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Factors supporting a Finding of No Significance
The Bureau of Indian Affairs, Warm
Springs Agency proposes conduct a sal
vage of umber and to rehabilitate the
burned area resulting from the escaped
fire in the HeHe Butte area of the Warm
Spiings Reservation.
Based on the Final Project Assess
ment, HeHe Timber Salvage (as
addended) dated April 5th, 2000 as well
as public comments gathered during the
period of October 13 through November
Warm Springs to receive $600,000 Grant to
existing Wastewater treatment plant
At a national gathering of American
Indian community leaders the U. S.
Department of Agriculture announced
nearly $5.5 Million in grants and low
interest loans to six Indian Country
drinking water and sanitary sewer
projects in five states, including Or
egon. A $600,000 grant to improve an
existing wastewater treatment plant at
the Warm Spring community, in Warm
Springs.
The proposed project will construct
a .87 million-gallon-per-day treatment
plant that would include preliminary
treatment and pumping, secondary
treatment with activated sludge and
disinfecting with ultraviolet light. The
project is expected to cost $3,030,000,
of which $2,430,000 is expected to be
leveraged from other loans and a grants
not yet awarded.
The community is currently served
by two wastewater treatment facilities.
The largest is the Warm Springs waste
water treatment facility. This facility
uses three lagoons that cover 9.5 acres.
The facility treats about 380,000 gal
Ions per day of wastewater and at times
exceeds discharge limits proposed by
the Environmental Protection Agency.
The majority of funds announced
come from a $ 1 2 million safe and clean
water grant fund for Indian Country
fund created by Congress in October
1999, specifically for tribal communi
ties. The fund resulted from an amend
ment to a spending bill offered by U.S.
Senators Pete Domenict (R-NM),
Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Jeff
Binggaman (D-NM). The funds are
targeted to federally recognized tribes
and communities with majority Indian
populations that are severely distressed
economically, with very high unem
ployment rates, and critical water-related
human and environmental health
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one of the 19 Pueblo Tribes to assemble together for a historical performance at the Gathering of
Mexico. It is the first time the 19 Pueblo Tribes have orchestrated a public performance. More on the
24, 1999, we have determined that the
proposed action does not pose a signifi
cantimpactuponthehumanenvironment. Preparation of an Environmental Impact
Statement as cited under Section 102
(2)(c) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 (42 USC 4223 (2)(c)
is therefore not required.
Factors supporting a Finding of No
Significance:
Install a four-strand barbed wire fence
problems.
"This much needed fund is a first,"
said John Romano, coordinator of the
Clinton Administration's WATER
2000 safe drinking water initiative.
"After years of requests by the Presi
dent, the Congress to its credit has for
the first time given USDA-Rural De
velopment a source off funding dedi
cated specifically to American Indian
Community needs."
Five of the recipients are tribes,; the
sixth, a non-tribal utility company
(Randall Community Water in South
Dakota) will serve a customer base that
is more than 50 percent Indian. The six
include;
ARIZONA $450,000 grant to the
Havasupai Tribe, located in a major
side canyon of the Grand Canyon, for a
drinking water project. This very re-
Museum
requesting
artifacts
The Museum At Warm Springs is
considering the purchase of materi
als for the permanent collections.
The Museum is requesting artifacts,
photographs and documents related
to the members of The Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs to be brought
to the Museum. Every item w ill be
tagged with the owner's information
and an in-coming loan form com
pleted so that people have a record of
what they leave for consideration.
The Museum will evaluate materials
this summer for possible purchase. If
you have any questions, call the
Museum Curator. Eraina Palmer or
Director Marv Ellen Conawav at
(541) 553-3331.
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News from the Warm Springs Indian Reservation
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around the 400-foot buffer along Badger
Creek after harvest activities are com
pleted. The fencing will occur on the east
side of H wy . 26 and the west side of Hwy.
25. upstream to the B-100 road.
No encroachment into 400-foot
buffer to retrieve salvage material will be
allowed.
Salvageable trees within 100 feet of
the edge of the 400-foot buffer will be
marked with orange paint as leave trees.
mote, poor tribe has been Hooded out on
a regular basis, and has lived with seri
ous drinking water quality problems.
