castro-Huerta v. Oklahoma; Extension of funding for Emergency Rental Assistance Program; Flexibility for Treasury Department's use of COVID relief funds; Colorado River drought.

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