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Financing for Indian Tribes: As we examine existing barriers and increase access to credit and capital development for Utah Tribes and their members on reservation lands, UDIA continues to participate in Sovereign Lending workshops held throughout the year and is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Sovereign Lending Task Force.
Partnerships • • • • •
Salt Lake Organizing Committee for 190 temporary housing units which have been designated for Utah tribes after use at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Utah Museum of Natural History, resulting in a Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act grant from the National Park Service to fund a project coordinator to resolve state and federal NAGPRA issues. Native American 2002 Foundation, including participation at an open house and other events. Census Bureau to encourage participation in Census 2000. Utah Tribes for sponsorship of a successful reception at the Sundance Resort for American film producers, directors, and actors.
Legislative Initiatives • • • • • •
S.B. 89 Native American Coordinating Board: Adds a representative of the Department of Public Safety to the coordinating board. H.B. 262 Navajo Trust Fund Amendments: Extends the sunset date for the Navajo Trust Fund and other technical amendments. S.B. 62 Wildlife Resources Code—Applications to Indians: Defines terms and authorizes the governor to enter into certain hunting, fishing, and trapping agreements with Indian Tribes. S.B. 181 Income Taxes—Application to the Uintah and Ouray Reservation: Addresses revenue and taxation related to the boundaries of the reservation, provides for retrospective operation, dependent enactment, and makes technical amendments. S.B. 213 Motor and Special Fuel Tax—Application to the Uintah and Ouray Reservation: Addresses required pass-through of motor fuel taxes, provides for refunds related to impacts of motor or special fuels, dependent enactment, and technical amendments. Public Education Appropriation—Improving Dropout Rates for Minorities: Retained on the governor’s priority list and a $200,000 appropriation was approved.
Mission The Division of Indian Affairs develops programs to allow Indian citizens an opportunity to share in the progress of Utah, promote an atmosphere in which Indian citizens are provided alternatives so that they may choose for themselves the kinds of lives they will live, both socially and economically, and promote programs to help the tribes and Indian communities find and implement solutions to their community problems.
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