ARIZONA $350,000 Grant for a
drinking water project to the Spider
Mound Community Utility Associa
tion of the Hope Reservation where
USDA Rural Development and the In
dian Health Service have been financ
ing major water and sewer work over
the past three years.
MAINE $500,000 grant to the
Passamaquoddy Tribe for a wastewater
treatment project. The funds will lever
age $55,000 from the Indian Health
Service, and $200,000 from the tribe.
This is the second USDA investment in
the tribe in two years.
MINNESOTA $600,000 grant,
Reception set
This year The Museum At Warm
Springs is presenting "Artist In
2000", the 7th Annual Tribal Mem
ber Art Exhibit. The exhibition of
this year's art will begin with an
afternoon reception June 11, 2000 2
to 5 p.m. Open to the public and will
run through September 3, 2000.
The Tribal Member Art Exhibit
consists of an open ended array of art
created by Warm Springs tribal
members 18 years old and over. All
entries w ill compete for two awards.
Judge's Choice a prestigious award
given to the most outstanding art
submitted as selected by the judge.
The Honorable Mention Awards go
the judge's selection of outstanding
work. The art submitted to the exhibit
that are for sale will have the op
portunity to be selected as Timber-
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in the final project assessment of
This will help limitthe temptation toenter
this area tor a large diameter tree. Enter
ing the "no harvest" buffer zone was a
problem during last winterspring
blowdown salvage.
Cultural sites within harvest units
will be buffered. The size of the buffer
will depend on the size of the site. The
buffers will be marked by the Cultural
Resources staff.
Additional large-diameter snags
improve
combined with a $70,000 low interest
USDA Rural Development loan, to the
Bois Forte Band of Chippewas for ex
tending both water and sewer lines to
remove an existing health hazard.
OREGON $600,000 Grant to the
Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon, for
wastewater improvements. This will
eventually leverage $2.43 million in
other funding for a $3,030,000 project.
SOUTH DAKOTA $300,000
tribal set-aside grant for the Randall
Community Water District, combined
with another $300,000 in grant and a
$ 1 .3 million low interest loan from other
USDA sources. More than 50 percent
of the customers of this drinking water
system will be American Indians on the
Yankton Sioux Reservation.
for June 11
line Purchase Awards. These pur
chases are made by Richard L.
Kohnstamm to provide financial in
centive to artists to develop and
pursue their art work. They will be
for resale in the Timberline Lodge
gift shop. The awards will be pre
sented to the artists at the opening
reception.
Please take note, the reception
date has been changed from June 3rd
to June 1 1th and the reception will be
in the afternoon unlike past evening
receptions.
The Museum At Warm Springs,
2181 Hwy. 26 is open 362 days a
year from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. from
Memorial Day through Labor Day.
For information on tours, workshops
or the Art Exhibit call (54 1 ) 553-333 1
and ask for Eraina Palmer andor
Jewell Minnick.
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A new gaining t'acilily tit Madias
represents the best possible answer
for the Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs, as the Tribe faces projected
revenue .shortfalls in 2003 and
beyond.
The Tribal Council has set May
23 for a vole of the people on a
proposal to expand the Tribe's
gaining program by developing a new
casino on tribal trust land in the
industrial area just north of Madras.
The proposal is aimed at adding
an average of some $9 million a year
to the Tribe's revenue base to meet
future costs of schools, security and
other programs, and to secure Tribal
sovereignly for future generations.
Tribal officials say the Madras
proposal is based entirely on
economic gain and on creating
economic stability for the benefit of
the Tribe.
Current projections of Tribal
revenue over the next several years
show fiscal problems beginning as
early as 2001, when it's estimated
total Tribal expenditures to meet
current services will exceed
anticipated revenues by $3.2 million.
A spending cut would be required
in that year to balance the budget,
and in any year thereafter where a
shortfall is experienced.
By 2002, the shortfall of revenue
compared to spending needs will rise
to $7 million and remain at the level
annually on average through 2007,
the last year of current forecasts.
Annual total Tribal revenues are
estimated to decline from $29.6
million in the year 2000 to $21.67
million in 2002, and reach a low over
the next eight years of $21.3 million
in 2006.
