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Spi ly ay Tym oo
User's fee set on Deschutes
Madras Jr. High students Mary Calico and Todd Beamer raised
the most money fo r student council use through donations
deposited in jars with the name o f each student on it. Eight
students were selected from the various guide rooms to compete.
The eight students were able to raise $53.40.
Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewczyk
Telecommunications project
studied for Warm Springs
The Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs have been
awarded a grant by the U.S.
National Telecommunications
Information Administration to
study communication possibil
ities on the reservation.
A grant of $30,000 was made
to study the feasibility of public
radio and public television as a
means of communication on
and fo r the reservation.
Education, public entertain
ment and preservation of tribal
languages and cultures will be
the main objectives of the
mediums to be studied. Both
AM and FM radio transmis
sion will be considered, as well
as high-power and low-power
television stations.
The study will also include
the possible association with
the public radio and television
systems of the State of Ortegon
under Oregon Educational
Public Broadcasting system.
OEPBS is planning to move a
television station from Salem
to Bend within the next year or
two.
The study will include radio,
icable, satellite receiption,
microwave and television of
very high frequency (VHF) and
ultra high frequency (UHF).
It is estimated that the study
will take six to eight months.
Bill Marsh, public relations
counsel for the Confederated
Tribes, will be the project
coordinator.
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Each spring the Deschutes
River, from Pelton Reregula
ting Dam to the Columbia
River, becomes a freeway for
the many people who use the
river for recreational pruposes.
On some days hundreds of
floaters put to the river to enjoy
the scenic beauty of the canyon
and rapids. Because of the
increase if users on the river it
became apparent to the Parks
and Recreation Division of the
State of Oregon and other
agencies that there would have
to be a way to set and enforce a
plan for the management and
use of the river. A “users fee”
was recmmended and hearings
were held at Eugene, Madras,
The Dalles and Portland earlier
this year.
T he “ u se rs f e e “ was
recognized as a method which
could be used to help finance
the regulation of present laws
for the Deschutes River Scenic
Waterway. It could pay for
persons to enforce the present
laws and to enforce new laws
that were described as “much
needed” to maintain the balanc
needed’’ to m aintain the
balance of the river and its
envirionment.
The recommendations were
adopted and became a part of
OAR 736. Division 4. The issue
w hich ra ise d th e m o st
questions for public concern
was the actual fee to be charged
to the user of the river. For
many people the idea of having
to pay to use the river seemed
out of the question but
follow ing the hearings it
became an accepted plan.
Th revenue gained by selling
of permits on a daily basis and
on a yearly basis will be used to
help the interested agencies
defray the cost increase of
policing the area. The final cost
of a daily user’s fee was set at
$1.75 per person per day.
Earlier, it was suggested a
$ 12.00 seasoal pass (the season
b e in g fro m th e se c o n d
S a tu r d a y o f A p ril a n d
including the last Sunday in
October) would be sold. The
price remains th same but it is
applied to a yearly pass. Any
person except Tribal members
using the river at anytime must
obtain a pass to be on the
surface of the river.
The Boater Pass program is
experimental in nature and th
experimental innature and
Commission is aware there will
be a need for changes as it
progresses.
Persons who own land
abutting those portions of th
abutting those portions of the
Deschutes River designated as
pare of the scenie waterway can
receive annual passes issued by
the State Parks and Recrea
tion. To receive a pass people
who qualify must apply for it
by written request to the State
Parks Administrator.
Members of the Confede
rated Tribes of Warm Springs
will not be required to apply or*
pay for a pass.
Committee needs input
There will be an Aerial scheduling meetings during the
S p ra y in g E n v iro n m e n ta l week of March 8, the Timber
Assessment meeting March 3, committee would appreciate
1982 at the Agency Longhouse. committee input.
Prior to the meeting, the
Timber committee chairman
Timber Committee would like Louie Pitt urges all tribal
to compile the concerns of the members to attend the Aerial
different committees, resource Spraying meeting. Dr. Witt
people and the general public recently lectured in Bend and
before Dr. James Witt speaks gave a very “informative,
at the meeting.
objective picture of what is
If any com m ittees are happening,” said Pitt.
