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New DOI Appointments Include Native American Law Vets
Law360 (May 3, 2021, 9:41 PM EDT) An environmental and Native American law professor, a former Indian Affairs official in the Obama administration and an attorney with ties to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland are among the Biden administration s latest wave of appointments to the department.
Sarah Krakoff, a University of Colorado Law School professor, was named deputy solicitor for parks and wildlife at the DOI, the department announced Friday. Krakoff s academic work focuses on Indian law and environmental law, and she formerly directed the University of Colorado Law School s American Indian Law Clinic. She also founded and directed the Acequia Assistance Project, which gives free representation.
Extension of Applications of Permit to Drill (APDs)
Lease suspension
Applications for royalty relief
Notably, the March Memo specifically states that the above list is not exhaustive. And, to the extent approval is discretionary (i.e., extensions of APDs), we suspect an oil and gas lessee or operator will have difficultly receiving approval for those above-listed actions.
Although the March Memo is not addressed to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) serves as a technical advisor to the BIA and is required to approve certain actions that impact Indian tribal and individual trust and restricted lands. The March Memo fails to make this distinction, thus raising the question whether the March Memo also excludes actions taken with respect to Indian tribal and individual trust and restricted lands.
Published: Friday, April 30, 2021
Michael Connor. Photo credit: U.S. Department of Interior/Flickr
President Biden has selected Michael Connor as his nominee for Department of Defense s assistant secretary of the Army for civil works. Connor, pictured at the far right at a 2015 service event, previously served as the Interior Department s deputy secretary. U.S. Department of Interior/Flickr
President Biden s pick this week to oversee the Army s vast natural resources operation would bring to the job decades of water experience at the Interior Department and on Capitol Hill.
The president tapped Michael Connor to be the Department of Defense s assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, which oversees the Army Corps of Engineers and its huge network of dams and other projects.
Tribal Clinic Develops Toolkit to Help Indigenous Peoples Assert Their Rights April 28, 2021
Professor Angela R. Riley directs UCLA Law’s Native Nations Law and Policy Center and UCLA’s dual-degree program in Law and American Indian Studies.
For the first time, leaders across Indian country have a toolkit available to them to address Indigenous and human rights through tribal lawmaking that supports and implements the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The “Tribal Implementation Toolkit” was developed by students and faculty in UCLA School of Law’s Tribal Legal Development Clinic, in collaboration with students and attorneys at the University of Colorado Law School and the Native American Rights Fund, or NARF. It is available for free to the public and stands as an invaluable resource for tribal leaders and communities to implement the key aims of the 2007 U.N. declaration. The Declaration is a far-reaching, aspirational document recogn
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