Declining Tribal revenues from
,timbcr and hydro power are the cause
for the developing shortfalls. Timber
revenues will be reduced by 20 to
maintain sustained harvest levels
after 2002.
The Madras proposal represents a
short-term response to the Tribe's
outside the Natural Resource Zone, but
within the bum area, will have to be left in
order to meet IRMP standards requiring
two snags per acre. Original location for
leave settings such as in and around
openings or along rimrocks will apply.
Additional large downed logs may be
required to meet IRMP standards within
the resource zone as well.
Cultural plant areas will be desig
nated and protected in accordance with
Culture and Heritage Committee rec
ommendations. All roads used for access or haul will
be ripped and seeded following harvest
activity.
Skid trails will be designated before
loggingactivitiesoccur. The soil scientists
will be consulted on the location of all
skid trails.
Designated skid trails will be clearly
marked .for use in harvest operations.
Low-impact shovel loaders will be
used in moving logs todesignated trails in
areas where skidders will be confined.
All skid trails will be ripped and
The Spilyay Tymoo (Coyote News)
newspaper is having an art contest in
search of a new look for the new
millennium
Prizes will be awarded to the winner,
which include:
One night at Kah-Nee-Ta, a shirt & cap donated by KNT
$100.00 cash donated by Warm Springs Forest Products
$10 gas donated by DMJ Automotive
$50 cash & gift certificate donated by Warm Springs
Market
and various other prizes.
The deadline for entries is May 30, 2000
Rules:
1. All rights to winning picture will belong to Spilyay
Tymoo.
2. Artwork must pertain to Spilyay Tymoo (Coyote
News).
3. Size of artwork is limited to 1 1x13 (horizontal).
4. Contest is open to the readership of Spilyay Tymoo.
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revenue concerns. An intermediate
facility at Madias as seen as a fust
step toward a long-term strategy of
assuring adequate annual Tribal
revenues through expanded gaming.
A Madras facility would
supplement the existing Indian Head
casino at Kah-Ncc-Ta Resort, w hich
serves primarily as an amenity to
guests and is expected to maintain
modest cash flow of $2.5 million to
$3.5 million a year.
F:or the long term, a Warm Springs
casino in the Mid-Columbia River
area is the goal. This facility is
estimated to bring the Tribe net annual
cash several limes greater than either
Madias or the existing Indian Head
casino at Kah-Ncc-Ta Resort.
Oregon Governor Kitzhaber last
year rejected the Tribe's plan for a
Mid-Columbia casino at Cascade
Locks. However, the Tribe plans to
pursue this goal with a new
administration in Salem.
Short-term options studied for
meeting Tribal revenue shortfalls
included a new facility on the
reservation. According to estimates
made for the Tribe by an independent
economics firm, a new gaming
facility anywhere on the reservation
would produce only about half the
net annual cash projected for a Madras
casino, and potentially fail to close
the gap on revenue shortfalls.
Tribal officials also say the
investment necessary to develop a
new casino on the reservation would
be nearly as much as a Madras facility.
An intermediate facility is likely to
cost about $25 million to build for
cither option. Site development at
Madras may bring some added costs,
estimated at several million dollars.
Gaming expansion at Madras is
expected to capture the growing
Central Oregon market along with
increases from drive-by traffic on
Highways 26 and 97. With approval
of the people and cooperation from
local city and county officials, a
Madras facility could be open in two
years, Tribal leaders predict.
HeHe Butte
seeded following harvest activity.
All disturbed lands (landings, skid
trails and ripped roads) will be rehabili
tated. A nati ve-dominantseed mix will be
utilized in the rehabilitation effort and
will includcbluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho
fescue and Sandberg's bluegrass. Straw
mulch should be applied to skid trails,
landings and rehabilitated road surfaces
that have been seeded to help establish.
All BMP's (best management prac
tices) and standards of the Integrated
Resources Management Plan and Envi
ronmental Assessment-Forested Area
adopted June 26, 1992 will be applied to
protect the water and fisheries resources
of the reservation.
This decision will be implemented
after the expiration of 30 calendar days of
the signing of this document.
Approval:
Gordon E. Cannon
Superintendent
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Warm Springs Agency
April 24, 2000
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