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B-201885 1 (1981-01-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjdi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 B- 2o1885 CED1-7 January 26, 1981 The Honorable James A. McClure Chairman, Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: The purpose of this letter is to confirm agreements reached with Senate Appropriations Committee staff, con- cerning the Committee's request on page 42 of Committee Report No. 96-985, Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 1981. As you know, the Com- 05-Oqj Cottee requested that we conduct an investigation of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes E2 federally supported activities, including an examination of how these funds are spent, oter sources of income, and how effectively the organization benefits all tribal energy resource interests. On December 8,-1980, we advised Appropriations Committee 'staff that our preliminary efforts indicated that the real concern involving energy development on Indian reservations did not appear to be whether Federal funding of CERT was proper. Instead, the more important question appeared to be whether the Congress should consider new alternatives for the development of energy resources on Indian reservations. Presently, neither the Bureau of Indian Affairs nor any other Federal agency has provided or appears capable of providing the assistance tribes need to develop their resources. As a result, 25 tribes banded together to form CERT in an attempt to fill this void. The Appropriations Committee staff agreed that the most important issues were the identification of (1) deficiencies in Federal efforts to assist the tribes in developing their energy related resources, and (2) alternatives to these Federal efforts. We were therefore requested to do a thorough review of this area and the role CERT plays or should play. In this

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