Council journeys to nation’s capitol
With the weather in Warm
Springs relatively mild for the
dead of winter, Warm Springs'
T ribal Council members,
s e c re ta r y /tre a s u r e r R alph
Minnick, fiscal manager Doug
McClelland, controller Jim
Sizemore and tribal
atto rn ey D ennis K arnopp
traveled to Washington, D.C.
only to be faced with freezing,
blustery winds and bone
chilling weather to meet with
various D.C. officials and to
attend the annual NCAI
Executive Council meeting.
Minnick, McClelland and
Sizemore arrived earlier than
Council members and spent
their first morning in the offices
o f E d w a rd s A s s o c ia te s ,
review ing and am ending
position papers and supporting
documents for discussions to
be held later in the week on the
I n t e r i o r D e p a r t m e n t ’s
investigation into the timber
administrative fees. (The 10%)
monies. They also discussed the
tim ber administrative fees
reimbursement policy and
avenues of remedy with BIA’s
forestry division head George
Sm ith. The three W arm
S p r in g s r e p r e s e n ta tiv e s
presented to Smith a booklet
which thoroughly documented
the history of the timber
administrative fees program
and its economic benefit to the
tribes.
During an informal meeting
w ith D e p u ty A s s is ta n t
Secretary of Policy Roy
Sampsel and deputy assistant
secretary for operations John
Fritz, the timber administrative
fee situation was once again
discussed as well as the
p ro b le m w ith th e BIA
allocation of IMPL account
monies. Warm Springs is
opposed to the across-the- benefits confered by the present
board reduction of all IM PL administrative fee policy.
accounts an alternative to the
Following discussion of the
situation were opposed to the 10% monies, talk turned to the
d i r e c t o r o f F i n a n c i a l disposition of the IM PL
Management Chuck Hughes. accounts. Tom Stangl of
T h e co u n cil was also program development and
informed that Warm Springs implementation in the financial
has received a $50,000 grant for management office indicated
the Warm Springs Tribal that the department of the
Museum from the Administra Interior had acted too quickly
in its d e te rm in a tio n to
tion for Native Americans.
The council also met with uniformly cut back all IMPL
Senators Mark Hatfield and account nationwide by 50%.
Bob Packwood. Both were He said that such a decision
presented with red cedar root would not be implemented and
baskets filled with Kah-Nee-Ta that his offices were presently
matches. Senator Hatfield investigating alternative means
talked about the Indian Tax of allocating the proper tribal
Status Act, the resolution of shares among IMPL accounts.
Renovation of the Warm
the IM P L a c c o u n t, the
possibilities of securing salmon Springs tribal jail was also
e n h a n c e m e n t m oney in discussed with Stangl. It was
upcom ing a p p ro p ria tio n s “generally acknowledged” that
legislation and other legislative the jail is in very poor shape
matters of immediate interest. and must be repaired. Given
The Council told Hatfield of the present budget situation, it
their concern over the current is considered nearly impossible
investigation into the timber to build a new jail. However, it
a d m i n s t r a t i v e fe e s a n d was indicated major renova
re q u e s te d th e S e n a to r ’s tion may be feasible, and that
possible assistance if it is such an alternative will be
explored. Also, BIA property
needed in the future.
While Council was attending personnel will begin to examine
the NCAI meeting, tribal the current jail facility.
D elbert F ran k , H arold
administrators met to review
the recent Supreme Court Cülpus and Mike Clements
decision upholding the rights of went to Capitol Hill to meet
Indian Tribes to impose taxes. with Oregon congressman Roy
In a meeting with several W y d en to d is c u s s th e
BIA officials, the Council Northwest Power Bill and the
explored the implications of implementation of its fishery
the repeal of the timber provisions.
* Following three very busy
administrative fee reimburse
ment policy and the powers of days in the nation’s capítol, the
the Inspector General in issuing C o u n c il a n d e n to u ra g e
a report on such policy. boarded their plane and headed
Although it was determined for home. It was the general
that the Inspector General’s concensus that their trip was
well worth the time and effort
decision is final and binding, and
that the council had
the BIA officials were fully accomplished
many of the
convinced of the economic things they had s?t jqut. t.o dp..,