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Hopi Letter to Secretary of the Interior
An excerpt:
On September 4, 2013, the Hopi Tribe (“Tribe”) wrote to you expressing its serious concerns regarding the Department oflnterior’s (“DOl”) decision to join with the Salt River Project (“SRP”) and others to develop and endorse a proposed Altemative (“SRP- Altemative”) to the pending EPA rulemaking that would set stricter air quality standards and require the Best Available Retrofit Technology (“BART”) for the Navajo Generating Station (“NOS”), a coalfired power plant located on the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona. In our letter, we also informed you that the Tribe would be hosting DOl attomey, Letty Belin, for a meeting (on September 5, 2013) that she had requested in order to discuss the proposed SRP-Altemative to the EPA rule, including the Tribe’s exclusion from the process. As a result of the Tribe’s meeting with Ms. Belin, the Tribe now has greater concerns regarding DOl’s explanations for its decision to exclude the Hopi Tribe from the process and its support of the proposed SRPAlternative. Rather than satisfying the concerns expressed by the Tribe, Ms. Belin’s explanation of the basis for DOl’s decisions merely senred to underscore DOI’s disregard of the Tribe’s interests as a major stakeholder in this matter and its violation of the trust responsibility it owes to the Hopi Tribe.
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